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Art. XXXII. — Note on the Cooh Strait Habitat of Veronica 

 macroiira, Hook. f. 



By L. Cockayne, Ph.D. 



[Read before the Philosophical Inslitute of Canterbury, 14th November, 190(5.] 



According to T. Kirk (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. x.wiii, p. 531) and 

 T. F. Cheesenian ("Manual of the New Zealand Flora," p. 501), 

 Veronica macroura has not been observed on the shores of Cook 

 Strait of late years, notwithstanding that this was one of the 

 habitats where Colenso discovered a Veronica which, with the 

 one common in the East Cape district, was made into the 

 " systematic species " bearing the above name. This note is 

 merely to point out the fact that a few plants of this species, 

 however, do still occur on the shores ot Cook Strait, growing o]i 

 the face of solid rock facing the ocean between Island Bay 

 and Happy Valley. I am quite well acquainted with Veronica 

 macroura as it crows on the shores of the East Cape district, 

 and the Cook Strait plant is, in my opinion, a form of the same 

 species. Mr. H. J. Matthews, who with me visited the Island 

 Bay habitat in January, 1906, agrees with my determination, 

 but at the same time considers that the form in question should 

 be distinguished by, at any rate, a varietal name. With this 

 opinion I am qiiite in accord. I have deposited specimens in 

 the herbarium of the Canterbury Museum, and placed a living 

 plant in the botanical experimental garden of Canterbury Col- 

 lege, where it is still keeping its semi-prostrate habit, thus show- 

 ing clearly that this latter feature is not merely a non-hereditary 

 adaptation to the wir-d-swept, dry, rocky station. 



Art. XXXIII. — Some Hitherto-unrecorded Plant-habitats (II). 

 By L. Cockayne, Ph.D. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterburi/, I4th Xorcmber, 1906.] 

 The following list contains not only the names of plants col- 

 lected or observed by myself, but also by others who have 

 kindly supplied me with specimens or information, notably 

 Messrs. H. J. Matthews, H?nrv P. Young of Orepuki, E. M. 

 Laing, M.A., B.Sc, F. G. Gibbs, M.A., of Nelson, J. Crosby- 

 Smith of Invercargill, and F. W. Huffam of Motueka. 



So far as the Longwood Range is concerned, all the plants 

 observe^:] above the forest-line by Crosby-Smith, H. P. Young, 



