516 Transactions. — Botany. 



Mr. N. E. Brown, of Kew, was the first to point out that 

 most of the plants referred in the Handbook and the " Trans- 

 actions of the New Zealand Institute" to Logania and Mi- 

 trasacvie weve true Veronicas. To the botanist acquainted 

 w^ith the subalpine and alpine vegetation of New Zealand it 

 seems the most natural mistake in the world that flowerless 

 specimens of Veronica tetragova should be referred to Podo- 

 carjms or Dacrydium when examined without reference to 

 their minute structure, while the general aspect of one or two 

 others, coupled with tetrandrous or pentaphyllous flowers, 

 equally accounts for their reference to Logania on the exami- 

 nation of specimens destitute of fruits, or at best with fruits 

 in an immature condition. The reference of others to Mitra- 

 sacme is unquestionably due to an oversight arising from the 

 severe physical pain under which the describer laboured 

 during the progress of his work. 



Veronica canescens, T. Kirk, in Trans. N.Z. Inst., ix. (1876), 

 503, t. xix., f. 2. 



Limb of corolla spreading at maturity ; lobes broad, 

 rounded at the tips, the uppermost longer than the others. 

 Capsule wholly included within the calyx, broadly ovoid, 

 slightly compressed, retuse. 



South Island : Canterbury— Lake Forsyth, T. E. ; Lake 

 Lyndon, /. D. Enys and T. Kirk. Otago — Oamaru, J. 

 Buchanan; Maniototo Plains, D. Petrie, T. Kirk; Wyclilfe 

 Bay, Dunedin, B. C. Ashton ! Sea-level to 2,800ft., but re- 

 markably local. 



According to the Index Kewensis, the trivial name has 

 been erroneously applied to three other species: V. "can- 

 escens," Bast., Fl. Maine et Loire, Supp. 21, is V. teucrium, 

 L., Sp. PI., ed. ii., 216; V. "canescens," Presl., ex Schult. 

 Mant., i.. Add. II., 229 =7. yrostrata, L., Sp. PL, ed. ii., 22; 

 V. "canescens," Schrad., Comm. Veron. Spic, 19 = V. incana, 

 L., Sp. PL, 10 : all natives of Europe. 



V. anagallis, L., Sp. PL, 12. 



This has not been observed since it was collected by the 

 Eev. W. Colenso in Hawke's Bay. As it is a plant that pro- 

 duces seeds in great abundance in Europe, it is not easy to 

 account for its disappearance, even if it be assumed that 

 Mr. Colenso's specimens were of exotic origin. 



V. hookeriana, Walp., Eep., iii., 341. 



This species extends over a wider area than is generally 

 supposed, as it is found in the Kuahine Eange (Colenso), 

 Tongariro, Ngauruhoe, and is especially abundant on Euapehu. 

 I believe that it occurs on the Kaimanawa Eange also, but 



