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which I wrote some years ago, in which I gave a description of 

 the view from the peak of Mount Owen. " In the middle dis- 

 tance to the north Mount Arthur and the mountains at the head 

 of the Karamea Eiver were the most conspicuous objects, whilst 

 more to the eastward Tasman Bay was seen gleaming blue as 

 amethyst. To the south-west the Lyell Ranges formed a rugged 

 line, and further south the Paparoas stood guard over the coast- 

 line down as far as the Grey Valley. The River Maruia could be 

 followed south in its long-winding course towards the Cannibal 

 Gorge, near where it takes its rise, and the Matakitaki could be 

 traced as a silver line from its rise in the Spenser Ranges to the 

 gorge where Mount Mantell overshadows it. The Buller was seen 

 from its source in Lake Rotoiti, threading its way past Kerr's 

 Lake Station, and increasing in volume as it coursed past the 

 Owen and Murchison." 



My next camp was set up on Boundary Peak at an elevation 

 of 3,000 ft., with the view of botanizing the Lyell end of the 

 Brunner Range. A prospecting-track has been cut along the 

 range for some twenty odd miles, and when completed will reach 

 the Victoria Range near Reefton. This track proved of great 

 service to us, for where the country is clear the line has been 

 marked out by finger-posts, which saved us from taking many 

 a roundabout course when returning tired to our camp. The 

 summit of Boundary Peak reaches an altitude of 4,500 ft., whilst 

 some of the mountains in the chain approach 5,000 ft. and are 

 extremely rugged. There I found a variety of gentian with large 

 flabby leaves, and the pretty little Euphrasia zealandica, but the 

 flowers do not quite answer to the description given in the Flora, 

 as they have a bright-pink centre instead of being white as in the 

 type. Aciphijlla lyallii, A. colensoi, A. hookeri, and A. toivnsoni 

 were plentiful on the farther spurs, associated with Celmisia 

 coriacea and C. armstrongii. Mr. Cheeseman has on several 

 occasions remarked the paucity of varieties of Aciphylla on the 

 eastern ranges as compared with the western, where there are so 

 many. Amongst the stony ridges Azorella haastii and A. pallida 

 were constantly met with, and both Ligusticum deltoidemn and 

 L. itnbricatum were not uncommon. Drapetes villosa var. multi- 

 flora, Celmisia petiolata var. membranacea, Notothlaspi australe 

 var. stellatum, and Ranunculus tenuicaulis were some of the 

 rarities obtained, and amongst the rough crags at an elevation 

 of 4,000 ft. I discovered a new variety of Myosotis. It is white- 

 flowered, and Mr. Cheeseman remarks that "it is apparently 

 allied to M. saxosa and M. lyallii, but differs from both in the 

 flowers being chiefly axillary," and he has named it Myosotis 

 townsoni. It is apparently a rare plant on the Brunner Moun- 

 tains, as I only secured a few specimens after making an ex- 



