582 Transactions. — Botany. 



Carex pyeenaica, Wahl. —Common on all the mountains of C. 

 and W. at 5,000ft. and vipwards. Old Man Eange ; Hector 

 Mountains ; Mount Cardrona ; Mount Pisa ; Mount 

 Arnould. 



Carex acicularis, Boott. — Old Man Eange, near head of 



Obelisk Creek (3,500ft.). 

 Carex inversa, Br. — Rather uncommon in the C. and S. Ida 



Valley ; Maniototo Plain ; Strath Taieri ; Catlin's. 



Carex colensoi, Boott. — Common in dry uplands of E., C.^ 

 and S. Kurow ; Maungatua ; Blue Mountains ; Lake 

 Wanaka ; Maniototo Plain ; Lumsden ; &c. 



Carex echinata, Murray. — Not uncommon in lowland and 

 mountain swampy stations. Eomahapa ; Port Molyneux ; 

 Catlin's ; Blue Mountains ; Lake Te Anau ; Hector 

 Mountains (5,000ft.). 



Carex teretiuscula, Goodenough. — Eather rare in the E., 

 C, and S. Strath Taieri ; Sowburn ; Cromwell; Catlin's. 



Carex virgata, Solander. — Common in boggy and swampy 

 stations throughout. 



Carex appkessa, Br. — Common near the E. and S. coasts. 

 Dunedin ; Catlin's; also at Lakes Te Anau and Hawea. 



Carex vulgaris, Fries., var. gaudichaudiana, Boott. — Com- 

 mon in wet stations throughout. Eanges from sea-level 

 (Lake Waihola) to 5,000ft. (Hector Mountains). 



Carex testacea, Solander. — Common throughout the drier 

 parts of the district. Waikouaiti ; Dunedin ; Lawrence ; 

 Maniototo Plain ; moiuitains at Lake Wanaka ; Mount 

 Cardrona (4,000ft.) ; &c. Long confounded by colonial 

 botanists with C. raoulii, Boott, a mistake that led me to 

 describe the true C. raoulii, Boott, as a new species — my 

 C. goyeni. Mr. T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S., was the first to 

 recognise the true G. testacea of Solander. 



Carex ternaria, Forst. — Common from sea-level to 4,000ft. 

 Dunedin ; Old Man Eange ; &c. 



Carex raoulii, Boott.- — Eather rare in open and scrubby 

 valleys of C. and W. Mount Ida ; head of Lake Waka- 

 tipu ; Lake Wanaka ; &c. 



Carex lucida, Boott. — Common in lowlands of E., C, and S. 

 Dunedin ; Waipahi ; Maniototo Plain ; &c. Ascends ta 

 2,500ft. 



Carex pumila, Thunberg.— Common on sandy shores of E. 



and S. 

 Carex forsteri, Wahl. — Not rare in woodlands of E. and S. 



Dunedin ; Catlin's ; Horse Eange ; Clinton Valley. In the 



