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91 ; Wees in Lehm. Plant. Preiss. ii. 94 ; Eaoul, CKoix de Plant, de la 

 Nouv. Zel. 40 ; Boott in J. Hook. Flor. Tasman. ii. 99 ; 0. collata, Boott 

 accord, to quotation in J. Hook. Fl. Nov. Zecl. i. 282 ; C. virgata, Banks 

 & Soland. accord, to Boott in J. Hook. Flor. Nov. Zeel. i. 282 ; lUustr. of 

 the Genus Carex, 46, t. 121 & 122 ; C. seota, Boott in J. Hook. Fl. Nov. 

 Zeel. i. 281 ; lUusta-. of the Gen. Carex, i. 47, 1. 12.3 & 124 ; Vignea panicu- 

 lata, V. paradoxa, V. teretiuscula, Eeichenbach, Flor. German. Excursor, 

 409-410. 



Open damp places of Chatham- Island. 



The author has failed to discover any reliable characteristics by 

 which the small forms of the Australian C. appressa could be safely 

 distinguished from certain states of C. paniculata. Indeed Dr. Boott 

 identified one of the varieties occurring in New Zealand with C. 

 teretiuscula, which again, as Mr. Bentham justly remarks, is not 

 specifically distinguishable from C. paniculata. Dr. Hooker whilst 

 publishing his Antarctic Flora acknowledged C appressa as a native 

 of New Zealand, where it assumes under peculiar climatical and 

 perhaps geological conditions some singularly aberrant forms. There 

 also and in Australia, where C. paniculata is not subjected to the 

 frigor of a lengthened winter, it luxuriates in uninterrupted growth, 

 and this must be assigned as the main cause of the vigor of the 

 vegetation shown by this species in our mild southern latitudes, 

 when not rarely it is producing panicles of fully two feet length 

 and leaves and stems proportionally long. Such luxurious states of 

 the plant are those brought from Chatham-Island by Mr. Travers. 

 But in Australia the species is occasionally met with quite as small 

 as in Europe. 



Carex Fobsteri. 



Wahlenberg in Act. Acad. Holmens. 1803, 154 ; Willdenow, Spec. Plant, iv. 

 249 ; Sohkuhr, Botan. Handbuch, Caric. ii. 44 ; Boott in J. Hook. Flor. 

 Nov. Zeel. ii. 285 ; Steudel, Synops. Glumac. ii. 206 ; Boott, lUustr. of the 

 Genus Carex, i. 52, t. 137 ; C. debilis, Forst. Prodr. 550 ; C. recurva, 

 Schkuhr, Handbuch, Caric. 120, t. Z. N. N. fig. 84 ; C. punctulata, A. 

 Eichard, Toy. de I'Astrolabe, 119, t. 22. 



On damp open or bushy places of Chatham-Island. 



The leaves are attaining ^" width. The number of spikes is 

 sometimes increased to 10, of which then 5 are absolutely stamini- 

 ferous ; the female spikes are occasionally lengthened to 4". Arista 

 of bracteoles not rarely of considerable length. Fruit attaining a 

 breadth of 1'" and then verging into a roundish form. 



Forster's name for this plant would receive precedence were it 

 not singularly inapplicable to this robust species. 



