34 Mr. Thompson on an apparently undescribed 



et ultra longa. Flores rubelli, pedunculati, pedunculo brevi toraentoso. Cap- 

 sula 2-poliicaris, obsolete quadrigona, pra3sertim ad suturas pubescens. 



549. E. confertum, strictum, adpresso curtoque canum, foliis (uncialibiis) 

 oblongo-lanceolatis argute serratis ad axillas confertis, flovibus axillaribus 

 solitariis, pedunculis fructiferis capsula duplo brevioribus. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Among grass on river banks, Wanga- 

 roa. — 1826, J. Cunningham. 



Caulis erectus, pedalis. Rami rubelli, pilis albis adpressis brevissimis 

 conspersi. Folia lanceolata, angusta, remote serrata vel subsinuata, fasci- 

 culata. Flores secus apices ramorum axillares. Capsula linearis bipolli- 

 caris, obtuse tetragona. 



550. E. pallidiflorum, (Sol. Ms.) erectum, glabriusculura, foliis oppo- 

 sitis breviter petiolatis longo-lanceolatis acuminatis serrulatis venosis, flori- 

 bus ad summitatem ramulorum axillaribus, ramulisque albo-patentibus, cap- 

 sula pedunculo fructifero ter longiore. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Swampy grounds, Opuraga (Mercury 

 Bay, lat. 36^°. S.) — 1769, Sir Jos. Banks. In low wet situations, Wangaroa. 

 — 1826, A. Cunningham. 



Caulis erectus, tripedalis et ultra ; ramis teretibus strictis virgatis fuscis 

 tenuissime pubentibus. Flores albi, majores quam in alteris speciebus, laci- 

 niis calycinis ovatis acutis corolla brevioribus. 



551. E.junceum (Sol. Ms.) caule tereti fistuloso, superne incano-pube- 

 scente, foliis sessilibus lanceolatis acutis denticulatis glabriusculis, calycibus 

 acuminatis coroUam superantibus. Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. p. 233. Forst. 

 Prodr.n. 516. — E. denticulatum, Ruiz etPavon. Fl. Peruv. m. p. 78. t. 314. 

 sec. Spreng. 



552. E. haloragifolium, caule erecto, foliis (semiuncialibus) superioribus 

 alternis subsessilibus patentibus ovato-lanceolatis obtusis remote dentatis 

 glabris, floribus ad summa ramulorum solitariis, pedunculis fructiferis cap- 

 sula pubigera triplo quadruplove brevioribus, ramulis pubescentibus. 



New Zealand (Northern Island). Shady places among fern on the Wai- 

 caddy river, Bay of Islands. — 1833, B. Cunningham. 



Obs. Valde affine E. atriplicifolio, sed differt foliis ovato-lanceolatis, et 

 capsula matura pubente. 



[To be continued.] 



VI. — On an apparently undescribed Species o/ Lepadogaster ; 

 and on the Gobius minutus of Muller, and Cyclopterus 

 minutus of Pallas ? considered as the young of Cycl. lumpus, 

 Linn, By Wm. Thompson, Esq.;, Vice-President of the 

 Natural History Society of Belfast*. 



Lepadogaster cephalus, mihi, Connemara Sucker. 



In the collection of Robert Ball, Esq., of Dublin, there is an 



* Read before this Society December 5, 1838, and illustrated by the speci- 

 mens alluded to. 



