Victorian Plants. 473 



2004. Stems cylindrical. 



Comparatively tall, light- or greyish-green, of rather soft 

 texture; stems smooth, somewhat hollow; leaves linear, 

 almost smooth, channelled -folded ; floral leaves un- 

 developed ; spikelets very small, ovate, crowded into a 

 spike-like panicle ; floral bracts pointed ; fruit-cover 

 plan-convex, ovate-roundish, venular-streaked, suddenly 

 contracted into the short apex, slightly ciliolated. 



C. tereticaulis. 



Stems triangular 2005 



2005. Fruit-cover ciliolar-rough, upwards suddenly con- 



tracted. 



Often very tall and robust; leaves much elongated, broad- 

 linear ; floral leaves never well developed ; spikelets very 

 small, mostly ellipsoid -ovate and slightly pointed, crowded 

 into an often very long and contracted panicle, with the 

 staminate flowers at the summit of each; floral bracts 

 often dull-brownish, ovate, slightly pointed; fruit-cover 

 ovate, much compressed, venular-streaked. 



C. panicnlata. 



Fruit-cover glabrous, upwards gradually contracted. 



Comparatively tall ; leaves very long, broadish-linear, rough 

 at the edges ; floral leaves undeveloped ; spikelets very 

 small, crowded into a rather long very contracted panicle, 

 with the staminate flowers at the summit of each; floral 

 bracts tender-membranous, quite pale ; fruit-cover slender, 

 glabrous, venular-streaked, slightly compressed. 



C. declinata. 



2006. Spikelet one only. 



Alpine, quite dwarf; stems very thin; leaves threadlike- 

 linear; lowest floral leaf short, erect, almost continuing 

 the stem ; spikelet minute, with only two or few flowers; 

 floral bracts much pointed; fruit-cover upwards very 

 slender ; rhacheole minute, setular ; fruit trigonous- 

 ellipsoid, pointed. C. acicularis. 



Spikelets few or several ... ... ... ... 2007 



2007. Spikelets all sessile, unless the lowest 2008 



Spikelets mostly or all conspicuously stalked ... 2012 



