426 Transactions.— Botany. 
5. C. parkeri, Petrie, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xiii., 832. 
South Island.—Otago, on a hill near Mount Aspiring, alt. 5,000 feet, 
D. Petrie! G. M. Thomson ! 
I exceedingly regret that I only possess two immature specimens of this 
curious little plant, and am therefore unable to add anything to Mr. Petrie’s 
description. It is clearly distinct from all the New Zealand species, but 
appears to be in some measure allied to the northern C. lagopina, Wahl., so 
far as the state of my specimens admits of a comparison being made. 
6. C. leporina, L. Species Plant.; Cheeseman, Trans. N.Z. Inst., Xiv., 
801; Kirk, l.c., 884. C. ovalis, Good., Trans. Linn. Socy., ii., 148. 
North Island.—Ohariu Valley, near Wellington, T. Kirk! 
South Island.—Lower Motueka, Ngatimoti, Rosedale, Graham River, 
and other localities in the Nelson Provincial District: T.F.C. 
New Zealand specimens present no points of difference from the English 
plant, which is also found in Northern and Central Europe, Greenland, 
Siberia and Western Asia, and in America along the line of the Rocky 
Mountains. A reported locality in the Falkland Islands needs confirmation 
(Flora Antarctica, 2, p. 862). It may be easily recognized by its flat leaves, 
slender culms, compact pale brown heads of spikelets, and by the narrow 
wing which surrounds the perigynia. 
7. C.echinata, Murray, Prodr. des stirp. Gott.,76; F, Muell. Fragm., 
viii., 252; Benth. Fl. Austral., vii., 489. C. stellulata, Good., Trans. Linn. 
Socy., ii, 144; Hook. fil. Flora Nov. Zeal., i., 281; Handbk. N.Z. Flora, 
312 
North Island.—Probably not uncommon in the elevated districts of the 
central and southern portions of the island. Swamps in the Upper Thames 
Valley (a large stout form), T.F.C.; Bogs near Lake Taupo, Colenso (Hand- 
book). 
South Island.—Common in marshy places in the mountain districts of 
Nelson and Canterbury, alt. 1,000-4,000 feet. Stewart Island, from sea- 
level, D. Petrie! G. M. Thomson! T. Kirk. I have seen no Otago 
specimens. 
Easily separated from all its New Zealand allies by the squarrose 
perigynia. Very variable in size, robustness, number and position of the 
spikelets, etc. The ordinary form closely resembles the common state in 
Europe; but I have a large coarse variety from the Thames Valley with 
stems nearly two feet high, and numerous distant spikelets. A tall slender 
variety with distant spikelets has also been gathered in Stewart Island by 
Messrs. Petrie and Thomson. C. echinata is also found in Northern and 
Central Europe, North Africa, North and West Asia to the Himalaya Moun- 
tains, and in North America. 
