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Transactions. — Botany. 



Gbamine^, 



Ehrharta thomsoni, Petrie. 

 Microlfena stipoides, Br. 



avenacea, Hook. f. 

 Hierochloe redolens, Br. 



alpina, Rosin, d: Schulles. 

 Agrostis semula, Br. 

 billardieri. 

 avenoides, Hook. f. 

 quadriseta, Br. 



Arundo conspicua, Forst. 

 Danthonia cunniughamii, Hook. f. 

 raoulii, Steud. 

 semiannularis, Br. 

 Trisetum antarcticum, Trinius. 

 Poa imbecilla, Forst. 



australis, jB?'., var. Iffivis. 

 colensoi, Hook. f. 

 Gymnostichum gracile, Hook. f. 



Art. XLI. — Description of new Species of Carex. 



By D. Petrie, M.A. 



[Read before the Otago Institute, 1st February, 1881.] 



Carex 2^(^^^keri, n.s. 



A SMALL slender species ; culms 3-5 iuclies ; leafy at and above the base,' 



smooth, grooved ; leaves flat, smooth, striate, shorter than the culm, 



sheathing at the base ; sheaths more membranous and strongly striate ; 



spikelets two or three, forming a compact head ; bract glume-like, with a 



short awn ; male flowers below, female above ; glumes ovate, obtuse or 



subacute, one-nerved, dark-purplish, paler at and near the nerve ; utricle 



subequal with or longer than the glume, ovate oblong, rather compressed, 



with entire beak and numerous faint nerves ; stigmas two. 



This species stands near C. colensoi. 



Hah. A hill near Mount Aspiring, 5,000 feet. 

 Carex kaloides, n.s. 



A tall, slender, caBspitose species ; culms drooping, two feet or more, 

 sparingly leafy at the base, rounded, smooth ; leaves shorter than culm, 

 narrow, flat or involute, deeply grooved, slightly scabrid at the edges, most 

 tenacious ; spikelets 9-12, lower compound distant, upper approximate, 

 arranged on alternate sides of the long (8-5 inches) scabrid rachis ; lowest 

 bract setaceous, very long ; male flowers at the top few, sometimes wanting, 

 female flowers below ; glumes linear-lanceolate, scarious, 1-8-nerved, the 

 nerves produced into a slender awn ; utricle linear-lanceolate, plano-convex, 

 ending in a tapering two-winged bifid beak, the wings finely serrate ; 

 stigmas two, short. 



A very distinct species. The leaves have an exceedingly strong fibre. 



Hab. Carrick range, Otago, 4,000 feet; Deep Stream, Otago, 1,000 feet. 



Carex viridis, n.s. 

 A slender tufted species ; culms erect, 6-12 inches, grooved, smooth ; 

 leaves sheathing at the base, narrow, concave, smooth, shorter than the 



