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axillary, or terminating short branchlets, sessile or shortly pedunculate, }’ 
long: perianth small, becoming enlarged after flowering : stamens 6: nut 
convex, black, faintly reticulate. 
Hab.—In several places by the Wairarapa Lake—Harry Borrer Kirk. 
Juncus pauciflorus, R. Brown (not of T. Kirk). 
Although somewhat local in distribution, this species occurs in several 
localities in both islands, and is generally known to New Zealand botanists 
under the name of Juncus communis, B. hexagonus; it is, however, distinct 
from that species, although similar in habit. 
The panicle is lax, consisting of few slender branches, flowers few in 
number, and small: perianth segments acute, stamens 6, capsule ovoid, 
faintly angled. 
The culms are usually slender, and the sheaths at the base very short. 
It appears to have been collected in New Zealand by Banks and Solander. 
Juncus brevifolius, T. Kirk. 
J. pauciflorus, T. Kirk (not of Brown). 
In the “ Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,” vol. ix., p, 551, I 
described this small species under the name of Juncus pauciflorus, but as 
that name has been applied by Bentham to another species, I propose to 
call my plant J. brevifolius. It is distinguished from all New Zealand 
species by its rosulate leaves, slender naked erect culms, and sessile flowers. 
At present it has only been observed in swamps by the Thomas River, 
Canterbury, at an altitude of 2,000 feet. 
Centrolepsis monogyna, Benth. 
Alepyrum monogynum, Hook. f. 
This moss-like plant occurs in swampy places, at an elevation of 3,000 
feet in Arthur’s Pass, where it was observed by the writer in 1877, when 
specimens were distributed under the MS. name of Alepyrum viride. 
It forms large patches, scarcely }’ in height when in flower. Leaves 
deep green, subulate, acute, dilated into a broad membraneous base, with @ 
few short hairs at the back. Bracts sub-opposite, narrow. Flowers two, 
each invested by a semi-transparent scale which nearly equals the bract, and 
consisting of a single stamen and a single carpel. 
Carex — iid 
