Juncus. | JUNCACEAE. 295 
or stramineous. Seeds numerous, obliquely obovoid, shortly apiculate ; 
pale ferruginous.—Pflanzenr. Heft 25 (1906) 141. J. effusus Hook. f. 
Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 263 (in part); Buchen. Monog. Junc. (1890) 
228; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 726 (not of Linn.). J. communis 
E. Mey. June. (1819) 20; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 128; Hook. f. 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 290. J. luxurians Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx 
(1887) 269. ome FG 2 a a 
Var. Cheesemanii Buchen. l.c. (1895) 262.— Flowers approximate in few distant 
spherical glomerules.—Pflanzenr. Heft 25 (1906) 142. J. pauciflorus var. Cheesemanii 
Buchen. Monog. Junc. (1890) 23. 
NortH AND SourH Is~anps, Stewart Is~anp: Abundant in damp places 
throughout. Sea-level to 3000 it. Wiwi. November—February. 
The most abundant species of the genus in New Zealand, everywhere to be seen 
by the margins of swamps, or in undrained soils that are wet in winter. Whether 
it is identical with Buchenau’s plant is not quite certain; but the common New 
Zealand form, easily distinguished by the slender rigid and wiry stems with interrupted 
pith, and with the capsule rounded and imperfectly 3-celled, agrees so closely with 
his description that I am unable to separate them. But apparently Buchenau has 
doubts on the subject, for in his recent monograph of the family (Das Pflanzenreich, 
Heft 25, p. 142) he remarks that J. polyanthemos is abundant in most of the Australian 
colonies, and especially so in Queensland, while in New Zealand only var. Cheesemanir 
is known. His position on this point is puzzling, seeing that he was provided with 
abundant specimens, and does not allude to them, either in his description of 
J. polyanthemos or under any of the allied species. 
5. J. maritimus Lam. Hneycl. 11 (1789) 264; var. australiensis 
Buchen. Monog. Junc. (1890) 257.— Densely tufted, tall, stout, dark- 
coloured, 1-4 ft. high. Rhizome short, thick, horizontal. Stems crowded 
on the rhizome, rigid, wiry, terete, pungent, furnished at the base with 
several chestnut-brown sheathing scales, the upper 1 or 2 of which are 
produced into terete leaves similar to. the stems but shorter than them. 
Inflorescence lateral; cymes large, lax, irregularly branched; branches 
strict, erect. Flowers about 4in. long, dark chestnut-brown, usually agegre- 
gated into little clusters. Perianth-segments lanceolate, acute, the mner 
rather shorter. Stamens 6; anthers linear. Capsule ovoid - trigonous, 
acute, only slightly exceeding the perianth, dark chestnut-brown. Seeds 
obovoid, very shortly tailed.—Pflanzenr. Heft 25 (1906) 155; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 727. J. maritimus A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 145 ; 
A. Cunn. Precur. (1836) n. 292; Raoul Chore (1846) 40; Hook. f, Fl. Nov. 
Zel. 1 (1853) 263; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 289. 
NorrH anp SoutH Isuanps: Brackish-water marshes or sands from the North 
Cape to Banks Peninsula and Okarito, abundant. Inland on the shores of Lake 
Rotorua, and by the Waikato River near Orakeikorako. December—January. 
Also common on most parts of the Australian coast. It differs from the typical 
state of the species, which has a wide distribution in the North Temperate Zone, in 
the darker colour of the whole plant, in the smaller and more densely aggregated 
darker flowers, in the shorter capsule, and in the less evident tails to the seeds. 
— %6. J. bufenius Linn. Sp. Plant. (1753) 328.—Annual, pale-green, much 
branched from the base, often forming dense tufts, 3-12in. high; roots 
fibrous. Leaves radical and cauline, very narrow-linear or almost filiform, 
sheathing at the base, flat or channelled above, grassy, setaceous, pith not 
jointed. Cyme large, occupying the greater part of the stem; branches 
long or short, sometimes flexuous. Flowers §—j1in. long, sessile or nearly 
so, solitary or in fascicles of 2-3; bracteoles broadly ovate, scarious, much 
