Carex. | CYPERACEAE, 279 
in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 440; Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 835; Kukenth. 
in Pflanzenr. Heft 38 (1909) 694. C. spinirostris Col. in Trans. N.Z. Lust. 
xv (1883) 335. 
Norru Isnanp: Not uncommon on declivities in dry woods, especially near 
the sea. October-November. 
A very distinct species, easily recognized by the long and very slender red-brown 
spikelets, narrow entire glumes, and fusiform strongly ribbed long-beaked utricles. 
52. ©. Cockayniana Kukenth. in Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 836. 
—Culms slender, trigonous, smooth or slightly scabrid, leafy, 1-2 ft. high. 
Leaves usually longer than the culms, 4-4 in. broad, flat, striate; margins 
scabrid above. Spikelets 5-8, 14-3in. long, about }im. broad, usually 
remote but sometimes the upper approximate, bright red-brown or pale- 
brown; terminal one male, generally with female flowers at the top, 
which sometimes occupy quite } the spikelet; remainder all female, 
usually with male flowers at the base, all on filiform peduncles and 
nodding, or the upper almost sessile and erect; bracts long, leaty. 
Glumes ovate-lanceolate, entire or emarginate, membranous, red-brown ; 
keel greenish, produced into a short awn. Utricles equalling the glumes 
or rather shorter than them, spreading when ripe, stipitate, narrow-elliptic, 
trigonous, strongly costate-nerved, pale yellow-brown, narrowed imto a 
short stout minutely 2-toothed beak. Styles 3. Nut trigonous.—C. cinna- 
momea Oheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv (1882) 301 (not of Olney). 
C. Forsteri Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst, xvi (1884) 440 (in part). 
C. Forsteri var. Cockayniana Kukenth. in Pflanzenr. Hett 38 (1909) 925 
Sourn IsnAND: Nelson—Graham River; sources of the Takaka River, 7. F. C. ; 
Mount Kelvin (near Westport), W. Townson! Westland—Kelly’s Hill, Petrze / 
Cockayne! Franz Josef Glacier, Cockayne. Otago — Clinton Valley, Petrie / 
500-4000 ft. November—January. 
This differs from C. vacilans in the stouter habit, broader leaves, thicker spikelets, 
and broader and shorter utricles, which want the slender deeply bifid beak of that 
species. Kukenthal is now disposed to reunite it with C. Forsteri. As I have stated 
elsewhere, it is very much a matter of personal taste as to whether the two plants should 
be combined or kept apart. My own opinion is that the claims of C. Cockayniana 
to be regarded as distinct are quite as good as those of several species universally 
accepted. 
53. C. semi-Forsteri C. B. Clarke in Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
836.—Culms tufted, stout, triquetrous, slightly scabrid above, 1-3 it. high. 
Leaves numerous, usually longer than the culms, broad, $-$in. diam. or 
even more, flat, coarsely ribbed or striate, often with a stout rib on either 
side of the midrib; margins and midrib beneath sharply scabrid. Spike- 
lets 5-10, the lowermost distant, long-peduncled, simple or compound ; 
the remainder more or less aggregated, the lower ones usually compound, 
the upper simple, 1-3 in. long, ¢-$in. broad; terminal | or 2 male at the 
base; with the upper half or sometimes three-quarters female; the 
remainder all female, but usually with a few male flowers at the base; 
bracts very long and leafy. Glumes ovate-lanceolate, membranous, 3-nerved, 
pale ferruginous or whitish-green ; midrib pale, produced into a short or 
long serrulate awn. Ubtricles longer or shorter than the glumes, narrowed 
at both ends, elliptic-oblong, trigonous, about 15-16-nerved ; beak long, 
scabrid, with two somewhat spreading teeth—Kew Bulletin Additional 
Series, viii (1908) 78. CO. Forsteri var. insularis Oliver in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
xlii (1910) 164. CC, Kermadecensis Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlvii 
(1915) 56. ~ 
