Juncus. | JUNCACEAE. 297 
9. J. planifolius &. Br. Prodr. (1810) 259. — Tufted, perfectly glabrous, 
6-18in. high. Roots many, long, fibrous. Leaves all radical, much 
shorter than the stems, numerous, flat and grassy, membranous, ;45-¢ mM. 
broad, dilated at the base into long imbricating sheaths. Flowering stems 
or culms long, slender, naked, bearing at the top an irregularly umbellately 
branched compound cyme; bracts at the base of the mflorescence usually 
1 or 2, short, leafy, sometimes small and scarious. Flowers small, +5 in. 
long, chestnut-brown, crowded in many-flowered heads at the ends of the 
branches of the cymes. Perianth-segments subequal or the outer rather 
shorter, oblong-lanceolate, acute. Stamens 3. Capsule equalling the 
perianth or very slightly longer than it, obovoid, trigonous, mucronate. 
Seeds numerous, minute, ovoid, very minutely reticulated Raoul Chovr 
(1846) 40; Hook. f. Fl. Nov, Zel. i (1853) 263; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 
290; Benth. Fl. Austral. vii (1878) 125; Buchen. Monog. Junc. (1890) 
433; Pflanzenr. Heft 25 (1906) 249; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl, (1906) 728. 
Var. chathamensis Buchen. Monog. Junc. (1890) 434.—Slender, about 12 in. high. 
Leaves narrow, ;j,in. diam. Perianth-segments deeply coloured, a brown stripe down 
the centre, margins chestnut-black.—Pflanzenr, Heft 25 (1906) 250. 
Norte AND Sourn Isianps, Stewart Istanp, CHatrHam Istanps, AUCKLAND 
* Istanps: Abundant in moist places throughout. Sea-level to 3000 ft. Novem ber— 
January. Var. chathamensis :. Chatham Islands, H. H. Travers. 
An abundant plant throughout the greater part of Australia and Tasmania, also 
found in Chile. 
10. J. caespiticius #. Mey. in Lehm, Pl. Preiss. 1 (1846) 47; var. 
practeatus Buchen. Monog. Junc. (1890) 439.—A tufted perennial 6-18 in. 
high ; roots numerous, fibrous. Leaves all radical, much shorter than the 
stem, very numerous, grassy, erect, gradually tapering from a long and 
broad sheathing base to a long subulate acuminate point, margins involute. 
Flowering stems long, slender, naked. Cyme contracted into a dense con- 
globate head 4-14 in. diam. ; bracts at the base 1-3, lealy, much exceeding 
the cyme. Flowers rather longer than in J. planifolius, about $ in. long, 
crowded in many-flowered fascicles. Perianth-segments unequal, the 3 
outer distinctly shorter. Stamens 6, about $ the length of the segments. 
Capsule equalling the perianth or slightly exceeding it, ovoid-trigonous, 
obtuse, mucronate. Seeds minute, but rather larger than in J. planifolius, 
ovoid, smooth or very indistinctly reticulated. — Benth. Fl. Austral, vii 
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11. J. antareticus Hook. f. Fl. Antarcit. 1 (1844) 79, t. 46.—A small 
densely tufted perennial 1-4 in. high’; roots long, fibrous. Leaves very 
numerous, all radical, equalling or shorter than the stems, suberect or 
curved, linear-subulate, flat towards the base, semiterete or obscurely 
canaliculate above, cylindric towards the apex, obtuse, pith not jointed 
within; sheathing base long, broad, margins scarious. Stem terete, 
