KiKK. — On the Botany of Otago. 533 



Dr. Archibald Menzies, surgeon to Captain Vancouver's 

 •expedition, collected largely at Dusky Sound in 1791, especi- 

 ally in Ferns, Musci and Hepaticas. Many beautiful species 

 collected by him were described by Sir William Hooker in his 

 " Musci Exotici," and in Hooker and Greville's " Icones Fili- 

 cum." Gentiana saxosa was also collected by Menzies, but 

 was not seen by other collectors until it was found by Pro- 

 fessor Hutton at the Bluff in 1873. 



Dr. Lyall, surgeon on H.M.S. "Acheron," during Captain 

 Stokes's survey of the South Island, 1847-49, made large col- 

 lections of plaiits in Stewart Island, Foveaux Strait, and the 

 west coast of Otago, including many important additions to the 

 flora, the most striking being the grand Baninicuhis lyalli 

 (found in a flowerless state only) and Senecio hifistulosus. 

 These and others were described by Sir Joseph Hooker in 

 "Flora Novae-Zelandiae." 



In 1861 Dr. W. Lauder Lindsay visited Otago, spending 

 rather less than three months in the district, during which he 

 made excursions to Taieri Ferry, Clutha Ferry, Tuapeka, 

 Wetherstone's Diggings, and other places within sixty miles 

 of Dunedin, and proved himself a most indefatigable col- 

 lector and acute observer. Long known an an able licheno- 

 logist, he exhibited a decided preference for lichens and 

 other cryptogams, of which he made extensive collections, but 

 was scarcely less enthusiastic in his investigation of the 

 flowering-plants of the district, adding Celmisia Undsayi and 

 Poa Undsayi to the flora. Viscum Undsayi, named in his honour 

 by Professor Oliver, was originally discovered by Mr. Buchanan. 

 The results of his work were published in 1868, under the title 

 of " Contributions to New Zealand Botany," with several 

 coloured illustrations by Fitch. He gives a catalogue of the 

 plants collected during his excursions, showing 199 species of 

 flowering-plants, 40 ferns, &c., 149 lichens, 110 diatoms, with 

 numerous mosses, algae, and fungi, making a total of 610 

 species, of which 50 were supposed to be undescribed. The 

 work abounds with critical notes, which are always interesting, 

 and often of high value, the whole constituting an almost 

 unique contribution to the botanical literature of the colony. 



In 1862-63 Sir James Hector and Mr. Buchanan explored 

 large portions of the West Coast sounds and mountains, and 

 succeeded in making numerous important additions to the 

 flora, most of which were described in the " Handbook of the 

 New Zealand Flora" by Sir Joseph Hooker, 1864-67. In 

 addition to the discovery of new species, they greatly extended 

 our knowledge of indigenous plants. Amongst the most 

 remarkable of their discoveries were Pachycladon novcB- 

 zclandicB, Ranuncidus buchanani, B. chordorhizos, B. pachyr- 

 rhizus, HectoreUa ccespitosa, &c. 



