^56 Plants Collected in Capricornic Western Australia. 



This remarkably handsome species had been already in 

 1882 collected on the Gascoyne-River by the Hon. J. 

 Forrest during his trigonometric surveys there. All the 

 specimens obtained are devoid of roots and radical leaves. 



In vain have I endeavoured to identify this Cyperus 

 with any of the species described by Kunth^ Steudel, 

 Boeckeler and Clarke. But this task is difficult as regards 

 a genus containing several hundred well-marked species, 

 irrespective of their varieties. Our plant is however 

 traceable to a position near the tropical American C. 

 viscosus ; but the spikelets are not capitately clustered, nor 

 are the florets closely imbricated ; while the glumes are 

 more scarious, evidently viscid, stronger nerved and more 

 prominently keeled, the fruits moreover being somewhat 

 longer, more sticky, less pyriform, nor covered by a grey 

 pellicle. 



Setaria verticillata, Beauvois. 



Panicum pauciflorum, R,. Brown. The fastigiate variety. 

 This grass was obtained near Short's Bange by J. Macd. 

 Stuart. 



Eriachne obtusa, B. Brown. 



Eriachne aristidea, F. v. M. Specimens with leaves 

 somewhat hairy outside. 



Eriachne giauca, B. Brown. The leaves on the inner 

 side towards the base sometimes hairy. 



Eriachne ovata, Nees. A small-flowered variety was 

 found by Mr. H. Stuart Carey on the Fortescue-River. 



Triodia Mitch ell i, Bentham. A variety with contracted 

 panicles and with particularly large spikelets, the middle 

 lobe of the flowering glume attaining a length of fully 

 a quarter of an inch. Only the inflorescence in Mr. King's 

 collection, but this as well of pale as of purplish-darkish 

 colour. 



Pappophorum commune, F. v. M. 



Eragrostis speciosa, Steudel. Grain ovate, three or 

 four times shorter than the flowering glume. Mr. Ch. 

 Winneke brought a dwarf form of this grass from Eyre's 

 Creek. 



Eragrostis eriopoda, Bentham. Collected also near 

 Charlotte- Waters by Mr. E. Giles, and between the Lachlan- 

 and Darling- Rivers by Mr. R. Bennett. 



Eragrostis tenella, Beauvois. 



Chloris scariosa, F. v. M. 



Astrebla pectinata, F. v. M. 



