306 JUNCACEAE. [ Luzula. 
radical and a few cauline, all much shorter than the stem, 1-6 in. long, 
rarely more, ;4-}in. broad at the base and from thence gradually tapering 
upwards, apex subulate, not obtuse as in the forms of L. campestris ; margins 
flat or involute, ciliate with long hairs. Inflorescence terminal, erect or 
nodding, compound, of several short and dense spikes either all congested 
into an ovoid head, or the lower 1 to 3 distinct and sometimes peduncled. 
Lower bracts foliaceous, often overtopping the inflorescence; upper 
membranous, with very broad white margins and apices, densely ciliate 
with long hairs. Flowers small, jin. long. Perianth-segments equal, 
or the outer slightly longer, lanceolate, awned, pale-chestnut with white 
and silvery margins. Stamens 3, rarely more. Capsule equalling the 
perianth, ovoid-globose, trigonous, mucronate, pale- or dark-chestnut, 
sometimes almost black. Seeds oblong-ovoid, ferruginous.—L. racemosa 
Desv. Journ. Bot. 1 (1808) 162; var. Traversii Buchen. Monog. June. 
(1890) 133, and in Pflanzenr. Heft 25 (1906) 75; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. 
Fl. (1906) 738. 
SouTH Istanp: Nelson—Mountains above the Wairau Gorge, 7. F. C.  Marl- 
borough — Mount Mouatt, 7. Kirk! Canterbury— Broken River basin and Upper 
Waimakariri, 7’. Kirk/ 7. F. C., Cockayne! Mount Peel, H. H. Allan! Mount 
Arrowsmith district, Cockayne and Rk. M. Laing; Mount Cook district, T. F. C. 
Otago—Mount Pisa, Mount Kyeburn, Old Man Range, Mount Ida, Petrie / Mount 
Earnslaw, Cockayne / 2000-5500 ft. December—February. 
Probably an abundant mountain-plant, but it is often confounded with varieties 
of L. campestris with congested inflorescence. From all these it can be readily dis- 
tinguished by the tapering leaves ending in an acute subulate point quite unlike the 
obtuse and often swollen leaf-tip of L. campestris ; also by the spiciform clusters, and 
by the broad bracts with white membranous margins densely ciliate with long hairs. 
I cannot agree with Dr. Buchenau in treating it as a variety of the South American 
L. racemosa. That species is a much larger plant, sometimes reaching a height of 2 ft. 
6in., whereas L. T'raversi: very rarely exceeds 14in., and is usually much less. The 
breadth of the leaves is also greatly different. In L. racemosa they hardly ever 
exceed $in., whereas in L. T'raversit they frequently reach 4in. The inflorescence 
is also larger and more compound in L. racemosa. 
(Beth .) 
8. L. wophylla, Cockayne and Laing in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii (1911) 
366.—Densely tufted, forming small patches. Stems small, slender, strict, 
4-8in. high, rarely more. Leaves mostly at the base of the stem, than 
which they are much shorter, 14-2} in. long, seldom more than }in. 
broad, straight or curved, convolute, margins and back covered with a 
scurly coating of entangled white woolly hairs ; cauline leaves, when present, 
seldom more than one, minute, base sheathing the stem and appressed to 
it. Inflorescence terminal, of a single ovoid-oblong or almost spherical 
head }-lin. long. Bracts pale. Capsule dark-chestnut.—L. racemosa 
var. ulophylla Buchen. in Oesterr. Bot. Zeit. (1898) 245, and in Pflanzenr. 
Heft 25 (1906) 75; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 738, 
SoutTH Istanp: Nelson—Clarence Valley, near Fowler’s Pass, 7. F. C. Canter- 
bury—Castle Hill, 7. F. C., Cockayne! Mount Arrowsmith district, Cockayne and 
R,. M. Laing. Otago—Lake Wanaka, Petrie / 2000-5000 ft. December—February. 
A very curious little plant, probably not uncommon in the higher mountain-valleys 
of the southern half of the South Island. In the first edition of this work I stated my 
opinion that it was worthy of being ranked as a distinct species, and further study 
has fully confirmed this view. I was therefore glad to note that Cockayne and Laing, 
in their report on the Botany of the Mount Arrowsmith District (Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
xliii (1911) 266) has published it as such: 
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