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but every year it got narrower and narrower. The City Council had 

 done something to preserve some areas at tlie head of the stream, but it 

 was, of course, desirable thai stimething more should be done. 



The following botanical notes were received from Mr. B. C. 

 Aston : — 



List of Plants supplementary to the Dunedin Field Club's 



Catalogue of Dunedin Plants. 



Indigenous. 



Haloeage^e.— Callitricho muelleri, F. Sond. : Flagstaff Hil', Dun- 

 edin. 



CoMPOsiT.*:.— Olearianummularifolia, Hook. f. ; Maungatua, 2,000 ft. 

 Raoulia grandifiora, Hook. /. ; Maungatua, 3,000 ft. Cassinia fulvida. 

 Hook, f., var. rubra. Buck. ; Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin Reservoir (rare). 



Erice^. — Cyathodes pumila, Hook, f.; Maungatua, 3,000 ft. 

 Cyathodes colensoi. Hook. f. ; Maungatua, 2.000 ft. 



Solane.e. — Solanum nigrum, L. ; near Tomahawk Lagoon. 



Plantagine^. — Plantago triandra ; Tomahawk Lagoon. 



ScROPHULARiNE^. — Glossostigma elatinoides, Benth. ; Wycliffe Bay. 

 Veronica canescens, T. Kirk ; Wycliffe Bay. 



Introduced. 



Umbellifer.i:. — Torilis nodosa; St. Clair Cliffs. 



Composite. — Cnicus arvensis (Californian thistle) ; common. 

 Arctium majus (giant burdock) ; Duke Street Reserve. 



Neic Habitats for sonic Rare Otago Plants. 

 Hymenanthera angustifolia, R. Br.; Winton (rare). 

 Aristotelia colensoi, Hook. f. ; Colac Bay. 

 Geum leiospermum, D. Petrie ; Ben Lomond, 4,000 ft. 

 Tillpea sinclairii. Hook. f. ; Wycliffe Bay. 

 Gunnera arenaria, Cheeseman, vnr. depressa ; Fprtrose. 

 Gunnera dcntata, T. Kirk ; Lowther, near Lumsden. 

 Panax anomalum, Hook, f., var. microphylia, Col. ; Sandymount. 

 Pseudopanax ferox, T. Kirk; Green Island, Clifden, Gore. 

 Coprosma virescens, D. Petrie ; Clifden (Waiau River). 

 Coprosma vulva, D. Petrie ; Clifden (Waiau River), Tapanui. 

 Olearia nummularifolia, Hook. f. ; Colac Bay, Kingston. 

 Celmisia petiolata, Jioofc./., rar. rigida; INIason's Bay, Stewart Island. 

 Helichrysum purdiei, D. Petrie ; St. Leonard's, Blanket Bay. 

 Cyathodes pumila, Hook. f. ; Blue Mountains, 3,000 ft. (abundant). 

 Myrsme nummularia, Hook. f. ; under hog-pines. Blue Mountains, 

 3.500 ft. 



Teucridium parviflorum. Hook. f. ; Clifden, North Otago Heads. 

 Pimelea sericeo-villosa, Hook. f. ; Ben Lomond, 4,000 ft. 

 Sarcochilus adversus, Hook. f. ; St. Leonards, Blanket Bay. 



Plants omitted from Messrs. Kirk and Petrie's Lists of Otago Plants 

 (Vohimes XXVIII. and XXIX., Transactions). 



Colobanthus muelleri, T. Kirk; Foitrose, B. C. A. ; Stewart Island, 

 T. Kirk. 



Cassinia fulvida, Hook. /., var. rubra, Buchanan ; Flagstaff Hill 

 and Reservoir, Dunedin. 



Cotula minor, Hook. f. ; Stewart Island, T. Kirk. 



Plantago triandra ; Tomahawk Lagooo, B. C. A. 



Hedycarya dentata, Forst. ; near Port Chalmers, T. Kirk; West 

 Coast ^Sounds, T. Kirk; "common in Otago," Hector and Buchanan : 

 Hooker's Handbook, 1864, p. 739. 



