T. KiEK. — On Neio Zealand Soiu-thistles. 263 



C. trachycarpa, Clieescm. 



Mount Owen. T. F. C. 

 C. muelleri, Petrie. 



Valley of the Stanley, Amm-i, &c. T. K. 

 C. buchanani, Berg. 



Amuri, Spenser Mountains, &c. T. K. 

 C. dipsacea, Berq. 



Motueka Valley, &c. T. K. 

 C. devia, Cheesem. 



D'Urville Island ; H. B. Kirk! Dun Mountain ; B. I. Kings- 

 Icy ! 

 C. wakatipu, Petrie. 



Amuri. T. K. 

 C. uncifolia, Cheesem. 



Wairau Valley. T. F. C. ! 

 C. comans, Bc?-g. 



Amuri, Spenser Mountains. T. K. 

 C. petriei, Cheesem. 



Mount Arthur District. T. F. C. 

 C. litorosa, Bailey. 



Nelson Harbour. T. K. 

 C. solandri, Boott, in Fl. N.Z., i., 284. 



Westpcrt, Eichmond, &c. T. K. 



In the "Handbook of the New Zealand Flora " this species 

 is erroneously united with C. neesiana, Endlicher, of Norfolk 

 Island, from W'hich it differs in the more slender habit, nar- 

 rower leaves, ? spikelets slender, distant, pendulous, on long 

 filiform peduncles ; the glumes are almost papery, and the 

 awn is very short, or 0, more especially in the faintly nerved, 

 narrow-ovate, black, shining utricles. 



C. flava, L., var. cataractse. 



Mount Captain Eange, Amuri ; Spenser Mountains ; Lake 

 Guyou. 



Aet. XXIV. — Bemarks on the Neio Zealand Soio-thistles, 

 loith Description of a Neiu Species. 



By T. KiEK, F.L.S. 



[Bead before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 21st February, 1S94.] 



In all probability there are no common New Zealand plants 

 about which the ideas of local botanists and agriculturists are 

 so confused as the sow-thistle. The range of variation in the 

 habit and foliage of some species is so great that an ordinary 



