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appearance, but are not jointed, and are much more stiffly erect. Thev 

 are obtuse and frequently swollen at the tip, spongy or corky, but are* 

 always furnished witli a hard woody central axis. The young and 

 growing part of the pneumatophore is usually coloured a reddish pink. 

 When old and apparently ceasing to perform its duties as an air-breather 

 the outside layers die, ' and are thrown off in thin whitish flakes. No 

 pneumatophores were noticed bearing leaves ; but many of them give off 

 thin slender shoots which turn downwards at an acute angle and, entering 

 the ground, assume the appearance of true roots. The contrast between 

 the stiffly erect true pneumatophores and the thinner branches all turning 

 sharply downwards is very remarkable. It is much to be desired that 

 some one would work out the anatomical peculiarities of these curious 

 structures. 



Aciphylla Cuthbertiana Petrie. 



I have to thank 31 r. James Speden, of Gore, for an excellent suite of 

 specimens of this distinct species, collected on The Hump, near Lake 

 Hauroko, at an elevation of about 3,000 ft. 



Coxella Dieffenbachii Cheesem. 



Mr. E. R. Chudleigh informs me that until comparatively recent years 

 Coxella. was fairly abundant on the north-east to north-west slopes of Cape 

 Young (Mairangi), on the north side of Chatham Island, and may still linger 

 there. Originally the plant was more or less abundant on the whole of 

 the cliffs of the northern side, but has been destroyed by sheej) in all 

 localities to which they can gain access. 



Angelica rosaefolia Hook. 



Sea-cliffs near Manaia, Taranaki ; Mrs. F. Mason ! Not previously 

 recorded anywhere on the coast-line south of New Plymouth. 



Panax Edgerleyi Hook. f. ■ ' 



I am indebted to Mr. \V . Martin, of Christchurch, for a specimen of 

 this, gathered in forest at Akaroa. It is not mentioned in Mr. Laing's 

 valuable paper on the '' Vegetation of Banks Peninsula," nor in the earlier 

 lists of Raoul and Armstrong. At the same time, considering its distri- 

 bution elsewhere in New Zealand, it is precisely one of those species that 

 might be reasonably expected to occur. 



Gnaphalium Lyallii Hook. f. 



Damp places on sea-cliffs near Manaia, Taranaki ; Mrs. F. Mason! 

 As this handsome plant has been gathered northwards at Opunake by the 

 late Mr. T. Kirk, and to the south at Waingongor© by Dr. Cockayne, we 

 may assume that it is probably abundant on the Taranaki sea-coast to 

 the south of Cape Egmont. 



Cotula coronopifolia Linn, 



Var. integrifoUa T. Kirk is certainly nothing more than a starved 

 diminutive form. On the railway reclamations on the foreshore of Auck- 

 land Harbour it has appeared in immense abundance during the last two 

 or three years, chiefly in places where water has stagnated in winter or 



