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810 1. C. pyrenaica, ''Wahl. in Vet. Akad. Nya Handl. Stockh.'' (1803) 139.—Culms slender, densely tufted, leafy at the base, 2–9 in. high, rarely more. Leaves numerous, longer or shorter than the culms, flat, grassy, $1⁄25$–$1⁄15$ in. broad, grooved beneath; margins scabrid. Spikelet solitary, terminal, dark chestnut-brown, ⅓–¾ in. long, oblong or elliptic-oblong, densely many-flowered; male flowers at the top; bract wanting or very short. Glumes membranous, deciduous; of the female flowers ovate or ovate-oblong, acute or obtuse, shorter than the utricle; of the males narrower, linear-oblong, subacute. Utricle stipitate, lanceolate or almost fusiform, gradually narrowed into an obliquely bifid beak, unequally biconvex or almost plano-convex, smooth, spreading or reflexed when ripe. Styles usually 2 in New Zealand examples, usually 3 in European or American. Nut oblong, lenticular.—''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 280; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 312; Boott, Ill. Car.'' iv. 148, t. 475, 476; ''Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xvi. (1884) 424.

2. C. acicularis, ''Boott in Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 280, t. 63.—Culms slender, strict, wiry, terete, densely tufted, leafy at the base, 1–6 in. high. Leaves shorter than the culms or equalling them, narrow, strict, rigid, straight or curved, almost terete, grooved down the front, obtuse and slightly scabrid at the tip. Spikelet small, solitary, terminal, ⅙–⅓ in. long, broadly ovoid, red-brown, few-flowered; females 2–8; males 2–4 at the top of the spikelet. Glumes lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or the lower ones awned, keel green or pale-brown. Utricle shortly stipitate, lanceolate, narrowed above into a rather long beak, obtusely triquetrous; beak serrate, obliquely bifid at the tip. Styles 3, seldom 2. Nut pale, trigonous.—''Boott Ill. Car.'' iv. 157, t. 508, f. 2; ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 312; Benth. Fl. Austral.'' vii. 437; ''Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xvi. (1884) 424. C. Archeri, ''Boott in Hook. f. Fl. Tasm.'' ii. 98, t. 150; ''Ill. ''Car. iv. 156, t. 508, f. 3. C. inconspicua, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 612.