ABOTANICAL DISCOVERY. XXXil 
plant-names is also a subject to which he has devoted much time and 
labour, and the list appended to this work is in great measure due 
to his friendly co-operation. 
Mr. A. Hamilton, the present Director of the Colonial Museum, 
made an interesting collection of plants at Okarito in 1878, which 
included several novelties. Among them was the remarkable species 
described by Hooker as Euphrasia disperma, which has since been 
taken by Wettstein as the type of his genus Anagosperma. At a 
later date he botanized in the Hawke’s Bay District, along the flanks 
of the Ruahine Range, and elsewhere on the eastern side of the North 
Island. In 1894 he visited Macquarie Island, and, although much 
hindered by exceptionally severe weather and other untoward circum- 
stances, succeeded in adding considerably to our knowledge of the 
botany of the island. A list of the plants collected will be found in his 
““ Notes on a Visit to Macquarie Island ” (Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxvii., 559). 
Mr. H. Hill, of Napier, has also collected largely in the Hawke’s Bay 
and Hast Cape districts. Many of his specimens were communicated 
to Mr. Colenso, and were described by that gentleman as new species. 
He was the first to find the widely distributed Peperomia reflexa in 
the colony, and to rediscover the plant to which the name of Veronica 
Colensoi was originally applied by Hooker. 
Mr. J. D. Enys, for several years resident at Castle Hill, in the 
middle portion of the Waimakariri basin, and a keen observer in many 
branches of natural science, made large collections.in the Canter- 
bury Alps in the years between 1874 and 1890. Among his discoveries 
may be mentioned Ranunculus Enysu and R. paucifolius, Carmichelia 
Enysui, Ligusticum Enysu, Botrychium lunaria, &c. He also paid 
a visit to the Chatham Islands, bringing back a few interesting plants, 
among which were the first specimens of the endemic Sonchus grandi- 
folius. His collections were for the most part communicated either 
to Mr. Kirk or myself. 
Mr. James Adams, of Thames, has botanized in several parts of both 
the North and South Islands, making several interesting discoveries, 
~the chief of which are Celmisia Adamsn, Loranthus Adamsii, and Myo- 
sotis amabilis. His papers on the Botany of Te Aroha Mountain 
(Trans. N.Z. Inst., xvil., 275); on the Botany of Te Moehau (Jbid., 
xxi., 32); and the Botany of Hikurangi Mountain (Jbid., xxx., 414); 
contain much interesting matter bearing on the distribution of the 
New Zealand flora. 
Mr. F. R. Chapman (now Mr. Justice Chapman) has collected in 
Otago, and in 1890 visited the Auckland Islands and other islands to 
the south of New Zealand. His paper on ‘“ The Outlying Islands 
South of New Zealand” contains much valuable information of a 
botanical nature. He has also published two papers containing 
descriptions of certain new species of Celmisia (Trans. N.Z. Inst., xxii, 
444; and xxiii., 407). 
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