316 xi. cyperace^e. [Carex. 
Middle Island: Southern Alps, Sinclair and Haast ; swampy gullies, Waitaki river, 
etc., Haast ; Otago, lake district, Sinclair and Haast. Also a native of Tasmania. 
18. C. breviculmis, Br. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 283. t. 63 A. A small, 
tufted, leafy species, 1-10 in. high, nearly smooth. Culms very short indeed. 
Leaves many times longer than the culms, very narrow, aV - iV in., hat, keeled, 
grooved. Spikelets hidden amongst the leaves, few, crowded together, sessile, 
•jt-j- in. long, pale-green, male terminal, females with sometimes a few male 
flowers at the tip ; bracts long, leafy. Glumes 6-8, nearly white, ovate, cus- 
pidate or shortly awned. Utricle shorter than the glume, narrow elliptic- 
oblong, narrowed at both ends, scarcely beaked, nerved, green, pubescent. 
Stigmas 3. 
Northern Island: in grassy places, Bay of Islands, Tarawara, Ahuriri, etc., Colenso, 
etc. Also a native of South-East Australia and Tasmauia, Japan, China, and the Himalaya 
mountains. 
19. C. trifida, Cavanilles ; — FI. N. Z. i. 284. A very large, tall, ro- 
bust, leafy sedge, 3-6 ft. high. Culms stout, obtusely 3-gonous, leafy, 
smooth. Leaves very large and long, 4 in. broad and more, flat, keeled, striate ; 
margins scabrid. Spikelets 6-10 or more, approximate, dark-brown, shortly 
peduncled, erect or nodding, cylindric, very large, 2-4 in. long, 4 in. broad, 
lower sometimes compound ; bracts very long and leafy. Glumes linear- 
oblong or lanceolate, •§• in. long, membranous, red-brown, 2-fid with a hispid 
awn at the tip. Utricle shorter than the glumes, oblong-obovate, strongly 
nerved; beak 2-fid. Stigmas 3. 
Northern Gland : Totara-nui, Banks and Solander. Middle Island : Akaroa, 
Raoul ; Dusky Bay, Lyall ; Otago, Lindsay. Xjord Auckland’s group and Camp- 
bell’s Island, J. D. 11. Much the largest New Zealand species. Also a native of Fuegia, 
South Chili, and the Falkland Islands. 
20. G. BJeesiana, Endl. — C. Solandri, Boott ; FI. N. Z. i. 284. Culms 
tall, very slender, leafy, 1-2 ft. high. Leaves long, very narrow, T \j in. diam., 
fiat, grassy, keeled. Spikelets 6-10, distant, on long slender peduncles, nod- 
ding, f— 14 in. long, dark-brown, slender, cylindric, upper 1-4 male, lower 
sometimes compound ; bracts long, leafy. Glumes ovate (rarely emarginate), 
cuspidate or shortly awned, very pale-brown. Utricle as long as the glumes, 
ovate- or elliptic-oblong, smooth, obscurely nerved, dark-brown, shining ; 
beak short, sometimes scabrid or toothed at the edges, 2-cuspidate. Stigmas 
3. — C. Solandri, Boott, 111. Carex, i. t. 175. 
Northern Island : Totara-nui, Opuragi, etc., Banks and Solander, Colenso ; Welling- 
ton, Ralphs, Stephenson. A native of Norfolk Islaud. 
21. C. dissita, Solander ; — FI. N. Z. i. 284. Habit of C. Neesiana, 
but more robust. Leaves broader, 4 in. diam., flat, grassy, membranous, not 
keeled. Spikelets 5-8, distant, shortly peduncled, erect or nodding, short, 
4-1 in. long, stout, cylindric, pale-brown, uppermost one male, the rest 
female or male at the base only. Glumes broadly ovate, 2-fid, shortly awned, 
dark-brown ; keel green. Utricle as large as the glumes, like C. Neesiana, 
but shorter. Stigmas 3. — Boott, 111. Carex, i. t. 176. 
Northern Island : not uncommon in grassy places, Opuragi and Tigada, Banks and 
Solander. Auckland and Great Barrier Islands, Sinclair ; east coast, l'atea, Colenso. 
