‘ Carte, TI4ns. S75 1q426: 
Sehocnwus ftrvkens Hip. S00 Ct ep 7 
Schoenus. | CYPERACEAE. 229 
4. S. paueifiorus Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 298—Rhizome short, 
stout, branched at the tip. Stems densely tufted, very slender, deeply 
grooved, 1-3 it. high, green or purplish-red. Leaves reduced to 2-4 dark 
chestnut-brown or almost black sheaths at the base of the stem, the 
uppermost of which is produced into an erect almost filiform lamina 1-3 in. 
long; the mouths of the sheaths oblique, glabrous. Panicle small, 2-2 in. 
long, of 2-8 spikelets ; bracts usually 2, overtopping the panicle. Spikelets 
- lanceolate, compressed, tin. long, 2-4-flowered, varying in colour from 
whitish to dark chestnut-brown. Glumes 4-6, distichous, ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate, keeled, nerveless except the midrib; margins glabrous ; the 
3 outer slightly smaller, empty. Hypogynous bristles 6, filiform, almost 
equalling the style. Stamens 3. Style-branches 8. Nut elliptic-cblong, 
trigonous with the angles thickened, smooth, polished, pale-brown.— 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 782. Chaetospora pauciflora Hook. f. FI. 
Nov. Zel. i (1853) 273. 
NortTH AND SoutH ISLANDS, STEWART IstanD: An abundant mountain-plant 
from Lake Taupo southwards. Usually from 1500 to 5500ft., but descends to 
sea-level in Stewart Island and the south of Otago. December—March. 
This hardly differs from the Chilian Chaetospora antarctica Hook. f., except in 
the much shorter leaves. 
S. Lehi (4.4.5 97. 6lale . Prec. Pi Soe @ld. SI246 
Deis aviltarle eee: Encycl. Suppl. i (1811) 251.—Stems very slender, pe chart 
pale-green, flaccid, leafy, branched, creeping or diffusely spree: often 
intricate; 2-6 j eeu long or more. Leaves alternate, spreading, 4-lin. long, 
very narrow-linear, obtuse, flat or nearly so, flaccid. Spikelets 1- i together 
in the axils of the leaves, sessile or shortly peduncled, about jin. long, 
compressed, pale-brown, 1-2-flowered, Glumes distichous, eae te, sub- 
acute, keeled ; the 2 or 3 outer empty and smaller. Hypogynous bristles 6 
rarely fewer, longer than the nut. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut 
very small, elliptic-obovoid, ouiuscly trigonous, quite smooth, white or 
gre yish- white .—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 298; Benth. Fl. Austral. 
vil (1878) 375 ; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 788. Chaetospora axillaris 
R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 233; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 274, t. 62a; 
Fl. Tasm. 11 (1860) 82. Scirpus fohiatus Hook. f. an Lond. Journ. Bot. wi 
(1844) ) 414, — x, . a a ae pepe, Pas — 
NorTH AND Sountt IsLanps, STEWART ISLAND, CHATHAM ISLANDS: From the 
North Cape southwards, abundant in the North Island, less plentiful in the South 
Island. Sea-level to 2500 ft. November—March. 
Kasily recognized by the slender creeping or diffuse habit, leafy stems, spikelets in 
twos or threes in the axils of the leaves, and small white nut. Also common in extra- 
tropical Australia and Tasmania. 
6. 8. apogon foem. and Schult. Syst. ii (1817) 77.— Stems very - 
numerous, crowded, weak, slender, sometimes almost filiform, grooved, 
leafy at the base, 6-14in. long. Leaves much shorter than the stems, 
narrow-linear, acute, almost flaccid, channelled in front, convex and striate 
phe the back. Spikelets linear- lanceolate, chestnut-brown or almost black, 
4-4 1n. long, 1-3-flowered, few or many together j in irregular more or (ess 
compact umbels or heads, which are both terminal and lateral from the 
upper leaf-sheaths ; bracts Jeafy. Glumes distichous, oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, keeled, almost black with narrow pale margins ; ‘the 3 outer empty, 
usually much smaller, Hypogynous bristles 6, not much exceeding the 
nut. Stamens 3. Style-branches usually 3. Nut small, broadly oblong- 
