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Restiacee. | FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 265 
Has. Abundant throughout the Islands, Banks and Solander, ete. (A native of England.) 
A very familiar plant to the English Botanist, which is likely to puzzle the New Zealand student from its 
singularly protean habit.—Stems 1-16 inches high. Leaves short and almost subulate, or long and grassy, generally 
with long scattered hairs. Inflorescence a dense, sessile, rounded or lobed head or spike, solitary or with one or 
more pedunculate spikes rising from its base, or broken up into many little pedunculate spikelets. Flowers very 
pale, or deep chestnut-brown. Perianth with a broad central brown area, and comparatively narrow white border.— 
All the New Zealand varieties are found in Europe, and most of them in Australia, Tasmania, and other parts of 
the world. One of these, gathered by Mr. Colenso on the Ruahine and other mountains, is tufted and not an inch 
high, nearly glabrous, has subulate leaves, and a small dense spike sunk amongst the leaves; this latter closely 
resembles Alpine specimens of the Auckland Islands Z. crinita; I have examined a similar state of LL. campestris 
from the Norwegian Alps. 
2. Luzula picta, A. Rich.; gracilis, laxe pilosa, spiculis paucifloris gracile pedunculatis v. rarius 
congestis, bracteis integris, perianthiis acuminatis subaristatis albidis fascia castanea angusta. L. picta, 
A. Rich. Fl. L. Banksiana, E. Meyer in Linnaa, v. 99. p. 412. Juncus campestris var., Banks et Sol. 
MSS. et Ic. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands, frequent, Banks and Solander, D’ Urville, etc. 
A very variable plant, possibly a variety of Z. campestris, but much smaller, more slender, and narrower-leaved, 
with sparingly branched, rather cymose inflorescence.—Spihelets few-flowered, on filiform spreading peduncles, rarely 
clustered into one spike. Perianth pale, glistening, of very sharp, almost aristate segments, with a narrow chestnut- 
brown. stripe down the middle. 
Oss. —Lueula crinita (Fl. Antarct. p. 85. t. 48), which is abundant in Lord Auckland’s and Campbell’s 
Island, has not yet been gathered in New Zealand: it is much too nearly allied to Z. campestris, but it is a more 
robust, very villous plant, with thicker, more coriaceous, and keeled perianth, and fimbriate bracts. 
Oñs.—The genus Rostkovia, of which two species inhabit Lord Auckland’s and Campbell’s Islands, has not 
been gathered in New Zealand, but probably exists in the Middle and South Islands. It may be recognized by its 
long terete leaves, large solitary flowers, long style, and three long stigmas. 
Nar. Orp. XCIII. RESTIACEA, Br. 
Gen. I. LEPTOCARPUS, Br. 
Flores dioici, fasciculati, amentacei. Perianthium 6-glume. d Stamina 3; anthere 1-loculares, 
peltate. — 9 Ovarium l-ovulatum; stylus 1; stigmata 3. Nu crustacea, basi styli coronata. 
Rush-like dicecious plants, with a stout, scaly, creeping rhizome, and erect, simple or branched, cylindrical, 
jointed, sheathed culms. In the only New Zealand species the male plants have a loosely panicled inflorescence of 
pedicellate spikelets; scales imbricating, lanceolate or ovate, long or broad, acuminate or awned, spreading; glumes 
acute, three outer larger, inner shorter; stamens three, with short filaments surrounding a thick disc, which is a 
deformed ovary. Female plants with sessile, crowded or remote, simple or fascicled, short spikelets. Scales broad, 
concave, acute, mucronate or awned ; flowers flattened; three outer glumes concave, acuminate, erect, spreading at 
the tips; inner shorter, connate at the base, acute or acuminate in the flower, often becoming blunt, and always 
hard, and enclosing the ripe fruit. Ovary trigonous, with short style and three long deciduous stigmas. <Achenium 
one-celled, indehiscent, with one pendulous seed. The other species are all Australian and Tasmanian. (Name 
from Aerros, slender, and kaprros, fruit.) 
1. Leptocarpus simplex, Br.; culmis e rhizomate repente simplicibus gracilibus v. robustis, spiculis 
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