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, 75-4 In. 
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 inflorescence usually 
1 or 2, short, leafy, sometimes small and scarious. Flowers small, 4 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 Chow 
(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, ;4,in. diam. Perianth-segments deeply coloured, a brown stripe down 
the centre, margins chestnut-black.—Pflanzenr. Heft 25 (1906) 250. 
North AND Sovutu IsiaAnps, Stewarr Istanp, CHarHam IsLtanps, 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. eaespiticius #. Mey. i 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, leaty, 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 3 the length of the segments. 
Capsule equalling the perianth or shghtly 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 
(1878) 126; Buchen. Monog. Junc. (1890) 439; Pflanzenr. Heft 25 (1906) 
252: Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 729. 
NorrH AND SourH Istanps: From the Bay of Islands to Otago, rather local. 
November—January. 
Closely allied to J. planifolius, with which it has been confounded by most New 
Zealand botanists. It can be distinguished by the narrower involute leaves, densely 
congested cymes, rather larger flowers, the stamens always 6 in number, and in the 
fewer and larger smoother seeds. The typical state, which is common in Australia, 
las the cyme laxly branched, with shorter bracts. 
1l. J. antareticus Hook. f. Fl. Antarci. 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 Jong, broad, margins scarious. Stem _ terete, 
