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Family Urticaceae. 



Paratrophis microph/Ua Cockayne. [J. F. A. ; J. B. A. ; L. C] 

 Abundant in the forest. 



Urtica incisa Poir. [J. F. A. ; J. B. A. ; L. C] 



In forest. 



Urtica ferox Forst. f. [J. F. A. ; J. B. A. ; L. C] 



Abundant in forests and in their neighbourhood. 



*Parietaria dehilis Forst. f. [J. B. A.] 



In scrub near Caton's Bay, Little Akaloa, and elsewhere, but not 

 common. 



Aiistralina pusilla Gaud. [J. B. A.] 



Mount Pleasant ; Cooper's Knobs (perhaps extinct in this locality) ; 

 Port Levy, on sides of small waterfall ; Barry's Bay, in dark creek. 



Family Loranthaceae. 



Lomnthus micranthus Hook. f. [J. F. A. ; J. B. A. ; L. C] 



Common ; becoming a pest in Akaroa, where it attacks fruit-trees 

 and other deciduous trees such as Rohinia pseudacacia, and even the 

 willow. (See also Out in the Open. p. 135.) 



Tupeia antarctica Cham. & Schl. [J. F. A. ; J. B. A. ; T. P. ; L. C] 



Lyttelton {Out in the Open, p. 138) ; Stony Bay ; Akaroa ; Caton's 

 Bay ; Port Levy. 



Korthalsella TAndsayi Engler. [J. F. A. ; J. B. A. ; T. P.] 



On Myrsine Urvillei at Purau, on Myrtus ohcordata at Stony Bay, 

 and on Melicope simplex at Port Levy. 



Korthalsella salicornioides Van Tiegh. [J. B. A. ; L. C. ; T. P.] 



Wainui ; Caton"s Bay, on Leptospermum : R. i\L L. Lyttelton Hills : 

 Potts ; Cockayne. Dover Castle : A. W. 



Of this species Potts {Out in the Open, p. 139) writes : " The writer 

 only knows one habitat, that amongst a group of rocks just above the 

 sea in Port Cooper. At the spot mentioned it makes use of the small- 

 leaved manuka {Leptospermum ericoides) as a fostering plant." Doubt- 

 less extinct in locality referred to. 



Family Polygonaceae. 



Polygonum aviculare Linn. [J. F. A.] 



By roadsides, common ; probably introduced. 



Rumex flexuosus Soland. [J. F. A. ; J. B. A. ; L, C] 

 Common. 



Muehlenbeckia australis Meissn. [J. F. A. ; J. B. A. ; L. C] 

 Abundant. 



Muehlenbeckia complexa Meissn. [J. F. A. ; J. B. A. ; L. C] 



Everywhere abundant at the edge of forests and in dry stony ground. 



* Muehlenbeckia axillaris. [J. B. A.] 



Top of Saddle Peak. Seen nowhere else by me. 



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