296 JUNCACEAR. | Juncus, 
shorter than the flowers. Perianth-segments lanceolate, acuminate, with 
broad scarious margins ; the 3 inner rather shorter than the outer. Stamens 
usually 6, but sometimes 3 only in the terminal flowers. Capsule shorter 
than the erect perianth-segments, oblong, obtuse. Seeds numerous, minute, 
ovoid-oblong, obtuse, delicately lineolate-—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 
264; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 290; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 127; 
Buchen. Monog. June. (1890) 174; Pflanzenr. Heft 25 (1906) 105; Cheesem, 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 728. 
NortH AND SoutH Is~tanps, CHATHAM ISLANDS, STEWART IsLAND, AUCKLAND 
IsLANDS: From the Three Kings Islands and the North Cape southwards, abundant. 
Sea-level to 4000 ft. November—January. 
Almost universally distributed in temperate climates. Doubtless introduced with 
grass-seed in the early days of colonization; but it now extends through the whole 
of the Dominion. 
7. J. plebeius Rk. Br. Prodr. (1810) 259. — Densely tufted. Stems 
5-10 in. high, smooth, strict, erect, compressed, leafy at the base. Leaves 
shorter than the stem, narrow, semi-terete, deeply channelled; sheaths 
close, convolute, produced into two obtuse auricles at the top. Inflores- 
cence terminal. Flowers in clusters of 2-6 near the end of the stem, the 
flowers sessile in the clusters and usually spreading. Perianth-segments 
about gin. long, lanceolate, rigid, coriaceous, long acuminate, the inner 
ones somewhat shorter. Stamens usually 3; filaments linear-filiform. 
Capsule rather shorter than the perianth, ovoid-trigonous. — Buchen. 
Pflanzenr. Heft 25 (1906) 115, t. 62. J. homalocaulis 7. Muell. in First 
_ Gen. Rep. Victoria (1853) 19; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 128; Buchen. 
Monoq. June. (1890) 192. | 
NortH Istanp: Mongonui County, near Kaitaia and at Ahipara, H. Carse / 
Buchenau, in the Pflanzenreich, also records it from New Zealand, but without special 
locality, on the authority of ‘“‘ Monrad in herb. Hann.” It has probably been over- 
looked by other collectors. 
8. J. tenuis Willd. Sp. Plant. ii (1799) 214.— A laxly tufted perennial, 
with a short rhizome and numerous wiry roots. Stems several in a tutt, 
slender, erect, wiry, terete, 9-18in. high. Leaves few, mostly radical, 
usually shorter than the stem, very narrow-linear, srassy, flat or more 
generally involute or channelled; base sheathing, membranous. Cymes 
terminal, lax, much exceeded by the leafy filiform bracts. Flowers 
s-¢ in. long, pale-green, remote or clustered. Perianth-segments lanceolate, 
acuminate, slightly spreading in fruit. Stamens 6, about 4 the length of 
the perianth-segments ; anthers ovate. Style very short. Capsule ovoid- 
trigonous or almost globose, obtuse or slightly retuse, rather shorter than 
the perianth-segments, pale stramineous. Seeds obliquely obovoid, minutely 
apiculate.—Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xi (1879) 433; Buchen. Monog. 
Junc. (1890) 193; Pflanzenr. Heft 25 (1906) 115; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. 
Fl. (1906) 728. J. involucratus 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. ix (1877) 
550 (not of Steud.). 
Nort anp Sourn Istanps: In various localities from Mangonui to Dunedin, 
not uncommon. Sea-level to 3000 ft. November—January. 
An abundant North American plant, extending into some parts of South America, 
found also in western Kurope, &c. It is a very doubtful native of New Zealand, and - 
has certainly increased its range considerably of late years. 
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