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inner bracts few, colorless and transparent ; pistils in 

 two rows, somewhat coherent ; stigma elongated, hardly 

 broader than the style ; fruits ellipsoid, their base stalk- 

 like. C. aristata. 



1911. Floral leaves long-pointed. 



Stems very thin, rather short ; leaves extremely narrow, 

 forming tufts ; floral leaves two, broadish, clasping and 

 then suddenly filiform-narrowed ; spikelet broad ; flowers 

 -few or several ; inner bracts few, colorless, supporting 

 nearly as many stamens and pistils ; fruits generally few, 

 their base stalk-like. C. fascicularis. 



Floral leaves short-pointed. 



Stems very thin, quite short ; leaves extremely narrow, 

 forming tufts, much shorter than the stems ; floral leaves 

 two, changed into bracts, broadish, clasping, acuminated ; 

 spikelet broad ; flowers several or many ; inner bracts 

 few, colorless, supporting only partially the stamens and 

 pistils, often blunt and torn ; fruits usually several, 

 through torsion strongly connected ; ripe seeds obovate- 

 ellipsoid, their base stalk-like. C. strigosa, 



Z.EFYRODXA. 



1912. Rudimentary leaves reflexed. 



Somewhat tall ; branches weak, sometimes flexuous ; leaves 

 very minute, occasionally deficient ; flower-fasiclesi distant 

 in a simple spike ; bracts pale-brownish, partly crowded, 

 but without any spicular arrangement ; staminate and 

 pistillate flowers on distinct plants ; sepals of the stami- 

 nate flowers shorter than the petals j style obliterated ; 

 fruit trigonous. L. internipta. 



Rudimentary leaves erect .... ... ... ... 1913 



1913. Stems distinctly branched. 



Somewhat tall, often lax, sometimes quite bent down ; 

 branches slightly rough ; leaves very minute, their clasping 

 stalks often close ; bracts partly approximated, but with- 

 out any spicular arrangement ; flowers in small panicles ; 

 staminate and pistillate flowers on the same plant ; sepals 

 of the staminate flowers shorter than the petals, three each, 

 gradually much pointed, style obliterated ; fruit trigonous. 



L. Tasmanica. 

 Stems almost branchless. 



Somewhat tall ; leaves minute, appressed ; flowers in small 

 often contracted panicles ; staminate and pistillate flowers 

 on the same plant ; sepals somewhat longer than the petals, 

 all acute ; fruit trigonous. Ii. 



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