Currseman.—Revision of the N.Z. Species of Carex. 427 
8. C. muricata, L. Species Plant.; Cheeseman, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xvi., 
p. 411. 
South Island.—Mount Owen, Nelson; alt. 4,000 feet, T.F.C. 
Elsewhere I have stated that the identification of the New Zealand 
plant with the northern C. muricata, L., must not be taken as finally 
settled until mature fruiting specimens are obtained. So far as habit, 
foliage and inflorescence are concerned, there is little apparent difference ; 
but the young perigynia hardly match those of a similar age in English 
and Swiss specimens. C. muricata is common in many parts of Europe, 
and is also found in North Africa, North and Central Asia to the Himalaya 
Mountains, and in North America. It has not been previously recorded 
from the southern hemisphere. 
9. C. teretiuscula, Good., Linn. Trans., ii., 150; Hook. fil. Fl. Nov. 
Zeat, 1., 981; Handbk. N.Z: Flora, 818. 
North Island.—Tangoia, Hawke’s Bay, Colenso (Handbook); Ruataniwha 
Plains, H. Tryon ! 
South Island.—Not uncommon in marshy places in the mountain dis- 
tricts. Motueka Valley, Wairau Valley, Upper Waimakariri, Lake Tekapo, 
ete., T.F.C.; Lake Ohau, Haast (Handbook); Lake Wakatipu, Valley of 
the Dart, T. Kirk; Strath Taieri, Port Molyneux, D. Petrie! Altitudinal 
range from sea-level to over 3,000 feet. 
By many authors this species is united with C. paniculata, some 
northern forms of which approach it very closely. C. teretiuscula, however, 
has a very different habit, and never forms the dense tussocks of 
C. paniculata. It is usually much smaller, the stems more slender and 
wiry, the panicles (or spikes) much shorter and broader, and the perigynia 
are also slightly different. But there is little danger of its being confounded 
with the New — varieties of C. paniculata, all of which are widely 
divergent. 
Outside New Zealand, C. teretiuscula is found in North and Central 
Europe, the Himalaya Mountains, and in North America. 
10. C. paniculata, L. Species Plant., 1,383; Kunth, Enum. ii,, 359 ; 
Var. appressa.—Stouter, stems more acutely angled ; donate wider (often 
nearly j inch); panicles more erect and rigid, stouter and broader, with 
more densely packed spikelets; perigynia plano-convex, margins incurved, 
faces very prominently nerved. C. appressa, Br. Prodr., 242; Hook. fil. 
Fl, Antarct., i., 90; Flora Tasm., ii., 99; Handbook N.Z. Flora, 818; 
Boott, Ill. Car., i., 46, t. 119, 120. 
Var. virgata.—Slender, panicle longer and narrower, often interrupted 
below, perigynia smaller, prominently nerved. C. virgata, Sol. ; Boott, l. è., 
t. 121, 122; Hook. fil. Fl. Nov. Zeal., i., 282; Handbook N.Z. Flora, 813. 
