XI. CYFEltACEjE. 
\_Unciuia. 
3 10 
longer, | in. long, subulate-lanceolate, long acuminate, (lark-brown with 
green keel, and the utricle is more attenuate upwards, and less at the base. 
Northern Island: sides of streams, base of Ruahine range, Colenso ; Wellington, 
Ralphs. 
6. U. caespitosa, Boott , in FI. N. Z. i. 287. Culms 6-12 in. high, 
rather stout. Leaves much longer than the culms, slender, xj— xo i n - broad, 
flat or 3-gonous, rather scabrid. Spikelet 1-4 in. long, rather stout; bract 
leafy. Glumes rather close, lower remote, lanceolate, obtuse acute or acumi- 
nate, pale-green. Utricle as long as the glume, narrow ovate or fusiform, 
narrowed at both ends, 3-nerved. 
Northern Island : frequent in mountainous districts, Colenso, etc. A very variable plant, 
small forms, with narrow leaves aud small spikelet, are seen to pass into U. filformis, others 
with broader leaves run into U. rupeslris, and the large form with foliaeeous bracts into U. 
australis. 
7. U. rupestris, Raoul, Cltoix, 13. t. 5; — FI. N. Z. i. 286. Culms 
slender, 3-6 in. high. Leaves very much longer than the culm, flat, tV“to 
in. broad, nearly smooth. Spikelet small, slender, 1-2 in. long; bract seta- 
ceous or 0. Glumes very laxly imbricate, I in. long, narrow oblong-lanceo- 
late, obtuse or acuminate, pale-brown. Utricle about as long as the glume, 
very narrow-ovate or fusiform, attenuate upwards, 3-nerved. — U. Hookeri, 
Boott, in FI. Antarct. i. 91. t. 51 ; U. riparia, Hook. f. in Hook. Journ. 
Bot. iii. 417, not Br. 
Northern Island : Wellington, Stephenson. Middle Island: Akaroa, Raoul; Can- 
terbury, Travers. Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island, J. B. II. Ex- 
tremely near the Tasmanian TJ. riparia, Br., aud perhaps only a form of that plant. 
8. U. filiformis, Boott, in FI. N. Z. i. 286. Culm extremely slender, 
4-10 in. high. Leaves filiform, much longer than the culm, bi. broad, 
3-gonous, grooved, scabrid. Spikelets filiform, f— 1^ in. long ; bract 0. 
Glumes approximate, •§• in. long, lanceolate, acuminate, pale-green. Utricle 
as long as the glumes, lanceolate, 3-nerved. 
Northern Island : top of the Ruahine mountains, Colenso. Middle Gland, Lyall. 
9. U. Baisksii, Boott, in FI. N. Z. i. 287. Habit and foliage of TJ. 
Jiliformis, but the spikelets are 2-3 in. long, male portion sometimes female 
at the top, the glumes distant, short, not half the length of the slender, al- 
most terete, 3-nerved utricle. 
Northern and Middle Islands: not uncommon in damp woods, Banks and Solander, 
etc. 
10. U. rubra, Boott, in Ft. N. Z. i. 287. t. 64 A. Whole plant red- 
brown when dry. Culms rigid, 6-12 in. high, scabrid above. Leaves shorter 
than the culm, rigid, long, striate, concave, jV-iV in. broad. Spikelet rigid, 
1 -2 in. long, male portion short, of few glumes ; bract 0. Glumes few, dis- 
tant, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, concave, rigid, persistent. Utricle as 
long as or shorter than the glume, oblong-lanceolate, terete, faintly nerved. 
Northern Island : east coast, Tehawera, and summit of Titiokura, Colenso. 
14. CAREX, Linn. 
Tufted, usually grass-like sedges, with creeping rhizomes and fibrous roots. 
