Contents. ix 



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XLIII. List of New Zealand Hydroida. By H. Farquliar . . i59-468 

 XLIV. On the Habits of New Zealand Ants. By W. W. 



Smith, F.E.S. .. .. .. .. 468-479 



XLV. On the Construction of the Comb of the Hive-bee. 



By Coleman Phillips .. .. .. 479-490 



III.— Botany. 

 XLVI. Notes on jMS. Descriptions of Collections made 

 during Captain Cook's First Voyage. By T. 

 Kirk, F.L.S. . . . . . . . . 491-498 



XLVII. Notes on Dactylanthus taylori, Hook. f. By T. 



Kirk, F.L.S. . . . . . . . . 493-497 



XLVIII. On Zannicliellin and Lcpila-na in New Zealand. 



By T. Kirk . . . . . . . . . . 498-500 



XLIX. On the Products of a Ballast-heap. By T. Kirk . . 501-507 

 L. Notice of the Occurrence of an Undescribed Palm- 

 lily on the Auckland Peninsula. By T. Kirk . . .508-509 

 LI. A Revision of the New Zealand Species of Hymeimii- 



thcra,'R.Bx. By T. Kirk .. .. .. 510-515 



LII. Notes on Certain Veronicas, and Descriptions of 



New Species. By T. Kirk .. .. .. 515-531 



LIII. New Zealand Musci : Notes on a New Genus. By 



Robert Brown . . . . . . . . 531-533 



LIV. On some Additions to the New Zealand Flora. By 

 T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Curator of the 

 Auckland Museum . . . . . . . . 534-537 



LV. Botanical Notes, Nelson District. By R. I. Kingsley 537-588 

 LVI. Descriptions of Three New Native Plants. By D. 



Petrie, M.A., F.L.S. . . . . . . . . 538-539 



LVII. List of the Flowering Plants indigenous to Otago, 

 with Indications of their Distribution and Range 

 in Altitude. By D. Petrie .. .. .. 540-591 



LVIII. Phsenogams : A Description of a few more Newly- 

 discovered Indigenous Plants; being a Further 

 Contribution towards the making known the 

 Botany of Nevv Zealand. By W. Colenso, 

 F.R.S., F.L.S. (Lond.), &c. .. .. ..591-613 



LIX. New Zealand Cryptogams : A List pi a few Addi- 

 tional Cryptogamic Plants, of the Orders HepaticcB 

 and Fjingi, more recently detected in New Zea- 

 land. By W. Colenso . . . . . . 614-615 



LX. Cryptogams : A Description of Two New Ferns, a 

 New Lycopodiwn, and a New Moss, lately de- 

 tected in our New Zealand Forests. By \V. 

 Colenso . . . . . . . . . . 615-618 



LXI. A Description of Three Ferns believed to be un- 

 described, discovered more than Fifty Years ago 

 in the Northern District of New Zealand. By 

 W. Colenso . . . . . . . . . . 618-622 



LXII. Note on a Branched Specimen of a Tree-fern {Hemi- 



telia smithii). By A. Hamilton .. .. 622-623 



Ij'KUl. On Cordiceps rohertsii. By H. C. Field .. .. 623-624 



IV. — Geology. 

 LXIV. Notes on some Rocks from the Kermadec Islands. 



By R. Speight, M. A. .. .. .. .. 625-627 



LXV. On a Deposit of Moa-bones at Kapua. By Captain 

 P. W. Hutton, F.R.S., Curator of the Canterbury 

 Museum .... . . . . . . . . 627-644 



