210 Specimen of the Botany of New Zealand, 



mentioned species, I think their mutual affinities and their diagno- 

 stic characters will be fully determined as follows : 



1. Epilobium canescens, nob. Foliis lanceolatis, acuminatis, integer- 

 rimis; ramisque sericeo canescentibus; siliqua pedunculi longitu- 

 dine. 



2. Epilobium angustissimum , Curtis. Foliis lanceolato-linearibus, ob- 

 tusis, glanduloso-serratis ; ramisque glaberrimis, siliqua pedunculo 

 duplo longiori. 



3. Epilobium rosmarinifolium, Haenke. Foliis lanceolatis, acuminatis, 

 subintegerrimis, ramisque puberulis; siliqua pedunculo quadruple 

 longiori. 



I will now beg leave to remark with respect to the Epilobium an- 

 gustissimum of Curt., that that species furnishes a variety with leaves 

 still more narrow and stem feeble, which has been designated by the 

 name of Epilobium Dodonm by Allioni, of Epilobium Lobelii by Vil- 

 lars, of E. Halleri by Retz ; and in later periods by E. angustissimum, 

 j3 alpinum by Sering. 



And with respect to the E. rosmarinifolium, Haenke, I beg leave 

 to remark that it is a species totally distinct from his homonym, the 

 E. rosmarinifolium, Pursch. This last is in fact a North American 

 plant, discovered in 1810 in the environs of Philadelphia, and since 

 by Bigelow, who calls it E. line are ; some few years still later in 

 a hundred places south-west of that city, in the territory of Bos- 

 ton. Nuttall has found it, and has given it the name of E. squam- 

 matum. 



XXII. — Florae Insularum Novce Zelandice Precursor ; or a Spe- 

 cimen of the Botany of the Islands of New Zealand. By 

 Allan Cunningham, Esq. 



[Continued from p. 378 of vol. ii. of Sir W. J. Hooker's Companion to the 

 Botanical Magazine.] 



EXOGENJE seu DICOTYLEDONES. 



PIPERACE^, Rich. 

 1. Piper, L. 

 323. P. excelsum. Forst. Prodr. n. 20. Rcem. 8f Sch. Syst. Veg. i. p. 313. 

 A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 356. — Kana-Kana of the natives. 



New Zealand (Middle Island). — 1773, Forster. (Northern Island,) a 

 strong rambling shrub, frequent on the margins of forests. — 1834, R. Cun- 

 ningham. 



