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removed the fence from an abandoned garden, exposing a few plants of 

 the Eschscholtzia. A bull running in the paddock ate a few leaves and was 

 seriously affected, but ultimately recovered. The plants were then grubbed 

 up and destroyed, and no further symptoms were noticed among the 

 cattle. Unfortunately, it was not observed that a large numbei of 

 seedlings had appeared in the neighbourhood of the old plants, so that 

 when a number of lambs were placed in the paddock they were at once 

 affected, half a dozen dying within an hour. At first they appeared to 

 be silly, then lost the use of their limbs, and died frothing at the mouth. 



Psoralea pinnata Linn. 



Mr. R. Waters sends me specimens of this from the neighbourhood of 

 Dargaville, where it is said to be spreading fast. I have also observed it 

 by roadsides at Birkdale, near Auckland. The only previous record is 

 Waipvi (see Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 46, p. 8). 



Chrysanthemum coronarium Linn. 



This well-known garden-plant has appeared as an escape from cultiva- 

 tion in several localities near Auckland. It has also established itself on 

 the railway reclamations along the side of Auckland Harbour. It is a 

 common plant in the Mediterranean region, extending southwards to the 

 Azores, and has often appeared as a naturalized plant in Britain.^ 



Senecio spathulatus A. Rich. 



This species, which is allied to the New Zealand S. lautus Forst., has 

 appeared in great quantities on the Harbour Board and railway reclama- 

 tions fringing Auckland Harbour, and is fast making its way into waste 

 places within the City of Auckland itself. It has probably been accident- 

 ally introduced from Australia, where it is known from several localities, 

 and particularly from "sandy shores in Port Jackson" (Sydney Harbour). 

 I am indebted to Dr. Maiden, of the Sydney Botanical Gardens, for asking 

 his assistant, Mr. Cheel, to make a special report on my specimens of the 

 plant, with which I have been somewhat puzzled. He informs me that, 

 although it comes under the circumscription of *S. spathulatus as defined 

 by Mr. Bentham in the Flora Australiensis, all the New South Wales 

 specimens, as well as all my own, have pubescent achenes and 2-nerved 

 involucral bracts, thus agreeing with the description of S. anacampserotis 

 DC, and differing from the type description of S. spathulatus, which is 

 said to have the fruit "linearis striatus' gkiber." Mr. Cheel considers 

 it to be an open question whether S. anacampserotis should not be 

 re-established as a species. 



J uncus acutiflorus Ehr. 



Moist gullies at Pukeatua, "West Taupo County ; D. Petrie ! I am 

 indebted to Mr. Petrie for specimens of this species, which has not been 

 previously noticed as introduced into New Zealand. I understand that 

 the specimens were identified by Dr. Stapf, of the Kew Herbarium, 



Festuca fallax Thuill. and F. dura Host. 



I have also to thank Mr. Petrie for specimens of these two plants, which 

 have been identified by Dr. Stapf under the names given above — in the 

 case of the second one with some little doubt. In a broad sense they 

 would doubtless be treated as forms of the widespread F. rubra Linn. 



