Specimens Examined

Herb. Bot. Division: 1066 Lammermoor Mountains, H. H. Allan; 9742 Perpendicular Point, V. D. Zotov; 9997 and 17407 Dart River, V. D. Z.; 17611 Kelly's Hill, Geo. Simpson; 21048 Lochinvar, Lake Tekapo, tarns, A. J. D. Barker No. 368.1; 22013 and 22015 Mossburn, H. H. Allan; 22389 Tauranga Bay, A. L. Poole; 56285 Molesworth, Awatere Valley, H. H. Allan; 60509 Lake Haupiri, headwaters of Ahaura River, W. Mackay; 67576 and 67587 Leslie Clearing, Caswell Sound, 2,000 feet, A. L. Poole; 68656 Ngamatea Swamp, Inland Patea, B. G. Hamlin; 71445 Cass, Canterbury, R. Mason No. 676; 71674 Lake Grassmere, R. M. No. 703; 74215 Mokai Patea, Ruahine Range, c. 5,000 feet, A. P. Druce; 74229 Ngamatea, Inland Patea, A. P. D.; 75346 and 75353 Motutapu, Lake Wanaka, V. D. Zotov; 79419 Aniwaniwa Valley, 2,200 feet, Waikaremoana, A. P. Druce; 80124 Mokai Patea, Ruahine Range, 4,700 feet, A. P. Druce; 81263 seaward of Carter's Beach Road, Buller County, swampy paddock, R. Mason & N. T. Moar No. 1678; 81274 ditto R. M. and N. T. M. No. 1689; 81520 Fairdown, Buller Cy. R. M. and N. T. M. No. 2063.

Herb. Dominion Museum: Western Amuri County, D. Petrie, W. G. Morrison; near Charleston, D. P.; Lake Brunner, L. Cockayne No. 1578; Westland, P. G. Morgar; Mt. Rockfort, Westport, W. Townson; Castle Hill, Canterbury, 731m., L. Cockayne No. 1594; Maniototo District, B. C. Aston, D. Petrie.

Herb. Auckland Museum: 2605 Red Hills, Wairau Valley, Marlborough, 3,500 feet, T. F. Cheeseman; 2608(7) Hanmer Plains, T. F. C. (a mixed sheet of which the central specimen is included here, the rest being C. sinclairii); 2565 Lake Waihi, Waikato, T. Kirk; 2566 Mt. Arthur Plateau, 4,000 feet, T. F. C.; 2567 Mountains near Westport, W. Townson No. 470; 2569 Hanmer Plains, T. F. C.; 2571 Lake Wakatipu, 1,100 feet, D. Petrie No. 39; 2572 Otago, J. Buchanan; 2574 shores of Lake Tekapo, 2,500 feet, T. F. C.; 35861 Kerikeri Inlet, R. Cooper, R. Mason and N. T. Moar.

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Herb. Canterbury Museum: Museum index 91.14.18.1 Castle Hill, A. Wall; Mt. Cardrona, 6,000 feet, A. Wall; in Herb. H. Carse 421/1 Waikaremoana, E. A. Hodgson (a mixed sheet including C. sinclairii); 421/2 Hanmer Plains, 1,200 feet, T. F. Cheeseman; 421/5 Waimakariri tableland, 600m., L. Cockayne, No. 1594.

Also in Australia. The Asian plants, previously referred to this species by Kukenthal et al. are now separated as C. thunbergii Steudel.

I have seen no specimens in which the utricles are granular-papillose as described by Cheeseman, nor is this character present in Australian material recently received from Mr. R. H. Anderson of the National Herbarium of New South Wales. The clavate character of the male spikelet is also lacking in most of the New Zealand specimens which I have examined although present in the above Australian plants.

C. gaudichaudiana var. humilior Kukenthal in Engler's Pflanzenr. Heft 38 (1909) 313 is based on five specimens, one from Mt. Kosciusko, New South Wales, one from Tasmania and the rest from New Zealand. One of the latter, Cockayne No. 1594, I have examined and can find nothing, other than size, to separate it from the type variety as it is known in New Zealand. This is also the opinion of S. T. Blake (Journ. Arn. Arb. XXVIII (1947) 107) with respect to the Australian and New Guinea plants.