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vriih. the stamens fallen away. F. Mueller, with more perfect specimens, 

 male and female, before liim, referred it to Fanimm on account of the 

 smooth hardened fruiting glume and palea. He unfortunately, however, 

 overlooked the absolutely dioecious character of the plant, which, as 

 well as the capitate inflorescence, appears to me to refer it to Spinifex, 

 notwithstanding the apparent discrepancy arising from the small size 

 of the heads of spikes or spikelets, and from the rhachis or pedicels 

 being produced only into very short points, which, however, are the 

 true representatives of the long spines so prominent in the common 

 maritime species of Spinifex. 



The troublesome prickly Graminere, known to Austrahan explorers 

 by the name of Spinifex, belong to the very different genus TrioJia. 



— G. Bentham. 



^ Plate 1243, male plant.— Fig. 1. Two spitelets on a common pedicel, produced 

 into a very short point. 2. 1 spikeiet with its four glumes and t^vo paleas, the pedicel 

 produce,d jnto a short point. 



^^^T^ 124-i, female plant.— Fig. 1. Spikeiet with three outer empty glumes, the 

 ^rd wnth a narrow palea, the 4th enveloping the flower. 2. Flowering glume em- 

 bracing the palea. 3. A bract at the time of flowering. 4. Bracts and glumes of the 

 fruiting spikeiet. 



Plate 1245 



RUMEX NEGLECTUS, T. Kirh 



POLTGOXACE^. 



B. neglectus, T, Kirh, in Trans. N. Z. Inst. ix. (1876) 493. Herbnla 



1-3-pollicaris perennis ; foliis rosulatis petiolatis oblongis v. oyali- 

 oblongis crenato-undulatis obtusis basi truncatis r. in petiolum plus 

 minus angustatis, canle e basi dense florifero v- racemo supeme in- 

 terrupto, pedicellis s^pius recurvis, floribus bermapbroditis, periantbio 

 campanulato fructu basi incrassato segmentis ejusdem exterioribus 

 tubo ^nilongis late oblono-o- rel quadnito-ovatis obtnsis, interioribus 

 paullo longioribus lanceolatis acutiusculis dorao calliferis deinde 

 utrinque breviter 1-2-dentatis. 



Hab. Cook Strait, 1^'orth Island, T. Kirh. Mr. Kirk cites sbingly 



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