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Art. XXII. — Some Hitherto-unrecorded Plant-habitats (VT). 

 By L. Cockayne, Ph.D., F.L.S. 



\Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 7th December, 1910.] 



A NUMBER of the following records are from Westland, the flora of which 

 district is probably less known than that of any other part of the New 

 Zealand biological region. A number of quite common species are noted 

 from Mount Greenland, as it seems well to give some idea of the florula of 

 a comparatively low mountain (904 m.) situated only a few miles from the 

 coast. It is clad with dense forest, except near the flattish summit, where 

 there is a small patch of grass land and scattered shrubs. 



To Messrs. Johannes C. Andersen, H. Hamilton, D. L. Poppelwell, W. 

 Willcox, and W. Wilson I tender my hearty thanks for many specimens, 

 some of which are recorded below. 



Abrotanella linearis Bergg. 



South Island : Westland — Mount Greenland, near summit, in boggy 

 ground. L. C. 



Apiuni prostratum La bill. 



South Island : Nelson — Neai- VVestport, in salt meadow. L. C. 



Ascarina lucida Hook. f. 



South Island : Westland — An extremely common member of the low- 

 land taxad forest of northern and central Westland, ascending probably to 

 about 180 m. L. C. 



Carmichaelia grandifiora Hook. f. 



South Island : Westland — Common on lowland river-beds, and attaining 

 a great size. L. C. 



Carpha alpina R. Br. 



South Island : Westland — Mount Greenland, in boggy groiuid near the 

 summit. L. C. 



Celmisia Armstrongii Petrie. 



South Island : Westland — Mount Willberg, subalpine. P. Hende ! 



Celmisia coriacea (Forst. f.) Hook. f. 



South Island: Westland — Styx Saddle, at 760m. and upwards. H. 

 Hamilton. 



Celmisia incana Hook. f. var. petiolata T. Kirk. 



South Island : Westland — Mount Greenland, near summit, L. C. 



I think it would be better to unite this widely spread form with C. dis- 

 color, or to constitute it a species, restricting C. incana to the series of 

 forms with lax, soft, snow-white tomentum on both sides of the leaf. 



Celmisia longifolia Cass. var. alpina T. Kirk. 



South Island : Westland — Mount Greenland, in boggy ground near the 

 summit. L. C. 



