364 Transactions. — Botany. 



Urticace^e. 

 Urtica ferox, Forst. 



(1.) Near roadside, Jackson's, Westland, distant twenty- 

 four miles from the sea. (2.) Forming, with Muehlenheckia 

 adpressa and Pteris incisa, a dense thicket at base of rocks 

 near the sea. 



POLYGONACEJE. 



Muehlenbeckia ephedrioides, Hook. f. 



Stony bed of Eiver Conway, near its source, south Marl- 

 borough. 



Chenopodiace^; . 



Atriplex billardieri, Hook. f. 



Shore of Euapuke Island, Foveaux Strait. 



Rhagodia nutans, E. Br. 



Eocky places near sea, Banks Peninsula, Canterbury. 



Eanunculace,e. 

 Ranunculus traversii, Hook. f. 



Source of the Eiver Poulter, in the Snowcup Mountains, 

 not far from where Travers originally discovered this species. 

 I also collected it on Walker's Pass ; it is therefore probably 

 found in alpine meadows all over the Snowcup Eange. The 

 plant, which is here referred to the above species, has the 

 leaves both reniform and peltate, while the flowers are pale- 

 yellow, and not cream-coloured as described by Hooker. Mr. 

 T. F. Cheeseman is of opinion that this plant is not B. tra- 

 versii. It has somewhat the appearance of being a hybrid 

 between B. lyallii and a large - flowered yellow buttercup 

 growing in the same locality, which is either a variety of 

 B. munroi or of B. insignis. 



Ranunculus sericophyllus, Hook. f. 



(1.) On old morainic deposit near source of Eiver Otira, 

 Westland. (2.) Very plentiful near source of Eiver Poulter, 

 in the Snowcup Eange, growing on a stony slope in soil of 

 little depth, but moist, and containing plenty of humus. 



Ranunculus lyallii, Hook. f. 



One plant observed almost at sea-level, Milford Sound, 

 west coast of Otago. 



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Ranunculus tenuicaulis, Cheeseman. 



(1.) Sources of Eiver Poulter. (2.) Kelly's Hill, Westland. 

 In the " Students' Flora," Craigieburn Mountains is given on 

 my authority, but this is a mistake, the specimen having been 

 collected in Westland. 



