Petrie. — New Native Phanerogams. 39 



almost acuminate, obscurely 5-nerved, delicately scaberulous, green with 

 scarious margins ; keel scabrid above, its lower half clothed with long 

 silky hairs, the callus and lower edges clad with similar but shorter hairs ; 

 palea f the length of the flowering-glume, bifid at the top, nerves ciliate ; 

 style branches half as long as the palea, stamens still shorter and almost 

 sessile. 



Rah. — -Stewart Island (probably at Herekopere Island, off Half-moon 

 Bay). 



In the last volume of the " Transactions of the New Zealand Institute " 

 I erroneously referred this grass to Poa litorosa Cheeseman. Though it 

 closely resembles that species in habit and foliage, and is very readily 

 mistaken for it on a hand and eye examination, the spikelets have a 

 very diff°rent structure. The above description is founded on specimens 

 grown in my garden from some live pieces kindly sent me by Mr. H. 

 Guthrie-Smith. It is named in honour of Mr. D. L. Poppelwell, of 

 Gore, whose botanical investigations in Southland and Stewart Island are 

 well known. 



Art. VIII. — On the Occurrence of Poa antipoda Petrie on Herekopere Island. 



By D. Petrie, M.A., Ph.D. 



[Read before the Auckland Institute, 3rd December, 1913.] 



Among some live grasses sent me from Stewart Island by Mr. H. Guthrie- 

 Smith was a piece of Poa antipoda. On receipt some of the culms were in 

 flower, and others flowered after the plant had been established in my 

 garden. This is a form that differs from the type in having slightly larger 

 spikelets and somewhat stiffer leaves. It has been recorded previously only 

 from our subantarctic islands, having been collected on Antipodes Island 

 by the late Mr. T. Kirk in 1890, on Campbell Island by Mr. W. R. Chambers, 

 and on the Auckland Islands by Messrs. Aston and Tennant. This ex- 

 tension of its range to the main islands of New Zealand is a matter of 

 considerable interest. 



The small islands off Stewart Island have now furnished a number of 

 southern plants not found elsewhere outside the subantarctic area, and it 

 is highly desirable that these islands, and especially the Snares, should be 

 carefully explored. The Government might well use their steamers to 

 facilitate this important piece of work. 



