280 CYPERACEAR, [ Carex. 
Kermaperc Istanps: Apparently abundant in Sunday Island, 7. F. C., Miss 
Shakespear! W. R. B. Oliver! Norra Istanp: Mr. Clarke quotes “‘ Stephenson n. 44, 
partim; Hooker n. 4189; Colenso n. 1622,’’ but I have seen no specimens from the 
mainiand of New Zealand that I can refer to the species. My statement in the Manual 
to the effect that the species is not uncommon in the North and South Islands is 
incorrect, and was due to a misapprehension of Mr. Clarke’s correspondence. 
54. C. Forsteri Wahl. in Vet. Akad. Nya Handl. Stockh. (1803) 154.— 
Culms tufted, stout or rather slender, trigonous, grooved, scabrid above, 
leafy, 13-3 ft. high. Leaves longer or shorter than the culms, broad, 4-4 in. 
diam., flat, harsh, striate; margins and midrib beneath sharply scabrid, 
Spikelets 5-10, distant, 13-3 in. long, ¢-$1in. broad, green or pale ferrugin- 
ous; terminal 1-3 (usually 2) male, slender; remainder all female but 
commonly with male flowers either above or below, the upper 2-3 sessile 
or nearly so, the rest pedunculate, sometimes compound ; bracts very long 
and leafy. Glumes ovate-lanceolate, membranous, ferruginous with a pale- 
green centre; midrib stout, produced into a short or rather long awn. 
Utricles equalling or exceeding the glumes, spreading when ripe, almost 
sessile or very shortly stipitate, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate-oblong, trigon- 
ous, nerved; beak $-% the length of the utricle, linear, with 2 lanceolate 
acute teeth. Styles 3. Nut obovoid-oblong, trigonous. — Boott in Hook. 
f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 285; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 315 (in part) ; 
Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 440; Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 837 ; 
Kukenth. in Pflanzenr, Heft 38 (1909) 694. C. debilis Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) 
n. 550 (name only). C. punctulata A. Rich. Fl. Now. — Zel. (1832) 119, 
4. 90. Sa. 
NortH AND SoutsH Istanps: Not uncommon from the Three Kings Islands and 
the North Cape southwards to Foveaux Strait. Sea-level to 2000 ft. November- 
January. 
od. C. pseudo-cyperus Linn. Sp. Plant. (1753) 978.—Culms tufted, 
stout, triquetrous, scabrid on the angles, leafy, 1-3 ft. high. Leaves often 
longer than the culms, flat, broad, grassy, 4-4 in. diam.; margins scabrid. 
Spikelets 3-5, rarely more, usually clustered towards the top of the stem 
or the lowest one remote, 1-2} in. long, pale-green; terminal one male, 
rarely female at the top, slender; remainder all female, long-peduncled 
and nodding, or in small specimens subsessile and erect, dense-flowered ; 
bracts long, leafy. Glumes small, greenish-white, linear-oblong, suddenly 
narrowed into a stout serrulate awn. Uvtricles usually exceeding the glumes, 
spreading or even reflexed when ripe, stipitate, ovate-lanceolate, trigonous, 
somewhat inflated, strongly ribbed, greenish; beak 4-3} as long as the 
utricle, deeply split at the apex into two long and narrow almost pungent 
teeth. Styles 3. Nut small, obovoid, trigonous.—R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 
243 ; Boott Ill. Car. iv (1867) 140, t. 451-52; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 
448; Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 441; Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
837; Kukenth. in yt stadia Heft 38 (1909) 695. 
Var. faseioutaris oott Ill, Car. iv (1867) 141.— Rather taller and stouter. Spike- 
lets 2-4 in. Tong, often pale red-brown when mature, farther apart and on longer 
peduncles, that of the lowest sometimes 4-8in. long. Ubtricles broader and more 
truncate at. the base, suddenly narrowed into a longer linear stalk; beak narrower.— 
Kukenth. in Pflanzenr. Heft 38 (1909) 696. C. fascicularis Sol, in Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 
i (1853) 283; Fl. Tasm. ii (1860) 101. C. Forsteri var. fascicularis Hook. f. Handb, 
N.Z. Fl. (1864) 315. 
NortH AND Sour Istanps: The species and variety not uncommon in swampy 
localities throughout. Sea-level to 3000 ft. November—February. 
