S£l io5« b * r ] vvit.i.is. .unions t* f/Miwiw M& fu-> ia 



is1utiu>, thorn "* run. to mm.):: die <cinnna >nike may be uholl) |>ty -. 

 wholly li-Lfiiilc, »cm;de at i he top, or m.dc witIi occasional Female flowers here 

 slid TOrfi- ncryv»j<»n*l(y 'iic four unpenvtu-.t ^nlke* arc entire!)' male. 6uvh 

 varianoniv arv not correlattd v.". lit any ♦;thvr ditienncii iti uto*s rnufpftvliUii 

 lud f hfefrfl mi IteMtarlou in merging C. .cmnfiitmi UjUlft C Cikf>phiU> | 



13. 5CH&SWS R.UlTANb .//fat A, J85H. 



Uarwon River near OecJong (/ tyTBtebrftlift' li'iUtw. 1883). 



TV siffglji VictoHan .simple, although with only immature inflorescences. 

 was ao.^r-Mely determined by F Mueller, it stems to have Iw* en(u*eU 

 overlooked by levari und other writers on our sedges. Otherwise this aquaiic 

 species is known from Tasmania ("in stagnant brackish water" — le&f C. 

 Stuart) and South Australia (Kangaroo Island and Encounter Bay). The 

 nlanieiiiuus. vciy l&qg leaf lauuine and loiitf c'rutfYy feitiwpa* ^ r ^ distinctive' 



14 SCHU-NUS TESQUORUM / $L 0fw*, 1922. 



<joroke Road about 17 jniies 5. rtf Nihil — 'Jimp depression at southern 

 fringe of Utile Desert (J. H WW&, Sejtt. 1948) ; Hca«hnKrc, near Portland 

 if. £. mirf P, /J. FftUfe, Dec 1952— Oct. 1^-<x TW?ib- A- Cliff Ifca.it-; «- 

 liolc, No 1 ;. .^SSl* 55 inclusive) 



Type locality c-f this South Australian specks was "fftliJI &f?twvtj Mittwt 

 hnrr rmrt" Mowit Mchff.vrc in fttw;fzivrry f/i;. \l\p I'n'.h/rw't bo'Cf/', but IlO 

 Colkcloi <>r date fc mentioned, il was later found a.i Fineouiuer Bu> This 

 reference to "the Victorian border" ^ l cms to have escaped the notice of 

 F.wart and other recent botanists in our State. S. fcsqiwrum resembles a tall 

 lobttit condition ot i?i PpOfj&i Reem. & Softtdt. but differ* m havir-s vi- 

 licrianth bristles alu! neriVetly smooth, white trigonous! Outs, 



15. SCHtENUS BRF.VICULMTK Berth.. }H7S [incl. S. ft/fatf F. Muell, 

 WJt, 



Grcv*r Ocerm Road, 2 miles- H (*J Point AtWU (B^i Jffd M-ft. &\ Marks, 

 Mar. 1947) ; tflack R*nAc ( 5 miles W of Cherry Pool on the Upper Gleitelg 

 (/ H. W\U\$, 2/3/1943,1; Big lXscrt. on South Aujti'atiau b^rdec ahaul 

 18 miles K o; Scrvfccton (7. h' W*th*, 17/9/1V48) ; near Cdtial>n-ni SptJHfe. 

 tittle De^rt & miles S r.i l.^wloH {J, H Wiflis> 11/9/1^9). 



A low. (len?;ely fctrftrf Tiut-iunuin« -;ed«e, with nidd(;u iitflorcyccnce* a,^ iit 

 the acinic $. cotyftrot:^* S. T; I'lnke whicli it closely reseinhleh. It js widel.v 

 distributed ri'.nirjsi ilirnu^hout the Little TV.sorl (m at least 11 of the 

 20 Parches), and is also abundant m 'he Jlig' DcsM't on i,mdv l^eaihlaiui. 

 iiow It .'ta<l escaped dctactiou dunny a century of boram'cal expiorattou in 

 lhi< Start '-, ctstonishnig. West Victorian example* are identical with th« 

 South A tsjulhn .V tspftm' V Muell .'ron Att. I ohy TCi.n^e, K^ngai-Go 

 Isliiu?, V^cickc and F.yre Fcninsuh» Mr C. A. Gardner, Covenicnent 

 Wotaojst o: Western Australia, reports f)0/?i/\9M}) ;ui follows an a ISiji 

 D^sci six-eimen which I etJ.Mint'.od io him for examination: 



The iiiffctmeo oi 5! tepffri V Much, irorw 18 mdes nonh of Service- 

 toil. Vic , ?g»*CC2 very wWl with our specimen of .$". brevicuhnis Benth. 

 coIVcxed hv i:»rumnii>ud. I would <av that thev were the samc. 



G. K-ukcnthal |ifl Report Sf-n Nm> tt,uj)i Vca 4?. 9<t (June 1938) 1 

 made .5', Uppeii a variety oi S- hyrvifuhnit, 



f-S* salyptmtui S. T. Blake, W41, is recorded only by the type collediou 

 (Mt. Buifalo, tt'fl S. T. Ulakc. 1933) ; but it is widely disirtbutcd aroand 

 the cdjres of sphagnum bogs throntjltoui the Y'\tomn yl|,»s < e.D Lake Mur.- 

 tain, Baw Baws, Ml Ske;»e. Mt Uuller, Mt Buffalo, Bsffong High PUir.s), 

 and on M t Kosciusko, N.S.W. — in A. 1J. Costin's *' Hlanta^o nmtllcri — 

 Sfilfitta ausiruhLiica Alhancc". A collection front E<ho Fh'it Lake Mountain 

 </, }I WitHx, 25/I/1M48) sbow^ sUmifta' Owtfnts about 7 mm long, a«d 



