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_ Order IX. JTJNCEiE. 
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289. Juneus vaginatus. — Middle Island ; Otago, Lindsay. 
290. J. planifolius. — Chatham Island, W. Travers. 
291. J. novse-Zelandise. — Canterbury, Mount Harper, Haast. 
291. Rostkovia gracilis. — Canterbury Alps, slopes above Browning’s Pass, 
alt. 5000 ft., Haast. 
292. Luzula campestris. — Chatham Island, W. Travers. 
Order XI. C YPERACE M . 
297. After Cyperus ustulatus, add — 
2. Cyperus tenellus, Linn. hi. A small, very slender, tufted annual. 
Culms numerous, capillary, 2 in. high. Leaves small, setaceous. Spikelets 
1-3, near the apex of the culm, large for the size of the plant, -i- in. long, 
oblong, obtuse, very much flattened. Scales 12-20, oblong-lanceolate, ob- 
tuse or apiculate, green with red-brown at the base, and hyaline margins, 
deeply grooved. Nut minute, 3-gonous, almost perfectly smooth. Stigmas 3. 
Northern Island : abundant in the Newton and Dedwood districts, Auckland, Mr. Kirlc. 
(West Australia, South. Africa.) — A beautiful little plant, resembling an Alepyruin , pro- 
bably introduced both into Swan River and New Zealand. 
301. Eleocliaris gracilis. — Mr. Carruthers, of the British Museum, has done 
me the service of comparing a series of New Zealand specimens with Brown’s 
E. gracilis , and informs me that none agree, but that most of them may be 
referred to obtuse-scaled forms of Brown’s E. acuta , from which however they 
further differ in the scales not being keeled. Its best character is the trun- 
cate mouth of the sheath with a foliaceous mucro. My var. gracillima, again, 
is a very different plant, with an oblique mouth to the sheath and broad pale 
small spikelets. The two species may be diagnosed as follows : — 
2. E. acuta, Br., var. platylepis. Culms tufted, stout or slender, 4-18 in. 
high ; mouth of sheath truncate with a foliaceous mucro. Spikelet very variable 
in length, ovoid oblong or cylindric, acute or obtuse ; scales numerous, broad, 
rounded at the apex, convex, dark brown with broad scarious margins. Nut 
obtusely 3-gonous or compressed; bristles 4-8, longer than the nut. — E. gra- 
cilis, FI. N. Z. and Tasman., not of Brown; E. subsphacelata, Steudel. 
Northern, Middle, and Chatham Islands. (Australia, Tasmania.) 
2. E. gracillima, Hook. f. Culm very slender, 4-10 in. high, from a 
stout or slender creeping scaly rhizome ; mouth of sheath oblique, scarious. 
Spikelet short, ovate ; scales few, oblong, obtuse or subacute, pale and scari- 
ous. Nut obtusely 3-gonous or compressed ; bristles 8, longer than the nut. 
— E. gracilis, var. gracillima, and var. radicans, FI. N. Z. 
Northern, Middle, and Chatham Islands : not so common as E. acuta. 
303. Desmosehcenus spiralis. — Chatham Island, W. Travers. 
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