G. M. Thomson. — Natural Histori) of Otago Harbour. 251 



165. Artotrogus ovatus G. M. Thomson. 



Dredged and taken in surface-net in Otago Harbour. 



166. Acantiophorus scutatus Brady and Robertson. 

 Dredged in Otago Harbour. 



The Caligidae are not noted here, as all are parasites on fish. Neither 

 have the Balanidae nor the Pantopoda been included in this list. 



Art. XXVIII.^ — Some Hitherto- unrecorded Plant- habitats (VIII). 

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



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury. 4th December. 1912.] 



This paper is divided into three sections. The first contains the usual 

 general plant-habitats ; the second an enumeration of the species collected 

 for me by Miss B. E. Baughan on the Westland slopes of the Copeland 

 Pass and in the Copeland Valley ; and the third a list of species from the 

 Upper Clinton Valley, supplementary to those already published by Petrie 

 (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 28, pp. 540-90), and by Cheeseman in his Manual 

 and in Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 42, pp. 200-8. Miss Baughan's collection is 

 of importance, since it is the first record of the flora of any part of alpine 

 Westland south of the Franz Josef Glacier and its vicinity. The Clinton 

 plants were collected or noted by Mr. J. Crosby Smith, F.L.S., or myself 

 during a brief visit paid to that highly interesting locality in March, 1912. 

 Unfortunately, the weather, except on one day, was very wet, while our 

 work on the actual pass was conducted, in part, during a heavy snowstorm, 

 otherwise the list might have been much longer. As it is, the recorded 

 plants are only increased from 64 to 176, and that cannot nearly represent 

 the total florula. With regard to the species in the first section, those 

 from Marlborough and western Nelson were collected by Mr. C. E. Fower- 

 aker and myself, our collection from the Awatere Valley and its surrounding 

 mountains numbering 303, but only a few are published here. The plants 

 from Mount Oxford, never before enumerated, are being collected with great 

 assiduity by the Rev. J. E. Holloway, M.Sc, and those of Hanmer by Mr. 

 C. Christensen, who is examining the plant-life of that district in a most 

 thorough manner, and has already made discoveries, both floristic and 

 ecological, of considerable importance. The Takitimu plants were collected 

 by myself, but I only reached an altitude of 1,000m. at most; only the 

 more important are recorded, my total collection numbering 124 species. 

 Let me, in concluding these introductory remarks, take this opportunity 

 of thanking most heartily all those mentioned above, together with others 

 cited below, who have so generously and willingly contributed specimens 

 and information. 



I. Species prom various Localities. 

 Acaena Buchanan! Hook. f. subsp. longe filamentosa Bitter. 



South Island: Southland — (1.) Riverton Flats; J. Crosby Smith. 

 (2.) Dunes, Riverton ; L. C. 



