CorENso.— Descriptions of new Indigenous Plants. 885 
lax, ovate-acuminate, keeled, with a green longitudinal stripe down the 
centre (afterwards brown), slightly transversely wrinkled, margins white 
chaffy. Utricle smooth, as long as the glume, ovate-acuminate, 8-nerved, 
swollen in the middle; bristle, excurved, twice as long as the glume, light- 
Hab. In Fagus woods, Norsewood, Pubs s Bay district, North Island ; 
flowering early in November, 1881 : W. 
Obs.—Plant wholly light green uem very esspitose, but spreading out 
flat in a circle, with the culms beyond the leaves. 
Uncinia alopecuroides, sp. nov. 
Plant, 2 feet 6 inches high, much branched at base, ascending, diffuse. 
Culms, 11-12 inches high, smooth, erect, leafy throughout with 4-5 leaves, 
trigonous (or multangular) with 3 raised longitudinal lines on each face. 
Leaves much longer than the culms, 1 foot 9 inches—2 feet long, 2 lines 
wide at widest part near base, linear, grass-like, flat, flaccid, very acumin- 
ate, dark green, nerved, striated, keeled, serrulate at margins, and finely 
and regularly scabrid on lines of nerves on both surfaces and on the midrib 
below, channelled towards tips, which are somewhat dilated and obtuse and 
thickly serrulated, at the base is a small broad sub-rotund bifid ligula ; the 
short leaf-like bracts at the bases of the stems and the sheathing bases of 
the leaves are dark brown and regularly striated, the strie broad and flat. 
Spikelet long, slender, terete, acuminate, 54 inches long, the upper male 
portion 14 inch long, closely imbricated but less so at the base; bract of 
various lengths 1-54 inches long, filiform, obtuse, 1l-nerved, scabrid at 
edges and at the obtuse tip. Glumes narrow-linear-ovate, 24 lines long, 
nerved, pale with a green central stripe, somewhat glossy, margins chaffy, 
tip membranaceous obtuse, white, with two brown crescent-like transverse 
bars, or bands, just below it.  Utricle slender, lanceolate-acuminate, length 
of glume, pale, smooth ; bristle longer than utricle, slender, pale, excurved. 
Stamens and anthers very long, linear. Styles spreading very rough (setose- 
like). 
Hab. Forests, with the preceding species : W.C. 
Obs, —From the form of its long spikelet, somewhat resembling that of 
Alopecurus agrestis, has been derived its specific name, 
Genus 14. Carex, Linn. 
Carex spinirostris, sp. nov. 
Plant densely esspitose. Culms leafy, obscurely triquetrous, slender, 
smooth, 10-11 inches long. Leaves much longer than the culms, 2 feet 6 
inches—2 feet 9 inches long, 3th of an inch wide, linear-acuminate and very 
acute at tip, rather flat, sub-membranaceous, striate, keeled, drooping, dark- 
green, slightly scabrous, with finely and closely serrulated margins. Spikelets 
