Luzula .] 
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Abundant throughout the Northern and Middle Islands : Banks and Solander, etc. 
Var. 0 usually in woods. A most variable plant, found in all temperate parts of the globe ; 
extremely common in temperate Australia and Tasmania. Var. /3 is the common Tasmanian 
form. 
2. L. Oldfieldii, Hook. f. FI. Tasm. ii. 6S. More robust than L. 
campestris. Gulin stout, 3-8 in. high, leafy. Leaves coriaceous, often ^ 
in. broad, flat ; margins cartilaginous, ciliate with very long hairs. Mowers 
in dense ovoid or subglobose, simple or compound, sessile or pedicelled heads, 
1 in. diam. Bracts ciliate, often lacerate. Flowers as in L. campestris, 
but rather larger. 
Middle Island: Southern Alps, Haast; Otago, sand dunes, mouth of the Kaikorai, 
Lindsay ; Waitaki valley, in swampy ground, Hector and Buchanan. Also a native of the 
alps of Tasmania. A very distinct form, but no doubt passing into L. campestris on one 
hand, and into L. crinita on the other. 
3. Xj. crinita, Houk. f. ; — FI. Antarct. 85. t. 48. Much larger and 
stouter than L. campestris. Leaves much ciliated or glabrate, i n - 
broad. Inflorescence a dense, chestnut-brown, broadly ovate, involucrate head, 
| in. long, very woolly at the base. Bracts with fimbriate, ciliate edges. 
Perianth-leaflets subulate or lanceolate, much acuminate, with paler but not 
white borders. 
Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island, J. I). H. Macquarrie’s Island, 
Frazer. Closely allied to the Fuegian L. Alopecurus, Desv., and probably only a gigantic 
form of L. campestris, a, with broader leaves and more ciliated bracts. 
4. L. pumiia, Hook./., n. sp. Small, densely tufted, nearly glabrous, 
1-2 in. high. Leaves shorter than the culm, 1 in. long, linear-subulate, ob- 
tuse, coriaceous, convex at the back, concave in front. Gulin naked, 1-2 in. 
high. Flowers in a small, terminal, 4-10-liowered head, ^ in. long. Bracts 
ovate, edges ragged. Perianth-leaflets subulate or lanceolate, long-acuminate, 
chestnut-brown, twice as long as the black capsule. 
Middle Island: summit of Mount Torlesse and Mount Darwin, alt. 6-7000 ft., Haast ; 
Otago, lake district, alpine. Hector and Buchanan. 
5. L. Colensoi, Hook, f., n. sp. Very small, densely tufted, nearly 
glabrous, 1 in. high. Leaves longer than the culm, •£— | in. long, subulate, 
obtuse, coriaceous, convex at the back, very concave in front. Scape stout, 
sunk amongst the foliage. Flowers in small, terminal, 6-8-flowered heads, 
T V in. long. Bracts ovate, edges ragged. Perianth-leaflets ovate-oblong, 
obtuse or acute, white with brown centre, not much longer than the pale 
capsule. 
Northern Island : summit of the Ruahine mountains, Colenso. Probably only an 
alpine state of L. campestris , y, but totally different in habit and appearance. 
Order X. RESTIACEj®. 
Grass-like or rush-like herbs. Leaves always narrow, sheathing below, 
the sheath usually split to the base. Flowers in terminal heads, or soli- 
tary in the sheaths of the leaves, or in spikelets terminating scapes, small, 
uni- or bisexual. — Perianth dry, often thin and membranous, of 2-6 leaflets 
in 2 series, or reduced to imbricating, flower-bearing scales (glumes). Sta- 
