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"Lofty and Bugle Ranges, F. Mueller," in Fl. Aust., vii., 

 581. I have not been able to find any specimen bearing the 

 bristle, either in my own collection or in the Tate or Menzel 

 Herbaria. Professor Ewart, in reducing D. montana to a 

 variety of D. quadriseta, says (Vict. Nat., xxiv., 13), "These 

 species are both very variable and run into one another at all 

 points." 



C. minor (Benth.) combin. nov. (Deyeuxia minor, 

 Benth.). A new record for South Australia. I have only 

 one specimen, collected at Mount Lofty in December, 1908, 

 by H. Griffith. A slender grass; panicle 4 cm. long, slightly 

 lobed ; outer glumes broad, subequal, the lower 4 mm. long, 

 the upper one a litle longer; flowering glume broad, 3 mm. 

 long, 4-toothed, scabrous, especially on the nerves; awn 

 attached near the middle of the flowering glume and shortly 

 exserted, hairs of the callus rather long, especially behind the 

 palea, but no bristle. Our specimen agrees with one from 

 Southport, Tasmania, kindly given me by Professor Ewart. 



Var. densa, (Benth.) combin. nov. (Deyeuxia densa, 

 Benth.). Blackwood (H. Griffith) ; Crafers (Tate Herbarium); 

 quoted in the Fl. Aust. , vii., 582, for "Lofty Ranges and 

 Onkaparinga, F. Mueller." Bentham describes the panicle 

 as "dense and spike-like or slightly lobed, 2 to 3 in. long." 

 A specimen without locality lent me by Prof. Ewart has the 

 panicle 5 cm. long and rather dense, but our own specimens 

 have a longer and more lobed panicle, 8-16 cm. in length. 

 Outer glumes subequal, 4^-5 mm. long; flowering glume rather 

 narrow, scabrous, 3t?-4 mm. long, the awn attached a little 

 above the middle and shortly exserted; the bristle hairy and 

 half as long as the palea; grain fusiform, 2 mm. long. The 

 4 teeth of the flowering glume are less conspicuous in the 

 Tasmanian specimen than in ours. If- it were proposed to 

 retain this grass as a species in Calamagrostis, a new specific 

 name would apparently be required, because C . densa, Vasey 

 in Coult. Bot. Gaz., xvi., 147 (1891), a Californian grass, 

 would be able to claim priority over C. densa (Benth.) 

 Maiden et Betche, Cens. N.S. Wales, pi. 21 (1916). " 



Cyperaceae. 



Carex Bichenoviana, Boott. Paradise (H. W. Andrew). 

 Style-branches sometimes 2 instead of 3. Mr. R. A. Black 

 records (Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas., 1916, p. 145) the re-discovery 

 of this plant in a damp situation on Mount Direction, near 

 Hobart. 



Cyperus tenellus, L. Monbulla scrub, S.E. (Dist. T; 

 H. W. Andrew). 



