IN NEW ZEALAND. 7 
the coast, is struck with the regular aud pleasing appearance 
-of the Pohutukawa, (Metrosideros tomentosa, A. Cunn.), which 
here forms a living and ever-green rampart between the sea- 
beach and the main-land; its roots and trunks, in many 
places, laved by the flowing tide. On these flat rocks of indu- 
rated clay I observed a peculiar kind of Alga (3a), which, 
boiled, is commonly used as an article of food by the natives 
of these parts: they call it Karengo. It grows large and 
quite procumbent; and is often dried up and caused to ad- 
here to the rocks which it inhabits, through the great heat 
of the sun, after the ebbing of the tide. On the sandy 
beach near the East Cape I found a species of Triglochin(4), 
(T. flaccidum?) much finer than any I had hitherto seen. 
I did not (as in my former visit) go round the Cape, (a bold 
and high promontory, composed of indurated clay, reclining 
back in solemn grandeur, on the face of which, from the 
continual descent of débris from its summit and sides, 
nothing grows,) as it was near high-water; but striking in- 
land I found, on a little sandy plain, a Veronica (5), which 
to me was quite new, and may possibly be a new species. It 
grew low and rambling, not exceeding 2 feet in height. Un- 
fortunately it was not in flower ; but after some little search, 
I obtained some spikes of the capsules of last season. About 
this time it commenced raining heavily, so I was obliged to 
give over botanizing. Our prospect, at this period of our 
journey, was anything but pleasant. Descending the side of 
a hill through a small water-course, I obtained a remarkably 
fine individual of Acianthus rivularis, A. Cunn., and also 
several specimens of a little plant, Myosotis, sp. 7, (6) with 
orbiculate or sub-spathulate leaves, and racemed flowers; I 
subsequently got the ripe seed of this. At night I pitched 
my tent at Te Pito, a small village three miles south of the 
East Cape. The rain continuing to pour down made us glad 
enough to obtain shelter any where; although in our present 
position, on the side of a very steep hill quite open to the 
South Pacific which rolled its immeasurable billows to our 
feet, both shelter and food were anything but obtainable. 
