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H. Hamilton’s collection contains an excellent series of specimens, which 1 have 
carefully compared with others from the Auckland and Campbell Islands. With the 
exception that the Macquarie Island plant is obviously smaller (which might be predicted 
from its more southerly habitat), I can see no differences of importance. 
JUNCAGEkF. 
JUNCUS SCHEUCHZERIOIDES Gaud. 
Juncus scheuchzerioides Gaud, in Ann. Sc. Nat. V (1825), p. 100; Hook. f. FI. Antarct. I 
(1844), p. 80, and II (1847), p. 358, also Phil. Trans. Koy. Soc., vol. 168 (1879), 
p. 21; Buchen. Monog. June. (1890), p. 61, and Pflanzenr. Heft 25 (1906), p. 171, 
t. 86; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. (1906), p. 731. 
Macquarie Island :— Marshy ground, north end. H. Hamilton (1912-1913). 
H. Hamilton’s specimens, referred to above, are the first collected in Macquarie 
Island. They exactly correspond with examples gathered by Kirk on Antipodes Island, 
and by Aston on Auckland Island; but hardly agree with Buchenau’s fine plate 
in the Pfianzenreich, being smaller, less branched, and with much less conspicuous 
leaf-sheaths. Buchenau appears to doubt the identity of the New Zealand plant with 
the South American, but does not state how they differ. J. scheuchzerioides is very 
closely allied to J. novce-zealandice and J. pusillus, and small specimens, especially 
when in young flower, may easily be confused with either of them. 
.7. scheuchzerioides ranges southwards from Argentina to Fuegia and Falkland 
Islands. It has also been recorded from South Georgia, Kerguelen Island, and the 
Crozets, but there is a doubt as to whether the specimens from some of these localities 
would not be more correctly placed under J. novce-zealandice or J. pusillus. It was 
gathered by Hooker on Auckland Island and Campbell Island, and by Kirk on 
Antipodes Island. In the Handbook of the New Zealand Flora, Hooker records it 
from the Lake District of Otago, on the authority of specimens collected by Hector and 
Buchanan, but it does not seem to have been met with of late years. 
Ltjzula campestris d.c. 
ear. crinita Hook. f. 
Luzula campestris D.C. FI. Franc. Ill (1905), p. 161, var .crinita (Hook, f.) Buchen. in 
Osterr. Bot. Zeit. (1898), p. 215, also Pflanzenr. Heft 25 (1906), p. 93; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. FI. (1906), p. 737, and Subantarct. Islands of N.Z. II (1909), p. 432. 
L. crinita Hook. f. FI. Antarct. I (1844), p. 84, t. 48, and II (1847), p. 545, also 
Handbk. N.Z. FI. (1864), p. 293; Buchenau Monog. June. (1890), p. 151. 
Macquarie Island: —Plentiful, especially in damp peaty places. Fraser; Scott 
(1880); A. Hamilton (1894); H. Hamilton (1912-1913). 
