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*FodoGarpas Hallii T. Kirk. 



Usually towards the tops of the hills, wliere it is often rather stunted. 

 Generally known on the peninsula as " niountain-totara." The timber 

 is considered somewhat inferior to that of P. totara. Apparently not 

 hitherto recorded. 



Podocarpus spicafus R. Br. [J. B. A. ; L. C] 



With P. totam this was at one time the chief timber-tree of the 

 forests, now largely destroyed. Above 2,500 ft. it becomes dwarfed and 

 flattened to the rocks. 



Podocarpus dacrydioides A. Rich. [J. B. X.^ 



Much less common than the preceding, and generally on tlie flats, 

 though scattered trees were found in most valleys. " The flat was 

 covered [i.e., in Le Bon's Bay] with white and black pines as thick as 

 they could stand ; and the sides of the valley grew immense totaras 

 and other timber." (H. C. Jacobson, Tales oj Banks Peninsula, 1893.) 



*(^)Dacrydium cupressinum Soland. [J. B. A.] 



I introduce this with hesitation, as I have not seen it on the 

 peninsula, and believe it to be now extinct. However, settlers have 

 assured me that it once grew in Little River, near Okain's, and else- 

 where in small quantity. 



Mr. W. H. Montgomery, of Little River, writes thus: " Rimus used to 

 be common on my land near the Hilltop '" ; and I have heard from other 

 sources that some 40,000 ft. of this timber was taken from a stand on 

 Harman's Track (Puaha). J. B. A. (Trans., vol. 12, p. 328) states the 

 rimu is " chiefly found on the higher ridges, and is here a far inferior 

 tree in beauty compared to the West Coast variety of the same species.'" 

 This does not agree with my information ; and I certainly would expect 

 to find it rather in the moister valleys amongst the denser bush than on 

 the higher ridges." 



Class MONOCOTYLEDONEAE. 



Family Typhaceae. 



Typha angustiJoUa Linn. [J. F. A. ; J. B. A.] 



In swampy places common, thougli becoming less abundant as 

 drainage proceeds. 



Family Naiadaceae. 



Triglochin striatum Ruiz. & Pav. [J. B. A.] 



Kaituna ; Heathcote Estuarv : R. i\L L. Children's Bay, Akaroa : 

 A. W. 



*Ruppia maritima Linn. [J. B. A.] 

 Kaituna, Lake Ellesmere. 



Zosfera nana Roth (?). [J. B. A.] 



I have not examined this species carefully. Lyttelton Harbour and 

 elsewhere. 



*° Potanwgeton pectinafus Linn. 

 Lake Forsyth : T. Kirk. 



*°Potaniogeton ochreatus Raoul. [R. ; J. B. A.] 

 Banks Peninsula is the habitat of the type. 



J. B. A. records two other species — (^)P. nutans and (")P. compressus — ■ 

 but I have not seen them. P. Cheesemanii is to be expected, but has not 

 vet been recorded. 



