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the collectors’ notes, suggests* a weaker plant than the 
other, but the material is insufficient to give an adequate 
idea of the appearance of the plant. 
Some species of Euphrasia are known to parasitise the 
roots of other plants, but there is no evidence that E. bella 
is parasitising the Ilelichri/sum with which it is so closely 
associated. 
Family CYPERACEAE. 
C ' 1 / per as disjunct us C. B. Clarke in Kew Bull. Add. 
Ser. viii. 8 (1908). 
McPherson Range, February 9th, 1912, C. T. White; 
January, 1919, C. T. White; Roberts Plateau, Shirley; 
Lamington National Park, in antarctic beech forest 
( ftothofagus , etc.), 3,700-3,800 feet, . common, May 23rd, 
1937, Blake 12972 (usually forming large green patches; 
rhizome creeping, stems solitary, spikelets blackish or dark 
brown) ; Upper East Canungra Creek, in sand between 
boulders in creek bed, 2,000-4,000 feet, June 3rd, 1932, J. 
F. Miles in herb. Blake 1335; Mt. Merino, abundant in 
beech forest, 3,500-3,750 feet, and extending to lower alti- 
tudes, November 19th, 1944, Blake 15458 s (forms large 
loose clumps; culms 1-2 feet; sheaths purplish brown; 
leaves green; spikelets brown) ; Mt. Ilobwee, in lower part 
of beech forest, April, 1933, J. F. Miles. *Near Numinbah, 
on steep slopes of Mt. Tenduragan, in edge of rain-forest, 
1,800-1,900 feet, October 9th, 1938, Blake 13855 (some- 
what loosely tufted, erect 1-14 feet; leaves rich deep green 
above, paler beneath; spikelets brown). 
A rather attractive, rich green, grass-like plant 
common in beech ( Nothofagus ) forest, but extending to 
distinctly lower altitudes. The Mt. Tenduragan specimens 
are from an unusually low altitude. Previously known 
from N.E. New South Wales. 
Lepiclosperma canescens Boeck. in Linnaea, xxxviii. 
330 (1874). 
*Mt. Maroon, common in rock crevices, 2,000-3,000 
feet, forming small or large rather open dull green tufts, 
September 3rd, 1939, Blake 14109 (stems erect, 2-3 feet, 
spikelets grey-brown ) • ■‘‘Mt. Barney, very common among 
boulders on rocky slopes, 1,500-2,200 feet, June lltli, 1939, 
Blake 14100 (densely tufted, erect, 2-5 feet, green or dull 
green; spikelets grey-brown); Lamington National Park, 
near source of Nixon’s Creek, abundant in Eucalyptus- 
Casuarina forest, forming large masses, chiefly on damper 
