L. Cockayne. — Notes on New Zealand Floristic Botany. 191 



44. Urtica linearifolia (Hook, f.) Cockayne. 



North Island: Ruahine-Cook Botanical District-- Makurerua Swamp, 



where drained, climbing over shrubs. L. C. 



45. Veronica amplexicaulis J. B. Armstg. 



South Island : Eastern Botanical District — Mount Peel, subalpine. 

 H. H. Allan ! 



Previously I have only known this species from the cultivated plants 

 in the Christchurch Botanical Gardens, which were probably cuttings from 

 the original plant. Also, in the Manual Armstrong's original habitat, 

 " Upper Rangitata," is the only one given. Mr. Allan's specimens have 

 not yet bloomed in my garden, but they seem to match exactly the not- 

 readily-mistaken vegetative form of V. amplexicaulis, of which I have also 

 a cultivated example. 



46. Veronica Haastii Hook. f. var. macrocalyx (J. B. Armstg.) Cheosem. 

 South Island : Western Botanical District — Browning's Pass neighbour" 



hood. J. E. Holloway ! 



I am inclined to think it would be better to treat this variety as a 

 species. If not, then V. epacridea should also be united to V . Haastii. 

 The plant in question has so far been recorded only from Mount Rolleston, 

 the vicinity of the Waimakariri glaciers, the Rangitata Valley, and the 

 above locality. 



Art. XVIII. — A Note on the Young Stages of Astraea heliotropium 



(Martyn). 



By Miss M. K. Mestayer. 



Communicated by R. L. Mestayer, M.Inst.C.E. 



[Read beforr the Wellington Philosophical Society, 12ih December, 1917 ; received by 

 Editors, 31st December, 1917 ; issued separately, 30th May, 1918.] 



In his "A Commentary on Suter's Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca"* 

 Iredale makes the following statement on page 444 : " My disposition of 

 the species ranked by Suter in the families Liotiidae, Vitrinellidae, and 

 Cyclostrematidae are as follows: "Transfer Liotia serrata Suter, 1908, and 

 Liotia solitaria Suter, 1908, to the genus Angaria Bolten, 1798, in the family 

 Trochidae," &c. ; and on page 439 of the same volume, speaking of the 

 genus Angaria Bolten, he says, " This genus has not yet been recorded 

 from New Zealand, though I have recorded two species at the Kermadec 

 Islands. . . . The two species, Liotia serrata Suter, 1908, and Liotia 

 solitaria Suter, 1908,- are probably both juveniles of this genus: the latter 

 certainly is, whilst the species Suter compared it with — viz., L. stellaris 

 Ad. & Rve. — is also a juvenile Angaria, as is shown here in the British 

 Museum, the type being so placed when it was described." 



I have a number of specimens dredged by Captain Bollons from various 

 localities which show very clearly that Iredale was mistaken in transferring 



* Trans. X.Z. Inst., vol. 47, p. 417-508, 1915. 



