Juncus. | JUNCACES, 731 
completely and distinctly septate. Cymes terminal, sparingly 
branched, more or less contracted, usually of 3-8 fascicles, rarely 
more ; bract at the base long, foliaceous, usually overtopping the 
cyme. Flowers 10-20 in each fascicle, greenish, about 4in. long. 
Perianth-segments equal, lanceolate, acuminate. Stamens 6, about 
half the length of the perianth-segments. Capsule equalling the 
perianth or rather longer than it, narrow, prismatic, triquetrous, 
1-celled, the placentas not very conspicuous inside the cells. Seeds 
ovoid-oblong, grooved and transversely rugose, apiculate at each 
end.—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 290; Buchenan Monog. Junc. 357. 
J. prismatocarpus, Lenth. Fi. Austral, vil. 131 (in part). J. cepha- 
lotes, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 263 (not of Thunbd.). 
Norrs Istanp: Swamps from the Bay of Islands southwards to Welling- 
ton, not common. Sea-level to 2500 ft. November-February. 
Also found in Australia and Tasmania. Bentham unites it with J. pris- 
matocarpus, from which it appears to me to be abundantly distinct, as pointed 
out under that species. 
13. J. lampocarpus, Hhr. Calam. n. 126.—Perennial, more or 
less densely tufted. Stems erect or ascending, rarely decumbent at 
the base, slender, terete or compressed, soft, leafy, 6-18 in. high. 
Leaves shorter than the stems, 3-9 in. long, 34-;4, in. broad, linear- 
subulate, straight or curved, compressed or nearly terete, unitubular, 
strongly septate; sheathing base long and narrow, with 2 obtuse 
auricles at the tip. Cyme terminal, compound; branches slender, 
divaricate, bearing small 2-5-flowered heads at the tips and in the 
axils; lower bract much shorter than the cyme, leafy. Flowers 
small, in. long, chestnut-brown.  Perianth-segments equal, 
lanceolate, acute. Stamens 6, much shorter than the segments. 
Capsule exceeding the perianth, narrow, pyramidal, triquetrous, 
mucronate, reddish-brown, glossy, l-celled. Seeds obovoid, reticu- 
late.-—_Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. vi. (1876) 378; Buchen. Monog. 
Junc. 376. 
Norrx anp SourH Is~tanps: From the Auckland Isthmus to Foveaux 
Strait, not uncommon in wet places. Sea-level to 3500 ft. November- 
February. 
A common plant in many parts of the north temperate zone, but in the 
Southern Hemisphere apparently restricted to New Zealand. Perhaps not truly 
indigenous, although now widely spread, even in remote mountain districts. 
14. J. scheuchzerioides, Gaud. in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser. i. 5 
(1825) 100.—Stems usually much branched below, often prostrate 
and rooting, 2-8 in. long or more, leafy throughout. Leaves strict, 
erect, 1-5 in. long, far exceeding the culms, narrow-linear, attenu- 
ated at the apex, compressed, striate, pale-green, soft and herbaceous, 
pith with transverse joints; sheathing base long and broad, mem- 
