(c.) Schoenus Pauciflorus Swamp.

This community occurs where streams widen out into many channels on the flood plains, and is now much modified, and owing to stock approximates to bog. The few examples still retaining a truly swamp facies are similar in species, other than the dominants, to those of Carex secta swamp, and the transition to grassland is similar. A noticeable feature is the large amount of Olearia lineata, small in the swamps, and reaching a height of about 3 m. on the ‘margins. The green-stemmed variety of Schoenus pauciflorus, though infrequent, is more often met with in the swamp, than in the bogs later described. How far the Schoenus is a true swamp plant, and how far an indicator that bog conditions are approaching my observations are insufficient to pronounce, but the Schoenus seems perfectly at home under true swamp conditions.