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6. Juncus hufonms, L. ; culmis fastigiatis simplicibus basi foliosis, fobis Imeari-setaceis sulcatis,
cyma terminab laxe dichotome ramosa, ramis elongatis genicGatis bracteatis, floribus majuscubs subsessi-
libns solitariis 2-3-nisve, capsula periantbio breviore.—Linn. Sp. PI. Engl. Bot. t. 802. J. plebeius,
Br. Prodr. etc.
H a b . Abundant tbrougbout the Islands, Sinclair, Colenso, etc. (A native of England.)
A very common plant in many parts of the world, and found in Australia and Tasmania.—Whole plant very pale-
coloured. Culms a span high, tufted ; leaves setaceous, grooved, short. Panicks or Cymes very large, sparingly
branched ; branches long, with large, very distant, scattered flowers, which are solitaiy or few together. Capsuk
much shorter than the perianth.
7. Juncus Novæ-Zelandiæ, Hook, fib; cGmis cæspitosis filiformibus, folbs angustissime linearibus
subsetaceis acutis striatis fistulosis uunc articulatis, floribus 3-5 infra apicem cGmi sessilibus rarius
terminahbus, capsGis 3-locGaribus obovatis apicGatis castaneis nitidis periantbium obtusum superautibus.
H a b . Northern Island. Bogs on the East Coast and interior, Colenso.
A small, slender, tufted species, 3-6 inches high. Leaves almost setaceous, hollow, striated, often conspicuously
jointed. Flowers three to five, towards the top of the culm : sometimes there are two series of them, at others a
short branch is given off close to the three sessile flowers, and bearing three others. Ferianth of red-brown segments,
blunt, with white membranous margins. Capsule polished red-brown, obovate, mucronate, three-celled.
8. Juncus capillaceus, Hook. fil. ; pusillus, subcoespitosus, culmis setaceo-filiformibus foliis setaceis
articulatis brevioribus, floribus lateralibus solitariis v. 2-3 sessilibus v. breve pedicellatis 2-bracteatis,
bractea superiore (culmi apice) basi vaginato, inferiore aristato flore breviore, perianthii foliolis oblongis
obtusis, staminibus 6, stylo subelongato.
H a b . Northern Island. East Coast, Colenso,
A very small slender species, 2-4 inches high, with capillary culms, shorter than the setaceous articulate
leaves. Flowers small, solitary, or two or three on the side of the culm, which is produced beyond them into a
subulate bract, membranous at tbe base -, opposite to this is a similar shorter bract. Perianth of six, equal, linear
oblong, blunt pieces. Stamens six. Style rather long, with three long stigmas.—Allied to J. Scheuchzerioides of the
Falkland Islands, and /. antarcticus of Campbell Island.
Obs. j . antarcticus (FL Antarct, p. 79. t. 46), a native of Campbell Island, may occur ou the New Zealand
mountains ; it much resembles very small states of Luzula campestris in habit and foliage, but has short scapes and
capitate terminal heads of three to six hexandrous flowers. Segments of the perianth subulate.
Gen. II . LUZULA, BC.
Perianthium 6-partitum, glumaceum, 2-bracteatum. Stamina 6. Ovarmm basi 3-ovulatum. Stigmata
3, Capsula 1-locularis, 3-valvis, 3-sperma.
A genus scattered over various parts of the world, most abundant in temperate and arctic climates ; one
New Zealand species is common to both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Readily distinguished from
Juncus by the grassy, almost invariably pilose leaves, aud one-celled three-seeded capsule. (Name of doubtful
origin.)
1. Luzula campestris, DC.; pilosa v. glabrata, spicis capitatis subumbellatis paniculatisve inæqualiter
pedunculatis nunc in capitulum congestis, bracteis integris, perianthii laciniis ovatis acuminatis brunneis
albo-marginatis, capsulis obtusis.—DC. Flor. Franc. Br. Prodr. Juncus, Unn. Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic.
Engl. Bot. t. 672.-—Variat insigniter statura, inflorescentia spicata paniculata v. dense congesta, colore
pallida V . castanea, et foliis brevibus subulatis elongatisve et gramineis.
H ab. Abundant throughout the Islands, Banks and Solander, ete. (A native of England.)
A very familiar plant to the English Botanist, which is likely to puzzle the New Zealand student from its
singularly protean h ab it.-® » » 1-16 iuehes high. Leaves short and almost snbGate. or long and grassy generaUy
with long scattered hairs. Inflorescence a dense, sessile, rounded or lobed head or spike, sohtary or with one m
more pedunculate spikes rising from its base, or broken up into mauy little peduuculate spikelets. Fkwers ve^
pale, or deep chestnut-brown. Ferianth with a broad central brown area, and comparatively narrow white bor er.
AU the New Zealand varieties are fonnd in Europe, and most of them in Australia, Tasmania, aud other parts of
the world. One of these, gathered by Mr. Colenso on the Euahine and other mountains, is tufted and not an inch
hiGi nearly glabrous, has subGate leaves, and a small dense spike sunk amongst the leaves; this latter closely
reéembles Alpine specimens of the Auckland Islands L. crinita; I have examined a similar state of i . campestre
from the Norwegian Alps.
2. Euziila*icte, A, Eicb.; graoflis, laxe pilosa, spicGis paucifloris gracile peduncGatis v. rarius
congestis, bracteis iutegris, periautliiis acuminatis subaristatis albidis fascia castanea angusta. L. piota
A. Bneh. Fl. L. Banksiana, E. Meyer in Linnæa, v. 2 2 .* . 412. Juncus campestris var., Banks et Sot.
MSS. et Ic.
H a b . Northern and Middle Islands, frequent. Banks and Solander, I f Urmlle, etc.
A very variable plant, possibly a variety of L. campestri^, but much smaUer, more slender, and narrower-leaved,
with sparingly branebed, rather cymose Gflorescence.— few-flowered, on ffliform spreading peduncles, rarely
clustered into one spike. Perianth pale, gUstening. of very sharp, Gmost aristate segments, with a narrow chestnut-
brown stripe down the middle.
Oa%.—Luzula crinita (El. Antarct. p. 85. t. 48), which is abundant in Lord Auckland’s and CampbeU’s
Island, has not yet been gathered in New Zealand ; it is much too nearly aUied to L. campestrw, but it is a more
robust, veiy vUlous plant, with thicker, more coriaceous, and keeled perianth, and fimbriate bracts.
Obs.—The genus Rostkovia, of which two species inhabit Lord Auckland’s and CampbeU’s Islands, has not
been gathered in New Zealand, but probably exists in tbe Middle and South Islands. It may be recogmzed by its
long terete leaves, large solitary flowers, long style, and thi'ee long stigmas,
N a t . O r d . X C I I I . R E S T IA C E Æ , Br.
Gen. I. LEPTOCAEPÜS, Br.
Flores dioici, fasciculati, amentacei. Perianthium 6-glume. S Stamina 3 ; antheræ I-loculares,
peltatæ. ? O ra™« 1-ovulatura; stylus 1; stigmata 3. A to Crustacea, basi styli coronata.
Rush-like dioecious plants, with a stout, scaly, creeping rhizome, and erect, simple or branched, cylmdncal,
jointed, sheathed culms. In the only New Zealand species the male plants have a loosely panicled inflorescence of
pediceUate spikelets ; scaks imbricating, lanceolate or ovate, long or broad, acnminate or awncd, spreaGng ; glumes
acute, three outer larger, inner shorter ; stamens three, with short filaments siirrounGng a thick disc, which is a
deformed ovary. Femak plants with sessile, crowded or remote, simple or fascicled, short spikelets. Scaks broad,
concave, acute, mucronate or awncd ; flowers flattened ; three outer glumes concave, acuminate, erect, spreading at
the tips ; inner shorter, connate at the base, acute or acuminate in the flower, often becoming bhmt, and always
hard, and enclosing the ripe fruit. Ovary trigonous, witli short style and three loug deciduous stigmas, -dchenium
onc-ccUed, indchisccnt, with one pendulous seed. The other species are all Australian and Tasmanian. (Name
from XtTTTOf, slender, and KapTTO<i,fndt.)
I. Lcptocarpus simplex, Br.; cGmis e rhizomate repente simpbcibus gracibbus v. robustis, spiculis
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