Currseman.—On the Flora of the Nelson District. 301 
5. Carex leporina, L. 
C. ovalis, Good. 
This is also an abundant plant in Northern Europe and Asia, and in 
some parts of North America. In the “ Flora Antarctica” it is recorded as 
a doubtful inhabitant of the Falkland Islands, but I am not aware that it 
has been collected elsewhere in the southern hemisphere. The following 
description is drawn up from New Zealand specimens :— 
Culms 12-18 inches high, rather slender. Leaves usually much shorter, 
flat, grassy, } inch broad. Spikelets 4-8, androgynous, ovoid, pale brown, 
shining, collected into an oblong head an inch long; male flowers at the 
base. Bracts wanting, or small and glume-like. Perigynia as long as the 
acute glumes, elliptic, plano-convex, striate, winged, narrowed into a long 
beak ; margins and beak finely serrulate. Stigmas 2. 
Hab.—Motueka Valley, Ngatimoti, and other places in the western por- 
tion of the Nelson district. 
6. Carex cinnamomea, 0. Sp. 
Slender, 1-2 feet high. Leaves longer than the culms, with harsh 
cutting edges, flat, striate, 3} inch broad. Culms drooping, bracts long 
and leafy. Spikelets 5-8, distant, upper sessile, lower pedunculate, curved, 
nodding, 24-4 inches long, } inch in diameter ; terminal one male, or male 
at the base only, the rest female, but usually with a few lax male flowers 
below. Glumes longer than the perigynia, lanceolate, cuspidate, entire ; 
with a green keel and reddish-brown margins. Perigynia slightly spreading 
when ripe, pale, stipitate, narrow elliptic, strongly nerved, narrowed into a 
short stout beak ; beak minutely 2-toothed. Stigmas 3. 
Hab eddeviains River and other tributaries of the Motueka rising in 
Mount Arthur. Sources of the Takaka River, ascending to 3,500 feet 
altitude, 
Most nearly allied to C. vacillans, but readily distinguished by its larger 
size, longer much stouter spikelets, longer glumes, and by the shape of the 
Perigynia, which want the tapering deeply bifid beak of that species. 
Arr, XLV.—Contributions to a Flora of the Nelson Provincial District. 
By T. F. Carzsemax, F.L.S., Curator of the Auckland Museum. — 
(Read before the Auckland Institute, 3rd October, 1881.) 
“ix importsnee of obtaining an scunte knowns of te roan 
and altitudinal distribution of our native Flora, and of d determining 
