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South Island.—Amuri, T. Kirk! Southern Alps, Sinclair and Haast 
(Handbook); Canterbury Plains, T. Kirk; Lakes Tekapo and Alexandrina, 
and by the Tasman River, T.F.C. ; Waitaki River, Haast ; Dunedin, 
D. Petrie! Lake District of Otago, J. Buchanan! Stewart Island, 7. Kirk. 
Altitudinal range from sea-level to over 3,000 feet. 
I have followed Mr. Bentham in uniting the Tasmanian and New 
Zealand C. cataracte with the northern C. flava ; the differences between 
the two forms being hardly of specific value. New Zealand specimens 
never seem to attain the size of European, and as a rule the spikelets are 
much more closely compacted, and the perigynia smaller. In all my 
specimens the beak of the perigynium is shorter than in the typical C. flava, 
in this respect approaching the variety «deri, often kept as a distinct 
species. Specimens from Swanport, Tasmania, kindly forwarded to me by 
Baron Miieller, have indeed perigynia almost indistinguishable from those 
of C. ederi, as is stated in the “ Flora Australiensis ;" but I have not seen 
any specimens collected in New Zealand that exaetly match them. 
C. flava has a wide distribution ; being found through the greater por- 
tion of Northern and Central Europe, in temperate North America, Madeira, 
Western and Central Asia to the Himalaya Mountains, and in Tasmania. 
38. C. vaecilans, Sol., mss. ; Boott in Hook. fil. Fl. Nov. Zeal., i., 285 ; 
Handbk. N.Z. Flora, 317. 
North Island.—Not uncommon on declivities in dry woods, especially 
near the sea. I have seen no specimens from the South Island. 
This is à handsome and in my opinion very distinct species. Sir J. D. 
Hooker remarks (Handbook, p. 311) that it should perhaps be united with 
C. dissita ; but the long and slender spikelets, narrow entire glumes, and 
much longer and narrower fusiform beaked perigynia do not appear to show 
any close alliance to that plant. In habit and in the shape of the perigynia 
there is considerable resemblance to the next species, which has induced me 
to place the two plants close together. C. vaccilans is, however, much 
smaller in all ibs parts, and the perigynia do not spread when mature. 
39. C. forsteri, Wahl. in Act. Holm., 1808, 154; Boott in Hook. fil. Fl. 
Nov. Zeal., i., 285; Hook. fil. Handbk. N.Z. Flora, 815 (in part only). C. 
debilis, Forst. Prodr., 92, non Michz. C. recurva, Schkuhr Car.,f. 84. Q. 
punctulata, A. Rich. Fl. Nouvelle Zél., t. 99, C. cinnamomea, Cheeseman, 
Trans. N.Z. Inst., xiv., 801, not of Olney. 
North Island.— Whangarei Heads; Thames Goldfields; Raglan ; near 
Gisborne, T.F.C.; Wellington, T. Kirk. 
South Island.—Lower Motueka, Graham River, Wangapeka Valley, and 
other localities in Nelson, T.F.C. Akaroa, T. Kirk. Altitudinal range 
from sea-level to 8,000 feet. . 
