(512 Trail sac lions. — Botany. 



green, much shorter than ovary ; style short and thick ; 

 stigma coarse, truncate, obsoletely 3-angled. Female. : Only 

 imperfect and damaged flowers seen. 



Hah. Euahine Mountain-range, east side : Mr. H. Hill, 

 1895 ; Mr. E. W. Andrcics, 1895. 



Obs. This is another small mountain species, allied to 

 A. linearis, Hook., of the same mountain-range (and also of 

 the Antarctic Islands, Auckland, and Campbell's) ; to A. alpina, 

 Br., of Tasmania; and to A. pumila, Br., of Fuegia and the 

 Falklands ; but differing from them all. Of the specimens 

 received, the female-Q.o\\Qve(\ plants were much damaged and 

 past fiow^ering ; sufficient, however, remained to show their 

 great difference from their congeners. 



Order XI. Cypekace^. 

 Genus 14. Carex, Linn. 

 1. C. inco)is2nciia, sp. nov. {no7i Steud.). 



Plant very small, l^in.-lfin. high, erect, thickly caespitose. 

 Leaves very narrow, filiform, semiterete, canaliculate, irre- 

 gular in length, finely serrulate at top, tips obtuse, green, 

 sheathing below, 6-8 together. Culms a little longer than 

 leaves; spikelet solitary, small, 1-1^ lines long, broadly 

 cuneate, spreading, usually 4 together ; the two outer scales 

 long, bract-like, the outermost ^in. long, tip stout, obtuse ; the 

 next i-in. long, tip slender, acute, both finely serrulate. Glume 

 rather large for plant, ovate-acuminate, brown, enwrapping, 

 margins membranous, tip much produced, serrulate. Utricle 

 ovoid acuminate, tip 2-tid, lobes long sharp pointed serru- 

 late. Style long, margins serrulate; stigmas 3 (sometimes 2), 

 dark-brown, long, rough, curved. 



Hab. Euahine Mountain-range, east side: Mr. A. Olscn ; 



Obs. Allied to C. acicularis, but a smaller plant, without 

 the linear scale of that species, with differently-shaped spikelet, 

 long style, &c. 



Order XII. Gramineje. 

 Genus 16. Danthonia, De CandoUe. 

 1. D. nervosa, sp. nov. (Col., non Hooker). 



Plant small, tufted ; rootstock hard, slightly knobbed, 

 much branched ; branches short, patent, spreading and as- 

 cending, with many white glabrous sheathing striate bracts 

 at bases of leaves and clothing nodules. Culms erect and 

 drooping, 7in.-9in. (rarely 12in.) long, slender, almost fili- 

 form, glabrous, striate, pale-green, nodes blackish, with three 

 short stem-leaves nearly equidistant. Leaves few, one-third 



