288 Trnnsactions. 



Art. XXXIV. — Notes of a Botanical Excursion to Northern Portion of the 



Eyre Movntains. 



By D. L. POPPELWELL. 



\^Rpnd before the Otago Institute, 3rd December, 1912.] 



General. 



In the company of Mr. James Speden, of Gore, I spent two days on the 

 mountain west of Lake Wakatipu during the Easter holidays of 1912. We 

 left Queenstown by oil-launch at 8 a.m. on the 8th April, arri\ang at Table 

 Bay about 9 a.m. We journeyed thence about eight or nine miles up the 

 valley to a hut, at about 2,800 ft. elevation, belonging to the proprietor 

 of the Walter Peak Station. This we made our headquarters, and made 

 excui-sions to the mountain-tops round us, reaching a height of about 

 5,600 ft. on the southem side of Mount Walter, returning to Queenstown 

 across the lake on the evening of the 9th. 



As no list of the plants of this locality has, so far as I am aware, been 

 hitherto published, a note of those collected by us may be of interest. Among 

 the plants noted was Aciphylla Spedeni CheeSeman n. sp. {ante. p. 93), which 

 is now shown to extend from the Symmetry Peaks, where the writer found 

 it in 1910, to Cecil Peak, where Mr. Speden foimd it a few months ago, 

 and to Walter Peak. 



I append a list of the plants observed, which totalled 177 species, spre; d 

 over ninety-two genera and forty-one orders. 



Pteridophyta. 

 Hy>Henophyllaceae. 

 Hymetwphyllum tunbridgense (L.) Smith. Subalpine^rocks. 



Polypodiaceae. 



Polystichun vestitum, (Forst. f.) Presl. Lowland and mountain meadow. 



cystostegia Hook. f. Alpine meadow and among rocks. 



Blechnum. penna marina (Porr.) Kuhn. Lowland and alpine meadow. 



capense (L.) Schlecht. Lowland meadow and rocks. 



fluviatile (R. Br.) Lowe. Lowland meadow. 



Hypolepis temnfolia (Foi-st. f.) Bernh. Lowland meadow. 



Pteridium esculentum (Forst. f.) Cockayne. Lowland meadow, abmidant. 

 Polypodium Billardieri (Willd.) C. Chr. Epiphytic on rocks at 3,500 ft. 

 Cheilanlhes Sieheri Kunze. Lowland sunny faces, lake-side. 



Lycopodiaceae. 



Lycopodium Selago L. Alpine rocks. 



fastigiatum R. Br. Mountain meadow. 



voluhile Forst. Among scrub. 



scariosum Forst. Subalpine heath. 



Spermophyta. 

 Taxaceae. 

 Podocarpvs nivalis Hook. Alpine scrub up to 3,000 ff. 



