CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 41i 
had teeth in various stages of development, proceeding from 
their midribs on the upper surface; and only the lower ones 
were united by bars, and these only in their lower parts. 
This I have endeavoured to make more clear in the aecom- 
panying figure. What I have above called “leaf” or the 
lanceolate lamina, becomes eventually the rachis of the com- 
pound leaf, and finally the stem; the /eaflets become the 
main nerves of the net-work, or, in fertile plants, the stalks of 
the capsules, — W. H. H. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
1. Portion of frond, nat. size, showing the capsules. 2, 3. Different 
Magnified views of capsule or keramidium. 4. Globule of seeds. 5. Cluster 
of seeds taken from the globule. 6. Young leaf, nat. size. 7. Same mag- 
"ifed. 8. Apex of magnified, unrolled. 
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Catalogue of the names of a Collection of Plants made by Mn. 
Wm. SrgPngNsox in New ZEALAND; by J. D. HOOKER, 
M.D. R.N. F.L.S. 
Some thirty years have now elapsed since the first publica- 
tion of a few dried specimens of plants, by Mr. Don of 
Forfar, was considered a great boon to the Naturalist : but 
now the study of Botany is so extensively pursued, oth at 
home and abroad, that travellers visit distant regions for the 
Sole purpose of collecting and transmitting to their native 
Country dried plants on sale at moderate prices: whilst 
others, called, abroad by various duties, still render an essen- 
tial service to Botany at home, by paying some attention to 
the collecting of materials for the use of scientific men in 
England and on the continent. Mr. Stephenson will rank 
amongst the latter number. Every one knows how much 
additional value is stamped upon such collections by having 
them named; and being engaged in the preparation of a 
Flora of New Zealand, it has not proved a very difficult task 
to draw up such a list of Mr. Stephenson’s first envoi as may 
useful to many who possess this Herbarium. The Grasses 
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