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them. Hooker followed the same plan in the Handbook, and even Haussk- 
necht, whose Monograph appeared in 1884, still treated "' junceum” as the 
head of a number of varieties without particularizing any one to bear th e 
From the above it is quite clear that an examination of the Banksian 
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Epilobia I found two specimens labelled “ Epilobium junceum.” ^ These 
are practically identical with E. cinereum A. Rich. In future, therefore, 
var. a, campestre, which answers to E. cinereum A. Rich., and var. b, limosum, 
which the specimens prove to be E. hirtigerum A. Cunn. ; 
As it may be a convenience to New Zealand botanists to have a 
description of the plant which, if the preceding remarks are accepted, must 
be regarded as Solander's E. junceum, I reproduce here a copy of that which 
will appear in the forthcoming edition of the Manual of the New Zealand 
Flora :— 
« E. junceum Soland. in Forst. f. Prodr. Append. (1186), n. 516, nomen 
nudum. Stems strict and erect from a hard almost woody decumbent 
base, 6-18 in. high or more, slender, terete, leafy, simple or branched, 
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crowded on short axillary branchlets, variable in size, 4-1} in. long, sessile, 
oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or linear-spathulate, sub-opposite 
at the base, alternate above, abruptly mucronulate at the apex, margins 
ished with distantly placed denticles, both surfaces more or less clothed 
towards the top of the ste Flowers small, pale rose, } in. long. lyx- 
segments linear-lanceolate, acute, ashy-pubescent. Capsule long, slender, 
erect, straight or curved, in. long, tapering upwa into 
obovoid, papillose.—Spreng., Syst., ii (1825), 233 ; A. Cunn. Precur. (1839), 
n. 551; Ra hois ( 7 _£, Fl. Nov. 
part ; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864), 80, in part; Haussk., Monog. Epilob. (1884), 
irk, Students’ (189 | 2 
« North and South Islands, Stewart Island: Abundant in lowland 
districts throughout, especially in the northern part of the North Island, 
but not common in the elevated districts of either the North Island or 
South Island. Sea-level to 2,000 ft. November—March. ” 
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