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lax, ovate-acuminate, keeled, with a green longitudinal stripe down the 

 centre (afterwards brown), slightly transversely wrinkled, margins white 

 chaffy. Utricle smooth, as long as the glume, ovate-acuminate, 3-nerved, 

 swollen in the middle ; bristle, excurved, twice as long as the glume, light- 

 brown. 



Ilab. In Fagus woods, Norsewood, Hawke's Bay district, North Island ; 

 flowering early in November, 1881 : W.C. 



Obs. — Plant wholly light green and very csespitose, but spreading out 

 flat in a circle, with the culms beyond the leaves. 

 Uncinia alopecuroides, sp. nov. 



Plant, 2 feet 6 inches high, much branched at base, ascending, diffuse. 

 Culms, 11-12 inches high, smooth, erect, leafy throughout with 4-5 leaves, 

 trigonous (or multangular) with 3 raised longitudinal lines on each face. 

 Leaves much longer than the culms, 1 foot 9 inches — 2 feet long, 2 lines 

 wide at widest part near base, linear, grass-like, flat, flaccid, very acumin- 

 ate, dark green, nerved, striated, keeled, serrulate at margins, and finely 

 and regularly scabrid on lines of nerves on both surfaces and on the midrib 

 below, channelled towards tips, which are somewhat dilated and obtuse and 

 thickly serrulated, at the base is a small broad sub-rotund bifid ligula ; the 

 short leaf-like bracts at the bases of the stems and the sheathing bases of 

 the leaves are dark brown and regularly striated, the striae broad and flat. 

 Spikelet long, slender, terete, acuminate, h\ inches long, the upper male 

 portion If inch long, closely imbricated but less so at the base ; bract of 

 various lengths 1-5^- inches long, filiform, obtuse, 1-nerved, scabrid at 

 edges and at the obtuse tip. Glumes narrow-linear-ovate, 2£ lines long, 

 nerved, pale with a green central stripe, somewhat glossy, margins chaffy, 

 tip membranaceous obtuse, white, with two brown crescent-like transverse 

 bars, or bands, just below it. Utricle slender, lanceolate-acuminate, length 

 of glume, pale, smooth ; bristle longer than utricle, slender, pale, excurved. 

 Stamens and anthers very long, linear. Styles spreading very rough (setose- 

 like). 



Hab. Forests, with the preceding species : W.C. 



Obs. — From the form of its long spikelet, somewhat resembling that of 

 Alopecurus agrestis, has been derived its specific name. 

 Genus 14. Carex, Linn. 



Carex spinirostris, sp. nov. 



Plant densely csespitose. Culms leafy, obscurely triquetrous, slender, 

 smooth, 10-11 inches long. Leaves much longer than the culms, 2 feet 6 

 inches — 2 feet 9 inches long, -J-th. of an inch wide, linear-acuminate and very 

 acute at tip, rather flat, sub-membranaceous, striate, keeled, drooping, dark- 

 green, slightly scabrous, with finely and closely serrulated margins. Spikelets 



