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ADOJTIONS TO THE VICTORIAN SEDGF FLORA 

 'CYPERACI/Ei 



By J H Wn.Ui, National Herbn'hmt .a' Victoria 



In his /-faro ti/ Victoria (19301. A. I. "(%wajl recognize: U5 species 01 

 Cy pi 1*1 ■'{•:! Sitnc th&t fliiW, nam name HiaitgAf have IjePII adopted and 

 J5 artdiooiuf irtcejir* nubh^hed for Hie Stale — largely the outcome u| 

 r^vi.tuniai .studies undertaken on tl'.e d'lucah genet a Cyftcrm and 5rirf)\ts by 

 S. T. ticket J Brisbane) ami in Cnrc.r by R. Nelmcs* (London). There «> II 

 remain eleven indigenous species and five naturalized aliens of the. family 

 which do not seen) ever 10 have been recorded iut Victoria. 1'licse bring 

 the total number of sedyc* in tlic Sl*T€ 10 !5(j &r>ec«et, jmd the following 

 arrangement of new records conforms :o the. generic fic'.jueoce in Ew«in*> 

 h'ivra. .-VII collections now cited have been lodged in lite National Het barium 

 o' Virion*, and recent discoveries which extend die known range of a U\ 

 legalized sedges are also recorded as a matter of iutertsi 



i. *cyperus cowrstus Vujii, mm 



Brighton— abundant in gutters along Durrani St re-el {J- H. H Vfo. 

 14/3/1952). 



T>i« collection was tKlfirimtted b\ S- T. Bla\c, l?/3/5£ Imioduccd from 

 Soulli \5ricft, diis pestiferous species is already riHfurViwd in Wi'fitem 

 Australia, South Australia and N-.av bouth Walts, and has been noted in 

 Victoria at place-. a* widely ieouiated Si* Lhmbuola and LtikjgA Entrance. l\ 

 closely rescmbics C- rotuuditx, fyuj tackf, tlt<: root tubers and has a much 

 denser inflorescence of numerous very narrow ajnkchrts. 



2. cypous nrrvu.osus <;o^i/W) $ j\ ahikc, wo. 



T.xke Kattah. Kulkvne National Fwfcsl — growing amongst &". ifVntitr)niult/S 

 (Mil. £. Rotnsay, 1/2/W53) 



This delicate link annual (to 4 in. high) was rrcviously known only 

 1*1 in tropical Australia. S. T\ Blake identified the collection, IQ/4/53. 



[C pyi/m&us Rcttb., 1773, has been known hunt Viciona only by a frngmtml 

 which F. Mueller had collected HccideniaHy with clump of C (K\'tl:Hf}n) 

 bffvtloiins Oil the Oven 1 , River (22/2/185.5). W. J. Ztmmer re-di^'vivered the 

 MlfXiC? at Mildura ou 7/5/19.35, au«l more recently 1. 17/5/1953* Mrs. E. 

 Kamsay has lotind it at Coli?,nau— on the Murray "River" e?w 01 Mn^iu^i 

 Tbtf lit * 1c annual, of u>«ilKvort-likc aKuect, has 3 v-'idc diitrihutiun tlsrouyhont 

 ailar.d Australia, and ex:t 4 uds to uuuiy uarls ut tlic Old World (A-siu, Africa 

 and biirope). 



C tflobojus Ml \7W), had been included on the Viclnrian |>la.u list solely 

 on the basirt of two old collections "snriuijs on »he Lower Hume Hive.v, with 

 C /flrjfl.r and ".n company with two orh.cr sye^ics <"*, the Upi;er Hume 

 Ktvcr" — both made by K. ^f^KJ]er m Jaimai'y 1S74- T)ie Imi'our oi re 

 e*tahlijiiiig Ibis 9 p<?cie< for VSrioiis j?oes to Raieigb A Rlacl*. who found 

 it *'in marshy ])lace. c " at. Varkandandah, 10/4/1941. 



C. wholoicies R.Br.. 1810, remains as a sing)e record ior tlw State, \>'\i. 

 "•^Pfinqs Ot) rhc l*f>pcr Hnme Kivcf, 3-4D00 1 ', where it fft) collected hv 

 b' - Muofk-r in January 1874; it is probable that trWis material attpaJIy CAioe 

 from the Kosciusko (N.5.W.) tide oi trie Upj&r Murray. 'I lie Inroad, very 

 flar, ^hinin^ ^pikelets wirh rlos^-sct KisTre-c^loured glume? are U:irmMviU<diU\J 



T S£v Notes on AunIt&):;ui Cyf-cniccs." (1 7) in finfa -ffcv, 5i>t. BJ-. fa, Nu. II 

 (tyi7). 49, Ng. »5 (1538); Si, Wo, 5 I19^l»; SI, No. 11 U9-KO; 5%, N». 7 ftQtjU 

 •>V. ^a. 8 <imi^| wtfl ?*, Ku. 2 OW}. Alsu "A Muii^ranh of Ok C^iiis Biet/flum/ in 

 ■VtiSnAPa ?i»id KVw Zealand", /.c. 50. Wu 12. S8-132 (19J'5i. 



*.*>'V A KeiJ *o *Irt AristtJtl&n Si'tviti vt Cc/.^ f C?\*!9ctt?}" »\ t'rw t.iun A<v. 

 /.«»./., .Session 155, l!>4?-.i: 277-2S5 UP44> 



