16 JOURNAL OF A NATURALIST 
doing so I was fortunate enough to obtain Euphrasia cuneata 
in flower, which was abundant here on the clayey cliffs, and 
three species of Composite, two of them quite new to 
me. I had previously noticed the leaves of one, a curious 
little plant, in the slatey defile, near Waiapu, where I obtained 
the small Plantago (11), and other plants; the leaves and 
stalk of this plant (39) were covered with a viscid sub- 
stance which exuded from its glandular pores. Another (25) 
grew commonly about the bases and faces of the low clayey 
and sandy cliffs, and often attained the height of 4 or 5 feet. 
'The third (46), a Composita, was found in similar situations 
and of the same height as the preceding. The peculiar 
glaucous leaves of this last, so much resembling those found 
on the flowering stems of many varieties of Brassica olera- 
cea greatly attracted my notice. Here, also, procumbent 
upon the sand, grew a small plant (44), somewhat re- 
sembling in habit and general appearance Tetragonia ex- 
pansa, but differing in the fruit, the berries being large, 
succulent, pimpled, and dewy, and filled with a carmine- 
coloured juice; thisjuice is used by the nativesin writing as 
a substitute for ink ; but like most other simple vegetable dyes 
is very evanescent; the natives call it Kokihi. Here, too, I 
noticed a Chenopodium (38), which, I think, I must have 
sent you before. A Linum (17) which appeared to differ 
somewhat from L. monogynum, at least in size, I also dis- 
covered in this locality; with a small, straggling, procum- 
bent plant (48), which at first I supposed to be Anchusa 
spathulata, Reem.; but Cunningham, I find, describes that 
species as possessing “folia ovata obtusa," which this one 
has not; to that family, however, it belongs in common 
with its ally the plant numbered 6, already mentioned. Hav- 
ing hastily gleaned this neighbourhood, we once more struck 
inland, The little decumbent plant (2), first seen at Ware- 
kahika was common here on the sand-hills near the shore. 
Leaving the sand-hills and proceeding on through a long 
swamp of Phormium, about five P.M., we reached the river at 
Turanganui in the inner N.W. angle of Poverty Bay, and 
crossing the river in a canoe made the best of our way 
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