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Capsules $-1}in. long, slender, sparsely but evenly pubescent. Seeds 
papillose, narrowed. upwards, one side almost flat, the other distinctly 
ridged. 
T Hab. ш Hill, Clarence Valley: B. C. Aston! Swale River, 
Clarence Valley (Marlborough): Aston and Wilson! 
eeseman's courtesy I have here reproduced the de- 
scription which he has prepared for the new edition of his Manual. The 
he form of the seeds is very characteristic. It is named in honour o 
Major Robert A. Wilson, D.S.O., who greatly assisted Mr. Aston in the 
exploration of the vegetation of the Clarence Valley. 
3. Carex Enysii sp. nov. 
and rather blunt tips. Spikelets small, solitary, terminal, 3 mm. long or 
less, few-flowered, female flowers (2-3) below, males (1 rarely 2) above. 
Glumes ovate-lanceolate, acute, brown with a green midrib, the lower- 
most produced into a slender bract-like elongation twice as long as the 
utricles or less. Utricles blackish-brown above, greenish below, glabrous, 
narrow-elliptie, not ribbed, not or scarcely stipitate, uniformly contracted 
upwards to the acute pale entire or obscurely bifid apex, almost terete but 
somewhat depressed on the inner face; style branches 3; nut trigonous. 
Hab. — Craigieburn Range, North Canterbury Alps, circa 6,000 ft. : 
Arnold Wall! 
Mr. J. D. Enys, to whose memory this species is dedicated, for a number 
of years occupied as a sheep-run the country where this plant occurs. e 
took a great interest in the botany of the district, and supplied to the late 
Mr. T. Kirk and others valuable specimens of rare and little-known plants. 
4. Carex Carsei sp. nov. 
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Carex late diffusa caespitem densum ac continuum formans. | Culmi 
numerosi, 8-12 cm. alti, graciles erecti leves obtuse triquetri, medio tenus 
