Ficinia.] cYPERACE® (Clarke), 245 
Several of the succeeding Ficinias oa bi little from this species; and the 
ieonyms cited may belong partly to 
14. F. bergiana (Kunth, Enum. ii. 254) ; stems 10-15 in. long, 
capillary (i.e. slenderer than those of F. fil/ ‘ormis) , very numerous ; 
leaf-sheaths scarious, pale-brown, uppermost wrapped round the stem 
nut 3-3 the length ‘of the glume, ellipsoid, nearly twice as long as 
broad ; m argin n of gynophore “nearly entire ; otherwise as ae * agai mis, 
Behind. Pd tristachya, Boeck. in Linnea, Xxxvil, 60 par 
Sour AFRICA: Sai anges Sieber MOL! Harvey, 347! 
oast Reaion: Ca near Cape , Burchell, 433! Simons Bay 
sh al i, Wie Berg, 1000" ft. , Kuntze, 252! Warsehar Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 
The nut of this os much resembles that of F. tristachya to which species 
Boeckeler reduces it ; but de ree has spikelets much larger than those of 
F. filiformis and F. bergia 
/ 15. F. stolonifera (Boeck. in Linnea, xxxvii. 60); stolons long, 
covered by striate pale-brown lamomalate scales; stems and leave 
rather stouter than those of F. jiliformis ; spikelets up to 4—} © by Lin 
Margin of gynophore nearly entire; otherwise as F. jilifor ais, 
Sehrad. F. filiformis, var. contorta, Nees in Linnea, x. Ti: 
SourH Arrica: rea laine fs nity ! Zeyher : 
Coast Reaion: Ca ape Wes 501! Riversdale Div. ; 
between Little Vet River bes amet tril Burchell, 6896! 
wo ReGion: Somerset Div.; on the Bosch Berg, 4000 ft., MacOwan, 
Eastern Region: Natal; Van Reenens Pass, 5600 ft., Kuntze, 235! 
The examples of Burchell, — and Wright show the characteristic 
stolons. It ig possible that many of these Ficinias flower before they throw 
stolons, and it is possible that, in some ae where the plants had stolons, the 
lector did not collect them. It is not certain but that species, the a 
of which in our herbaria nowhere present stolons, may produce them sometimes 
6. F. ip ade a ees in Linnea, ix. 292); leaf-sheaths 
mbriated ; spikelets 2 by 2 in.; nut ellipsoid, longer than broad ; 
gynophore margin Ba entire ; otherwise as F, ji/ iformis, Schrad. 
mnea, X, 175 ; Kunth, Siri: ii, 252 partly; Boeck. in Linnea, 
Xxxvii. 60. FF, involuta, Drége in Linnea, xx. 248. Scirpus 
tristachyos, Rottb. Dener. et Ie, 48, 13, fi. 4; Linn. f. Suppl. 103 ; 
Thunb. Prod. 17; Fl. Cap. ed. Schulte, 97.  Isolepie tristachya, 
Ben. oy Schultes, ‘Sy yst. Veg. il. “rr not - Mant. 64 ; Nees in Linnea, 
iis AFRICA: without locali si ! : 
ity, Si Pappe, 106! 
Coast Region: —_ Div. + Mount ins near Cle “fom 2000 ft., r= ash 
ee! bs pe 
oogte, 
“ever, 1721 Worceste r Div. ; See sountains, 1600 ft., Bolus, 40741 
versdale Div. ; near the Getting oe Burchell, 6706 pa: 
This differs from F, filiformis and F. bergiana in : larger spikelets ; it differs 
- stolonifera in that none of the examples in the Herbarium have stolons, 
hat the nut is considerably lo than fk 
