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Island. 



tion of the tropical, widely diffused Pacific species, there arc no 



amic plants or ferns confined to Norfolk Island and Eaoul 

 It is further remarkable that of the Eaoiil Isbnd ferns, 

 Cyatliea medullaris and Fteris falcata have not been found in 

 Norfolk Island. 



There is no doubt that a complete flora of Eaoul Island 

 ^ould modify these results ; but there can also be no doubt that 

 it would confirm these indications of its affinities being most 

 strong with that of New Zealand, and feeble to a very unaccoimt- 

 able degree with the floras of those other groups with which it 

 might be exx^ected to possess a very strong relationship. 



Of the twenty flowering plants, three are noticed by the col- 



^'^pTialiuyjiluteo-alhum. and OMsmenmcemulus.viSL 



igulatus. 



found to affect cultivated groimd. These are, however, so widely 



diatrib 



uite as probable as not that they are truly 

 group, and only grow in more abundance 



our 



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prepared soil. A _, , -xx- 



tbeu? transport, as the glochidiate setro of the fruit of the Sicyos 



the awn of the glume of OpUsmenus^ and the pappus of Ona 

 With regard to the remaining seventeen flowering plants, 



^cognize special adaptations for transport in the following two 

 ^^Y'—Bidens leucantha'^, in the barbed setae of the fruit, and 

 LagenopJiora petiolata, in the Wscid fruit. Of the rest none seem 

 '"" iny way adapted for transport, unless the minute and numerous 

 ds of the Lobelia. Acianthus. and Metrosideros be so regarded. 



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DlCOTTLEDO^'ES. 



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2. Metrosideros po]ymoii)ha,GaK<?. 



3. Sicyos angulatus, L. 



*• Coprosma pctioluta, w, sp. 

 «• Coprosma acuiifolia, n, sp. 

 ^- Panax arborcum, Forst. 

 I' ^^nopbora pctiolata, 11./. 

 I' ^idens leucantha, WtUd. 

 y-.GnaphaUum lut^o-album, L. 



gracilis. 



11. Lobelia anecps, Thunh, 



12. Ycronica pamflora, Va. 



13. Myoponun lajtum, JVi 

 Ik Oinalanthus nutans, Gn 



15. Piper latifolium, Forst. 



16. Pepcromia TJrnlleana, j'. 



17. Ascarina lanceolata, n, s 



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int r * ^bough not included in the New Zealand flora, has been latterly 

 ^uced into the neighbourhood of Auckland, &c. 



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