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curved for the reception of the solitary fruit. Stamens unseen 

 as yet by me. Style two to three lines long, thin and bristle- 

 like. Stigmas three, hairy, a little shorter than the style. 

 Seed vessel two-thirds of a line long. 



This species approaches Schoenus tmchyearpum, but differs 

 from it in its extraordinary dwarfness, shortened peduncle, 

 shorter bracts below the involucre, longer and more mem- 

 braneous floral bracts, less wrinkled fruit, and no more than a 

 single fertile flower, in which last characteristic it differs from 

 all its congeners hitherto known. 



Battarrea Muelleri. Kalchbr. (M.S.) ; F. v. M., loc. cit., p. 106. 



(Fungi). 



"Whitish ; inner peridium campanulo-mitrate ; stalk solid, 

 very long, chaffy, and scaly, thickened by degrees above ; the 

 chaff-like scales linear lanceolate directed downwards, almost 

 imbricate ; spores globose, warty, of a rusty colour, with short 

 filaments, almost spiral, placed between the spores. 



In the neighbourhood of Spencer's Grulf — 0. Tepper. 



A noteworthy species of a remarkable genus. 



Stem nine or ten times longer than the breadth of the cap. 

 External peridium hitherto unknown. Spores •004mm. across. 



