818 Transactions. — Botany. 



Art. LIII. — Additional Contributions to the Flora of the 

 Nelson Provincial District. 



By T. Kirk, F.L.S. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 2ith February, 1886.] 



In the fourteenth volume of the Transactions, Mr. Cheeseman 

 has given a valuable catalogue of plants observed by him in the 

 Provincial District of Nelson. I now venture to supplement his 

 list with an enumeration of the species collected during my 

 hasty visits to different parts of the district, and which do not 

 appear to have come under his notice. I have added a few 

 species, of which specimens have been given to me by Mr. P. 

 Lawson, who resided in Nelson for two years ; the Eev. F. H. 

 Spencer, now of Eeefton; and Mr. D. Grant, of Nelson: the 

 authority being stated in each case. A few localities are stated 

 for such plants as Mimulus repens, Epacris paucifiora, Lomaria 

 fraseri, etc., etc., inserted by Mr. Cheeseman on the authority 

 of the "Handbook of the New Zealand Flora," but not actually 

 observed by him. 



Although the plants now catalogued form a material ad- 

 dition to the previous record, the chief interest lies in the im- 

 portance of certain species from the phyti-geographical point of 

 view: e.g., Actinotus bellidioides, Liparophyllum gunnii, Metrosideros 

 robusta, 21. tomentosa, ScJwnns nitens, Gladium teretifolium, Eu- 

 phrasia disperma, Trichomanes humile, etc., etc. ; but our know- 

 lege of the Flora of the district must be made more complete 

 before we are able to appreciate their correct significance. 



Ranunoulace.e. 

 Clematis afoliata, J. Buch. Hanmer Plains ; Wai-au-ua River. 

 Ranunculus subscaposus, Hook. f. Two forms of this plant are 

 not uncommon by the Stanley River, and in other 

 parts of the Amuri : — 



a. Erect, leaves on long petioles, excessively silky, 

 peduncles stout, much shorter than the leaves. 

 /3. Much branched, sub-fluilant, hairy or almost 

 glabrous ; petioles short. 



CRUCIFERiE. 



Lepidium oleraceum, Forst. The Arrow Rock, H. B. Kirk ! 



Pittospore^;. 

 Pittosporum patulum, Hook. f. Spencer Mountains. 



Hypericine^. 

 Hypericum gramineum, Forst. Nelson. 



