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keel. Utricle broader and longer than the glume, ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate, 
compressed, strongly nerved, green, when ripe dotted with brown ; beak short, 
entire or 2-dentate. Stigmas 2. — FI. Tasm. ii. 99. t. 151 A. 
Middle Island : Southern Alps, Sinclair and Haast, Travers ; Otago, banks of the 
Clulha, Lindsay ; lake district, Hector and Buchanan. All Sinclair’s, Ilaast’s, and Tra- 
vers’s specimens have an almost wholly unisexual spikelet. Lindsay’s have male flowers at top. 
Buchanan remarks that it is a most important plant, filling up bogs, etc., and preparing the 
way for other vegetation. Also a native of South-East Australia and Tasmania. 
10. C. subdola, Boott ; — FI. N. Z. i. 2S2. Very similar in habit and 
characters to C. Gaudichaudiana, but usually taller, 2-3 ft. high, and with 
the glumes mucronate or shortly aristate. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, Colenso, etc. Middle Island : Acheron valley, alt. 
4000 ft., Travers. 
11. C. ternaria, Forst. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 282. A large, tall, very leafy 
species. Culms 2-4 ft. high, stout, leafy throughout ; angles very scabrid. 
Leaves very long, flat, g~ | in. broad, smooth or scabrid. Spikelets very nu- 
merous, cylindric, 1-4 in. long, long-peduncled, nodding or pendulous, soli- 
tary or 2- or 3-nate, dark-brown, unisexual or the female with male flowers 
at top ; bracts very long and leafy. Glumes ovate or lanceolate, truncate 
emargmate or acute, with hispid awns. Utricle shorter than the glume, 
flattened, broadly ovate- or elliptic-obovate, entire or emarginate, nerved, 
shortly beaked. Stigmas 2. — C. polystac/iya, A. Rich. ; C. geminata, Sckkuhr. 
Northern Island, Banks and Solander ; Great Barrier Island, Sinclair; Wellington, 
Stephenson ; Hawke’s Bay, Colenso. Middle Island, abundant. laord Auckland’s 
group, J. B. H. 
12. C. testacea, Solander , — FI. N. Z. i. 282. A rather small, perfectly 
smooth species. Culms 4-10 in. high, very slender, leafy. Leaves as long 
as or longer than the culms, very narrow, flat, -y-g—iV in. broad. Spike- 
lets 4, very close together, sessile, shortly cylindric, |-1 in. long, stout, 
uppermost very slender, male ; bracts very long. Glumes broadly ovate, 
shortly awned, membranous, pale-brown. Utricle as large as the glumes, 
very broadly ovate, turgid, plano-convex, nerved, shining ; beak short, 
usually broadly 2-cuspidate. Stigmas 2. 
Northern Island : Tigada , Banks and Solander ; Auckland, Sinclair. Middle Island : 
banks of the Clutka, Lindsay ; Canterbury, Sinclair and Haast. Boott, who describes tbe 
utricles as serrated above, — but I do not find them so, — informs me that it is possibly a 
variety of C. Raou/ii ; but the 2-fid glumes of the latter readily distinguish it. 
13. C. Raoulii, Boott; — FI. N. Z. i. 283. Culms 2-3 ft. high, 
slender, leafy, smooth. Leaves long, narrow, A in. broad, nearly smooth, 
flat. Spikelets 4-6, pale, close together or the lower distant, sessile, shortly 
cylindric, •§— 1 in. long, male flowers below, upper longer with more male flowers 
below ; bracts very long and leafy. Glumes broadly ovate, 2-lobed, with a 
short hispid awn ; margins broadly scarious and lacerate. Utricle as large as 
the glume, obovate, turgid, plano-convex, purplish, strongly nerved, toothed 
or entire on the edges above ; beak emarginate. Stigmas 2. 
Middle Island: Akaroa, Raoul ; Southern Alps, Sinclair and Haast. 
14. C. lucida, Boott ; — FI. N. Z. i. 283. A rigid, rather harsh, leafy 
species. Culms slender, leafy all the way up, 1-2 ft. high, slightly scabrid. 
