SuTER. — List of Recent Shells found Fossil in New Zealand. 13 



202. Protocardia pulchella, Gray, P., M. 



203. Psammohin lineolata. Gray. P., M., 0. 



204. stangen, Gray. P., M. 



205. Soletellina nitida, Gray. P., M. 



206. Corhula macilenta, Hutton. P. 



207. zelandica, Q. & G. P. 



208. Saxicava arctica, L. P. 



209. Panopea zelandica, Q. & G. P., M. 



210. Pholadidea spathulata, Sowerby. P. 



211. Barnea similis, Gray. P. 



212. Thracia vitrea, Hutton. P., M, 



213. Cochlodesma angasi, Crosse and Fischer. P. 



214. Myodora antipodum, E. A. Smith. P. 



215. boltoni, E. A. Smith. P. 



216. novcB-zealandice, E. A. Smith. P. 



217. striata, Q. & G. P. 



218. suhrostrata, E. A. Smith. P., M. 



219. Chamostrea albida, Lamarck. P.. M. 



Art. III. — Botanical Notes made on a Journey across the Tararuas* 

 By Bernard Cracroft Aston, F.I.C, F.C.S. 



\^Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, \st September, 1909.] 



The portion of the Tararua Range treated of in this narrative may be 

 viewed from AVellington, stretching beyond the Upper Hutt Valley. At 

 the southern end is seen the rounded outline of Mount Marchant (3,406 ft.), 

 followed, more to the north, by three much lower conical-topped hills ;. 

 then a conical mountain stands out nearer the beholder than the conical 

 hills, and on a level with Mount Marchant. The Quoin (3,905 ft.), the 



* Some of the information contained in this account is drawn from experience 

 acquired on trips other than those herein described. Chronologically enumerated, the 

 author's acquaintance with these mountains is derived from — (1) A three-days trip to 

 Mount Holdsworth with Professor Easterfield. D.'. L. Cockayne, and^Ii'. A. H. Cockayne. 

 in January, 1906 ; (2) a three-days solitary ramble on Mount Dennan and in the Otaki 

 Gorge, in December, 1906 ; (3) a three-days ascent of Mount Hector from Otaki, in 

 January, 1907, with Messrs. D. Petrie, A. Hamilton. J. S. Tennant, W. C. Davies, and 

 Alfred Jones ; (4) a three-days journey on ^loimt Holdsworth. in March, 1907, with Messrs. 

 G. de S. Baylis and Turners (two) ; (.5) three days on Mount Holdsworth with Messrs. 

 D. Petrie and J. S. Tennant, in January, 1908 : (6) the crossing of the range here described ; 

 (7) a two-days trip up tlie Hutt Gorge with Mr. John Ohilwell, in November, 1908 ; (8) a 

 partial ascent of Mount Dennan with Messrs. C. O'Connor and Simmonds, at Easter, 

 1909 ; (9) an ascent of the Quoin, via the ridge, in .June, 1909, with Mr. E. Phillips Turner. 



Since writing this paper the author, with Mr. W. H. Field, ^I.P., and Mr. L. 

 Phillips, of Kaitoke. on 12th February. 1910, crossed from Kaitoke to Otaki Gorge 

 settlement m twenty-foui- hours actual walking-time, the journey occupying, including 

 the time taken for sleep, only thirty-six hours. The Kaitoke ridge track was followed, 

 the route otherwise being as described above. The high levels were obscured by mist, 

 which, however, occasionally lifted. Abundance of water was found, as before. 



