Juncus. | JUNCACEA. 729 
base of the inflorescence usually 1 or 2, short, leafy, sometimes 
small and scarious. Flowers small, ;4,in. long, chestnut-brown, 
crowded in many-flowered heads at the ends of the branches of the 
cymes. Perianth-segments subequal or the outer rather shorter, 
oblong-lanceolate, acute. Stamens 3. Capsule equalling the peri- 
anth or very slightly longer than it, obovoid, trigonous, mucronate. 
Seeds numerous, minute, ovoid, very minutely reticulated.—Raouwl, 
Choiz, 40; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zei. i. 263; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 290; 
Benth. Fl. Austral. vii. 125; Buchen. Monog. Junc. 433. 
Norte AnD SourH IsnaANnps, CHATHAM IsLANDS, STEWART ISLAND, AUCK- 
LAND IsnANDS: Abundant throughout. Sea-level to 3000 ft. November- 
January. 
An abundant plant in Australia and Tasmania, also found in Chili. 
9. J. exespiticius, H. Mey. in Lehm. Pl. Preiss. ii. 47; var. 
bracteatus, Buchen. Monog. Junc. 439.—A tufted perennial 6-18 in. 
high ; roots numerous, fibrous. Leaves all radical, much shorter 
than the stem, very numerous, grassy, erect, gradually tapering 
from a long and broad sheathing base to a long subulate acuminate 
point, margins involute. Flowering-stems long, slender, naked. 
Cyme contracted into a dense conglobate head 4-14 in. diam. ; bracts 
at the base 1-3, leafy, much exceeding the cyme. Flowers rather 
longer than in J. planifolius, about $in. long, crowded in many- 
flowered fascicles. Perianth-segments unequal, the 3 outer distinctly 
shorter. Stamens 6, about half the length of the segments. Cap- 
sule equalling the perianth or slightly exceeding it, ovoid-trigonous, 
obtuse, mucronate. Seeds minute, but rather larger than in J. 
planifolius, ovoid, smooth or very indistinctly reticulated.—Benth. 
Fl. Austral. vii. 126. 
NortH anp SoutH Isuanps: From the Auckland Isthmus to Otago, rather 
local. November-—January. 
Closely allied to J. planifolius, with which it has been confounded by most 
New Zealand botanists. It can be distinguished by the narrower involute 
leaves, densely congested cymes, rather larger flowers, the stamens always 6 in 
number, and in the fewer and larger smoother seeds. The typical state, which 
is common in Australia, has the cyme laxly branched, with shorter bracts. 
10. J. antarcticus, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 79, t. 46.—A small 
densely tufted perennial 1-4 in. high; roots long, fibrous. Leaves 
very numerous, all radical, equalling or shorter than the stems, 
suberect or curved, linear-subulate, flat towards the base, semiterete 
or obscurely canaliculate above, cylindric towards the apex, obtuse, 
pith not jointed within; sheathing base long, broad, margins 
scarious. Stem terete, smooth, naked, terminating in a 2-8-flowered 
head, rarely a second head is produced lower down. Bracts ovate, 
membranous, rarely longer than the flowers. Flowers crowded, 
