Juncus. | JUNCACES, 733 
Seeds smaller and narrower than in J. nove-zealandie.—Buchen. 
Monog. Junc. 290. J. capillaceus, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 264 ; 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 291; #l. Tasm. ii. 65, t. 13848; Benth. Fl. Austral. 
vii. 132 (not of Lamarck). 
Norte anp SoutH IsnAnps: Swampy places from the Bay of Plenty 
southwards, not so common as J. nove-zealandia. Sea-level to 4000 ft. 
December—March. 
I suspect that this will prove to be a variety of J. nove-zealandia, from 
which there is little to separate it, except the smaller paler-coloured flowers 
and smaller and narrower capsule, which is often scarcely longer than the 
perianth. I have several states which appear to be quite intermediate. It is 
also found in south-eastern Australia and Tasmania. 
3. LUZULA, D.C. 
Perennial herbs, usually tufted. Leaves grass-like, mostly 
radical, more or less ciliate with long flexuous white hairs. 
Flowers small, crowded in small fascicles or placed singly, the 
fascicles or single flowers arranged in an irregularly branched 
simple or compound umbel or cyme, sometimes contracted into a 
slobose or spiciform head, each flower witha bract and 2 bracteoles. 
Perianth-segments 6, glumaceous, distinct. Stamens 6, hypogy- 
nous or the 3 inner attached to the base of the segments ; filaments 
filiform ; anthers oblong or linear. Ovary sessile, 1-celled; style 
filiform, with 3 long stigmatic lobes; ovules 3, erect from a 
short basal placenta. Capsule 3-valved. Seeds 3, or fewer by 
abortion, globose or ovoid; testa minutely reticulated. 
Species variously estimated from 30 to 50, most plentiful in the temperate 
portions of the Northern Hemisphere, also found on the mountains of the 
tropics. The Australian and New Zealand species are all very near to the 
protean L. campestris, and are so highly variable as to present an almost 
inextricable series of closely allied forms. 
* Small, 1-2 in. high, forming compact cushion-shaped masses. 
Stems much shorter than the leaves and concealed by 
them, Flowers pale «3 i4 os .. 1. L. Colensoz. 
Stems about equalling the leaves. Inflorescence simple. 
Perianth-segments lanceolate, acute .. : 2. L. micrantha. 
Stems exceeding the leaves. Inflorescence usually simple. 
Perianth-segments subulate, acuminate, dark-chestnut 
with very narrow margins .. +: se .. 3 L. pumila. 
Stems exceeding the leaves. Inflorescence usually com- 
pound. Perianth-segments ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
with broad white margins .. oe ie .. 4. L. Cheesemanii. 
** Stems often densely tufted but never forming cushion-shaped masses. 
Small, slender, 1-4in. high. Inflorescence a terminal 
solitary 3-8-flowered head. Stamens 3 be Ac 
Variable in size, 4-18in. lLeaf-tip obtuse, often callous. 
Inflorescence lax or contracted, many-flowered .. 6. ZL. eampestris. 
Usually from 6 to 14in. Leaf-tip subulate, acute. In- 
florescence of dense spikes congested into a pyramidal 
head ac eis 3 30 se .. 7. DL. racemosa. 
5. L. leptophylila. 
