3 " 8 Transactions. — Botany. 



Art. LIX.— On the Occurrence of Juncus lamprocarpus, Mr., in New Zealand. 



By T. Kirk, F.L.S. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 29th August, 1874.] 



In the early part of the present year I discovered Juncus lamprocarpus, Ehr., 

 growing in great abundance about Karori and other places in the vicinity of 

 Wellington ; and a few months later in the southern part of the province of 

 Otago. About Wellington it occurs only in wet, swampy places, where it 

 often forms a large portion of the herbage and is closely cropped by cattle ; at 

 Invercargill it is found not only in swamps, but in places where the soil is 

 scarcely moist, even on the railroad track, a peculiarity which is possibly due 



greater 



holoschcenus. 



the jointed and compressed stems and leaves, but from which it diners in the 



than 



capsule, and especially in the fascicles never being collected into lateral 



cymes 



When 



both 



the inner and outer segments of the perianth are acute and much shorter in 

 relation to the capsule. 



Our plant may be expected to prove of not unfrequent occurrence in the 



North. 



Wellingt 



The avidity with which it is eaten by cattle is doubtless one cause of its 

 having been so long overlooked in this district. 



