252 Transactions. 



Aciphylla Dobsoni Hook. f. 



South Island : Otago — Mount Jones, near Lake Hawea, on rock at 

 summit. B. Seth-Smitli ! 



Agrostis muscosa T. Kirk. 



South Island: (1.) Marlborough — Awatere Valley; Foweraker and L. C. 

 (2.) Nelson — Steppe of Tarndale Moraine; Foweraker and L. C. 



Alsophila Colensoi Hook. f. 



South Island ; Southland — Takitimu Mountains. L. C. 



Anisotome carnosula (Hook, f.) Cockayne and Laing. 



South Island; Marlborough — Shingly Kange, Awatere, at 1,200 m. 

 altitude. Foweraker and L. C. 



Astelia montana (T. Kirk) Coekayne. 



South Island : Southland- — Common in lowland Danthoiiia Raoidii 

 steppe. L. C. 



Carex Muelleri Petrie. 



South Island ; Marlborough — Awatere Valley. Foweraker and L. C. 



Celmisia coriacea Hook. f. var. stricta Cockayne var. nov. 



Caules multiramosi, folia ty^o rigidiora supra valde argentea basim 

 versus sensim angustata. 



South Island ; Southland^Forming at and above 900 m. altitude con- 

 tinuous silvery masses on the hill-sides, which extend as far as the eye 

 can see, and give a distinctive colour to the slopes even at a considerable 

 distance. Takitimu Mountains. L. C. 



This variety branches more than the type, so that one plant may con- 

 sist of more than thirteen rosettes, each 62 cm. high, and the whole 1-9 m. 

 in diameter. The leaves are narrower and more rigid than those of the 

 type, extremely silvery on the upper surface, the margins strongly recurved, 

 and the lamina gradually tapers above in a long acute apex and below into 

 the comparatively narrow petiole. The silvery pellicle of the upper leaf- 

 surface of C. coriacea decreases considerably in plants grown under lowland- 

 garden conditions, but, so far as plants in cultivation with me go, those of 

 this variety still remain much more silvery than those from the Hanmer 

 mountains, both being planted at about the same time. The typical form 

 of C. coriacea is present in the wetter mountains to the west of the Taki- 

 timus, so the distribution of the two forms is analogous with that of Gaya 

 rihifolia and G. Lyallii (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 44, p. 38; 1912). 



Celmisia Haastii Hook. f. 



South Island ; (1.) Canterbury — Fellfield near summit of Mount Oxford ; 

 J. E. Holloway ! (2.) Otago — Summit of Mount Jones, near Lake Hawea; 

 B. Seth-Smith ! 



Celmisia lanceolata Cockayne. 



South Island : Southland — Near summit of the Hump. J. Crosby 

 Smith ! 



Celmisia Lyallii Hook. f. 



South Island : Canterbury — Fellfield of Mount Oxford. J. E. Hollo- 

 way ! 



