426 Transactions. — Botany. 



5. C.parkeri, Petrie, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xiii., 332. 



South Island. — Otago, on a hill near Mount Aspiring, alt. 5,000 feet, 

 D. Petrie ! G. M. Thomson ! 



I exceedingly regret that I only possess two immature specimens of this 

 curious little plant, and am therefore unable to add anything to Mr. Petrie's 

 description. It is clearly distinct from all the New Zealand species, but 

 appears to be in some measure allied to the northern C. lagopina, Wahl., so 

 far as the state of my specimens admits of a comparison being made. 



6. C. leporina, L. Species Plant.; Cheeseman, Trans. N.Z. Inst.,\ix., 

 301 ; Kirk, I.e., 384. C. ovalis, Good., Trans. Linn. Socy., ii., 148. 



North Island. — Ohariu Valley, near Wellington, T. Kirk ! 



South Island. — Lower Motueka, Ngatimoti, Eosedale, Graham River, 

 and other localities in the Nelson Provincial District : T.F.C. 



New Zealand specimens present no points of difference from the English 

 plant, which is also found in Northern and Central Europe, Greenland, 

 Siberia aud Western Asia, and in America along the line of the Eocky 

 Mountains. A reported locality in the Falkland Islands needs confirmation 

 (Flora Antarctica, 2, p. 362). It may be easily recognized by its flat leaves, 

 slender culms, compact pale brown heads of spikelets, and by the narrow 

 wing which surrounds the perigynia. 



7. C. echinata, Murray, Prodr. des stirp. Gott., 76 ; F. Muell. Fragm., 

 viii., 252 ; Benth. Fl. Austral., vii., 439. G. stellulata, Good., Trans. Linn. 

 Socy., ii., 144 ; Hook.fil. Flora Nov. Zeal., i., 281 ; Handbk. N.Z. Flora, 

 312. 



North Island. — Probably not uncommon in the elevated districts of the 

 central and southern portions of the island. Swamps in the Upper Thames 

 Valley (a large stout form), T.F.C. ; Bogs near Lake Taupo, Colenso (Hand- 

 book). 



South Island. — Common in marshy places in the mountain districts of 

 Nelson and Canterbury, alt. 1,000-4,000 feet. Stewart Island, from sea- 

 level, D. Petrie ! G. M. Thomson ! T. Kirk. I have seen no Otago 

 specimens. 



Easily separated from all its New Zealand allies by the squarrose 

 perigynia. Very variable in size, robustness, number and position of tbe 

 spikelets, etc. The ordinary form closely resembles the common state in 

 Europe ; but I have a large coarse variety from the Thames Valley with 

 stems nearly two feet high, and numerous distant spikelets. A tall slender 

 variety with distant spikelets has also been gathered in Stewart Island by 

 Messrs. Petrie and Thomson. C. echinata is also found in Northern and 

 Central Europe, North Africa, North and West Asia to the Himalaya Moun- 

 tains, and in North America. 



