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266 CYPERACEAE. [Carex. 
flowers below, stout, erect, all approximate and sessile, or less crowded 
with the lowest one remote and pedunculate, green or greenish-brown, 
1-1in, long, din. broad; bracts long and leaty. Glumes broadly ovate, 
thin and membranous, pale-brown, bifid; midrib stout, produced into a 
short or long hispid awn. Utricle broader and longer than the glumes, 
elliptic, unequally biconvex, strongly nerved, narrowed into a stout 2-toothed 
beak; margins serrate above or almost even. Styles 2. Nut broadly 
oblong, lenticular—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl, (1864) 514 ; Cheesem, in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 483; Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 821; Kukenth. im 
Pflanzenr, Heft 38 (1909) 687 ; Cheesem. Ill. N.Z. Fl. u (1914) t. 215. 
Sourn IstAnp: Nelson—Graham River, Wangapeka River, Mount Owen, Jollie’s 
Pass, 7’. F. C. ; Fowler’s Pass, T. Kirk! Lake Tennyson, R. M. Laing. Marlborough— 
Mount Fyffe, 7’. Kirk / Canterbury—Akaroa, Raoul ; Southern Alps, Sinclair and Haast ; 
Mount Torlesse, 7’. Kirk! Kowai River, Cockayne! Broken River, Upper Waimakariri, 
Lake Tekapo, Hooker Valley, 7. F. C. Otago—Lake Wakatipu, Lake Wanaka, Mount 
Ida, Buchanan! Petrie! Bluff Hill, Cockayne. 200-4000 ft. December—February. 
A distinct species, easily recognized by the broad flat leaves, by the terminal 
spikelet being always partly female, and by the strongly nerved elliptic utricles, usually 
serrate above. Mr. Clarke informs me that all Raoul’s specimens at Kew have the 
utricles hairy on the upper half, but I have seen no specimens showing this peculiarity. 
95. ©. dipsacea Berggr.: in Minneskr. Fisiog. Sallsk. Lund. (1877) 
98, t. 7, f. 8-14—Densely tufted. Culms slender, smooth, erect, leafy, 
1-2 ft. high, scarcely elongating in fruit. Leaves numerous, longer than 
the culms, rather narrow, yg-tin. broad, flat, keeled, striate; margins 
and keel sharply scabrid. Spikelets 4-7, close together except the lowest. 
which is usually remote, dense-flowered, pale or dark-brown; terminal 
one male, slender, sometimes mixed with female flowers; remainder 
female, but often with a few male flowers below, short and broad, 4-1 in. 
long, sessile or the two lower shortly pedunculate ; bracts long and leafy, 
far overtopping the inflorescence. Glumes rather shorter than the utricles, 
orbicular-ovate, obtuse, membranous, pale or dark chestnut-brown, midrib 
vanishing at the apex or shortly excurrent; margins scarious, pale. 
Utricles densely packed, spreading when ripe, elliptic-ovoid, unequally 
biconvex or almost plano-convex, smooth, nerveless; margins sharply 
and distantly serrate above; beak short, 2-toothed. Styles 2.” Nut 
obovoid-oblong, lenticular.—Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 482 ; 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 822; Kukenth. in Pflanzenr. Heft 38 (1909) 686. 
Norra anp Sourn Isnanps: From the Lower Waikato to Foveaux Strait, not 
uncommon. Sea-level to 3000 ft. November—January. 
Very close to C. testacea, but usually recognized without difficulty by the densely 
packed utricles, spreading on all sides when ripe. 
96. C. testacea Sol. ex Boott in Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 282.— 
Laxly tufted. Culms very slender, sometimes filiform, smooth or slightly 
scabrid above, 6-18in. high, in some varieties elongating in fruit and 
becoming prostrate, occasionally reaching a length of 4-5 ft. Leaves 
longer or shorter than the culms, #;-}in. broad, flat, usually keeled, 
genet margins harsh and scabrid. Spikelets 3-5, approximate, pale- 
rown; terminal one male, slender; remainder all female, sometimes 
with a few male flowers below, rarely above, short and broad, 4-1 in, long, 
11in, broad, sessile or the lowest shortly peduncled ; bracts long and 
leafy, far overtopping the inflorescence. Glumes broadly ovate, thin and 
membranous, deeply emarginate or bifid, with a long or short awn from 
