942 :  Transactions.— Botany. 
Obs.—Sometimes the culm is entirely smooth throughout, and without 
a bract. 
Genus 14. Carex, Linn. 
Carex flagellifera, sp. nov. 
A flaccid diffuse largely tufted species. Culms slender, 7-8 feet long, 
1 line diameter below, much less above in middle and long panicle, smooth, 
subcylindrie, hollow in the. centre, striate, prostrate, extended, bearing a 
single leaf about the middle. Leaves drooping and spreading, much shorter 
than the culms, 2 feet 6 inches long, 1 line wide, stout, smooth, channelled, 
finely scabrous at edges, and still more slightly so on midrib at back, above 
but not below, green, regularly striate, with a broad filmy margin at the 
extreme base. Spikelets 4-6 (usually 5), very distant on panicle, cylindrical 
24 inches long, peduneled, pendulous ; peduncles 2-8 inches long, com- 
pressed, lowermost pair 1-2 feet apart, sometimes the lowermost one is 
compound trifid or shortly tripedicelled, the uppermost one is male and 
very slender, 14 inches long; bracts very long, narrow and foliaceous, finely 
scabrid at edges; glume ovate-acuminate, 14 lines long, stoutly 1-nerved, 
awned, awn barbed; utricle as long as the glume, broadly lanceolate, 
bifid, turgid shining, light-brown ; stigmas 2. 
Hab. On sides of abrupt clayey declivities, woods, between Norsewood 
and Danneverke, Waipawa County, 1881-1888 : W.C 
Vbs.—A very remarkable species, owing to its very long weak and pro- 
strate culms, which stream away together like long wisps or bands, and so 
get entangled among the low herbage and common fern—Pteris esculenta. 
Carex sex-spicata, sp.nov. 
Culms 2 feet-2 ft. 8 3n. high, erect, stout, trigonous, smooth, more than 
1 line in diameter, leafy, culm leaves with a sharply acute triangular hairy 
ligule ; leaves as long as culms, + inch wide, sub-rigid, rather harsh, flat, 
many nerved, the 2 principal lateral nerves white and strong on the upper 
surface, very acuminate, expanding below into wide filmy sheaths, keeled, 
closely and finely scabrid at edges, and slightly so on the two white nerves 
above and on the midrib below, striated ; spikelets 6, approximate, each 
about 2 inches long, stout, shortly peduncled, erect, light brown, panicle 
short, $ below of upper spikelet male, and the next two with a very few 
males below, the other 3 wholly female; bracts wide, foliaceous; glume 
linear-ovate-acuminate, bifid, sub-awned, less than 2 lines long, shorter 
and much narrower than the utricle, 1-nerved, longitudinally and nume- 
rously marked with fine short red lines, persistent ; utricle ovate-acuminate, 
1-nerved, turgid, spreading, smooth, bifid, tips acute, long-produced ; 
anthers 1% lines long, linear, apiculate, twisted, light brown; filaments 
longer than anthers, flat, much flexuose; stigmas 8. 
