Specimen of the Botany of New Zealand, 29 



Syngnathus lumbriciformis , Jenyns. (Worm Pipe-fish.) Holyhead : 

 common. 



Acipenser Sturio, Linn. (Sturgeon.) One of these fish was taken 

 in 1799 in the Severn above Shrewsbury. The specimen is now in 

 the Museum of the Shropshire and North Wales Natural History 

 Society. 



Scyllium Canicula, Cuv. (Spotted Dog-fish.) Common on the 

 Welsh coast. 



Lamna Monensis, Cuv. (Beaumaris Shark.) Has been twice taken 

 in the Menai Straits. 



Selache maximus, Cuv. (Basking Shark.) Occurs but rarely on 

 the Welsh coast. 



Raia Batis, Linn. (Skate.) On the Welsh coast, but not common. 



Raia clavata, Will. (Thornback.) Common. 



Petromyzon marinus, Linn. (Lamprey.) Found in the Severn 

 and Dee. 



Petromyzon fluviatilis, Linn. (Lampern.) Also found in the Severn 

 and Dee ; in the former, though in great abundance, near Worcester : 

 it is rare at Shrewsbury. 



Ammocoetes branchialis, Cuv. (Land Pride.) Common in the 

 brooks of Salop. 



V. — Flora InsuJarum Novce Zelandice Precursor; or a Spe- 

 cimen of the Botany of the Islands of Neiv Zealand. By 

 Allan Cunningham, Esq. 



[Continued from vol. ii. p. 214.] 



HALORAGE.E, R. Br. 



1. Cercodia, Murray, Lamarck. 



Calycis tubus ovario adnatus, limbus 4-partitus. Petala 4. Stam. 8. 

 Stigmata 4, sessilia. Fructus nucamentaceus, indehiscens, tetraqueter, 

 4-alatus, 4-locularis, 4-spermus. 



526. C. erecta, fuliis (oppositis) petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis grosse den- 

 tatis, 2 — 3 uncialibus ; floribus in axillis superioribus sessilibus aggregato- 

 verticillatis. DC. Prodr. iii. p. 67. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zel. p. 324. — 

 Haloragis alata. Jacq. Ic. 1 . t. 69. 



Ti or Toa-Toa, incol. D'Urville, 



New Zealand (Northern Island). — 1769, Sir Jos. Banks. Open fern- 

 grounds, Bay of Islands. — 1826, A. Cunningham. 



527. C. alternifolia, foliis alternis petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acutis grosse 

 serratis scabriusculis (uncialibus), floribus axillaribus pedicellatis solitariis 

 vel in verticillis 2 — 3, versus extremitates ramulorum, ramulis angulatis 

 asperis. 



