Carex. | CYPERACES. 809 
Culms slender, 2-3 ft., often elongating in fruit. Leaves 
qo-d in., keeled. Spikelets 5-10, distant; terminal 2-4 
male; female slender, pendulous on long filiform Be) 
duncles, lower often compound 41. C. Solandri. 
Culms stout. Leaves broad. Spikelets 8; terminal 2-3 
male; females erect on short peduncles, not com- 
pound a4 Se a Be .. 42. C. ventosa. 
Culms stout, 2-3 ft. Leaves 4-1in. broad. Spikelets 5-7; 
2 terminal male; female short and stout, 4in. diam., 
the lowest remote. Utricles ovoid .. ae .. 43. C. longiculmis. 
Culms very tall and robust, 2-4ft. Leaves 4-3in. broad, 
Spikelets 6-12, 2-5in. long, very stout; terminal 2-4 
male. Ubtricles stipitate, obovoid-oblong as .. 44. C. trifida. 
t+ Utricles pubescent, hardly spreading when ripe; beak short. 
Nut with a swollen style-base. 
Culms 1-4in. high, overtopped by the leaves. Spike- | 
lets 2-5, small, green, closely approximate .. .. 45. C. breviculmis. 
+t+ Utricles glabrous, spreading when ripe; beak short. 
Rhizome long, creeping. Culms 4-8in. Leaves much 
longer, glaucous. Spikelets 3-6. Utricles large, tin. 
long, ovoid, turgid, corky, smooth .. -- 46. C. pumila. 
Rhizome tufted. Culms 6- 16in., slender. Leaves shorter. 
Spikelets 3-4, small. Utricles din. long, Deana ob- 
long, turgid, strongly nerved, dark-brown c .. 47. C. Brownii. 
ttt+ Utricles glabrous, spreading when ripe (except in C. vaccilans), 
strongly costate-nerved, narrowed into a long and slender acutely 
2-toothed beak ‘beak shorter and obscurely toothed in C. Cockayniana). 
Yellowish-green. Culms 2-8in. Spikelets 3-8, small, 
stout, tate. Utricles ct akon ndrrowed into a 
long beak . .. 48. C. flava. 
Culms slender, 1-2ft. Leaves harsh. " Spikelets 4-9, dis- 
tant, very slender, about din. broad. Utricles fusi- 
form, hardly spreading bc SE Bie .. 49. C. vaccilans. 
Culms rather slender, 1-2ft. Leaves harsh. Spikelets 
5-8, distant, 4-}in. broad; terminal one often mixed 
with female flowers. Utricles elliptic-lanceolate ; beak 
short, obscurely 2-toothed .. Ss ne .. 50. C. Cockayniana. 
Culms stout or slender, 1--3ft. Leaves harsh. Spike- 
lets 5-9, distant or the upper approximate ; terminal one 
always largely mixed with female flowers. Utricles 
elliptic-lanceolate ; beak long 51. C. semi-Forsteri. 
Culms stout, 13-3 ft. Leaves harsh. "Spikelets 5-9, dis- 
tant; terminal 1-3 wholly male.  Utricles elliptic- 
oblong ; beak Iong .. ext Ae Sc .. 52. C. Forster. 
Culms stout or slender, 1-3ft. Leaves soft, grassy. 
Spikelets 3-5, approximate or the lowermost remote ; 
terminal one male. Utricles ovate-lanceolate, stipitate ; 
beak long, linear, with 2 almost pungent teeth .. 53. C. pseudo-cyperus. 
C. Haastiana, Boeckel. in Flora (1878), 168, collected by Haast in the South 
Island, and C. Kruiliz, Boeckel. 1.c. (1882) 59, gathered by Krull in the Chatham 
Islands, are unknown to me. I have also failed to identify C. ina £ 
Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii. (1885) 254. C. dwisa, Huds.; C. muricata, L. 
(but not of Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi. 411) ; C. flacea, Schreb. 
(C. glauca, Scop.) ; and C. longifolia, R. Br., are certainly not indigenous, and 
will be found in the list of naturaJised species given at the end of this work. 
