Luzula. | JUNCACEAE., © 303 
Nortru Istanp: Mount Egmont, Cockayne. SoutH Istanp : Nelson—Mountains 
above the Wairau Gorge, 7. F. C.; Mount Captain, 7. Kirk / Canterbury—Mount 
Torlesse, Haast! J. F. C.; Craigieburn Mountains, Cockayne! Mount Arrowsmith, 
Cockayne and R. M. Laing ! Mount Darwin, Haast! Mount Dobson, 7. £.C. Otago— 
Not uncommon on the central and western mountains, Petrie / 4000-6500 ft. 
January—lebruary. 
Best recognized by the stems distinctly overtopping the leaves, lanceolate-subulate 
perianth-segments, which are dark-chestnut with a very inconspicuous pale margin, and 
short almost black capsule. 
4. L. Cheesemanii Buchen. Monog. Junc. (1890) 146.—Small, densely 
tufted, forming compact patches. Stems slender, erect, 1-2in. high. 
Leaves shorter than the stems or equalling them, 4-1} in. long, linear- 
subulate, obtuse at the tip, rigid, concave in front, rounded on the back, 
erooved, margins ciliated throughout with long white hairs. Inflorescence 
of from 1 to 3 2-6-flowered fascicles congested into a terminal head; lowest 
bract leafy, often reddish, equalling the head ; the remainder small, white, 
membranous. Flowers 4in. long. Perianth-segments about equal, ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, thin, with a blackish-chestnut stripe down the centre 
and very broad silvery-white margins. Stamens 6, about 4 as long as 
the perianth-segments. Capsule shorter than the perianth, ovoid-globose, 
trigonous, mucronate, dark chestnut-brown or almost black. Seeds 
obliquely ovoid, minutely carunculate at the base.—Pflanzenr. Heit 25 
(1906) 98; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 735; Ill. N.Z. Fl. u (1914) 
t. 2048. 
SoutH Isranp: Nelson—Summit of Gordon’s Nob, 7. F. C. Marlborough— 
Mount Mouatt, 7’. Kirk / Canterbury—Black Range, 7’. F.C. ; Craigieburn Mountains, 
Petrie: Mount Peel, H. H. Allan. Otago—Movnt Kyeburn, Dunstan Mountains, 
Petrie ! 4000-6000 ft. December-February. 
Closely allied te L. pumila, from which it differs in the more compound inflorescence, 
and in the much broader perianth-segments, with very conspicuous silvery-white margins. 
5. L. leptophyila Buchen. and Petrie in Oesterr. Bot. Zeit. (1898) 214, 
243, t. 7.—Small, slender, stoloniferous, 1-4in. high. Leaves all radical, 
much shorter than the stems, $-2in. long, very narrow, almost filiform, 
tip obtuse, margins convolute, glabrous or nearly so, mouth of the sheath 
with a tuft of slender hairs. Inflorescence terminal, of a single 3-8- 
flowered head, or more rarely the head consists of 2 closely compacted 
clusters ; bract at the base of the head small, leafy. Flowers small, about 
sin. long. Perianth-segments about equal or the outer a little shorter, 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, central portion dark chestnut-brown or 
almost black; margins broad, pale, membranous. Stamens 3, filaments 
filiform. Capsule equalling the perianth, rounded-obovoid, shining, dark- 
chestnut, sometimes almost black Buchen. in Pflanzenr. Heft 25 (1906) 81; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 736. 
Scouts Isutanp : Otago—Mount Kyeburn, Petrie / 2000-3500 ft. Decem ber-- 
January. 
A very curious little plant, of which I have seen no specimens except Mr. Petrie’s. 
It appears to differ from reduced states of L. campestris in the exceedingly slender stems, 
almost filiform leaves, and 3 stamens. 
6. L. eampestris DC. Fl. Fr. ii (1805) 161.—Excessively variable in 
all its parts. Stems more or less densely tufted, stout or slender, very 
variable in size, usually from 6-14 in. high, but often reduced to 2 in., and 
sometimes reaching 18 or 20in. Leaves mostly radical, always shorter 
