274 CYPERACEAE. | Carex. 
41. ©. dissita Sol. ex Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 284.— Densely 
tufted. Culms slender, smooth, leafy, 1-24 ft. high. Leaves longer or 
shorter than the culms, dark-green, flat, broad, grassy, deeply grooved, 4-4 in. 
diam.; margins scabrid above. Spikelets 4-8, distant, 4-1 in. long, 4-4 in. 
broad, dark-brown; terminal one male, slender, rarely with 1 or 2 much 
smaller ones near its base; remainder all female, but often with male 
flowers below, rarely at the top, shortly peduncled and erect, or the lower 
on longer peduncles and nodding; bracts long, leafy. Glumes broadly 
ovate, deeply bifid or almost entire, membranous, dark chestnut-brown 
with paler margins; midrib stout, produced into a short or rather long 
stout hispid awn.  Utricles about equalling the glumes, ovoid, turgid, 
biconvex, obscurely nerved, pale- or dark-brown, sometimes almost black ; 
margins often serrate above; beak short, with 2 stout often widely 
divergent teeth. Styles 3. Nut ovoid, trigonous.—Boott Ill. Car. i (1858) 
65, t. 176; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z, FI. (1864) 316; Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. 
Inst. xvi (1884) 487; Man. N.Z. Fl, (1906) 830; Kukenth. in Pflanzenr. 
Heft 38 (1909) 691. C. longeacuminata Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxi 
(1889) 104. C. polyneura Col. Lc. 
Var. Lambertiana, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z, Inst. xvi (1884) 437.—Stouter. Leaves 
broader, 4-4in. Spikelets longer and stouter, 1-24in. long. Glumes more deeply 
bifid —C. Lambertiana_Booltt in Hook. f. £1. Nov. Zel, i (1853) 284; Ill. Car, 1 (1858) 
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Var. ochrosaceus,,Cheesem. — Culms usually overtopped by the leaves. Spikelets 
4-9, pale, erect, short-stalked, lower often compound. Glumes with longer awns 
exceeding the utricles. Utricles pale, rather narrower.—C. ochrosaccus C. B. Clarke 
MS. in Herb. Kew. Tren wz. Ste 5 & FIG 
Var. monticola Kukenthal in Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 831.—Smaller, 6-18 in. 
high. Leaves narrower. Spikelets 3-5, small, }-4in. long, sessile or very shortly 
peduncled. 3 
Norra anp Sourn Istanps, Stewart Istanp: The typical form and var. 
Lambertiana abundant throughout. Var. ochrosaccus : Whangarei, H. Carse / Kaipara, 
1, Kirk! vicinity of Auckland, 7. F. C. Var. monticola: Not uncommon in turfy 
swamps in the mountains of both Islands. Sea-level to 3500 ft. October- 
January. 
A most abundant dnd variable species. It can be distinguished from its allies 
by the broad flat grassy leaves, usually solitary male spikelets, distant stout dark- 
coloured female spikelets, which are generally on short peduncles, broad often deeply 
bifid glumes with a hispid awn of varying length, and broadly ovoid turgid utricles, 
which are usually obscurely nerved. Kukenthal unites my var. ochrosaccus with the 
Norfolk Island C. Neesiana, placing it as C. dissita var. Neesiana. But a Norfolk 
Island specimen received many years ago from Baron Mueller does not support this 
view. 
42. ©. Solandri Boott in Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 984.—Densely 
tufted. Culms tall, slender, trigonous, slightly scabrid above, leafy, 
1-3 ft. high, often elongating in fruit and becoming prostrate. Leaves 
long, narrow, keeled, 7o-¢ in. broad ; margins and keel sharply scabrid. 
Spikelets 5-10, distant, on long slender peduncles, long and narrow, 3—2 in. 
long by about 4in. broad, dark-brown; terminal 1-4 male, slender, usually 
closely placed; remainder all female, but generally with a few male 
flowers below, nodding, the 2 or 3 lowest often compound, on longer 
filiform peduncles; bracts long and leafy. Glumes broadly ovate, entire 
or bifid, membranous, dark or pale chestnut-brown ; midrib produced into 
an awn of variable length. Utricles about equalling the glumes, ovoid, 
