242 Mr Coats' Report on a Visit to Glenure. [sess lii. 



Junipevus nana. 

 Taxus baccata. 

 Orchis latifolia. 

 Habenaria viridis. 

 Tofieldia palustris. 

 Potamogeton natans. 

 Carex paniculata. 



glauca. 

 Deschanipsia caespitosa. 

 Melica nutans. 



Asplenium Atliantum-nigruui. 



Ruta-muraria. 

 Scolopendriuni vulgare. 

 Cystoptei'is fragilis. 

 Polystichuni aculeatum. 

 Lastrea Oreopteris. 

 Osmunda regalis. 

 Equisetum palustre. 

 Chara fraailis. 



Heteropltylly in New Zcalmid Veronicas. By EOBERT 

 Lindsay, Curator, Pioyal Botanic Garden. (Plates 

 V. and VI.) 



(Road 14th June 1888.) 



The shrubby species of Veronica, which abound in New 

 Zealand, are of great interest both from a botanical and from 

 a horticultural point of view. A large number of species 

 have proved to be thoroughly hardy, and well adapted for 

 cultivation in our climate. Forming, as most of them do, 

 small, compact, evergreen bushes, they are found to be in- 

 valuable for the decoration of rock-gardens or other situations 

 where dwarf-growing shrubs are required. One of the first 

 to recognise their value in this respect was the late Mr Isaac 

 Anderson Henry, who from time to time exhibited these 

 plants at our meetings, and from whose garden at Hay Lodge, 

 Trinity, many of the species now in cultivation in this 

 country can be traced. The late Mr Gorrie was also an 

 assiduous collector of New Zealand plants, including Vero- 

 nicas. But the feature I wish specially at present to notice 

 is, that some of the species, viz., those which have been 

 termed "Whip-cord" Veronicas, present i-emarkable instances 

 of heterophylly. My attention was first directed to this 

 occurrence in a rather peculiar manner. In the summer of 

 1881 Mr Henry exhibited a plant, under tlie name of Veronica 

 salicornioides, at a meeting of the Scottish Horticultural 

 Society, for which he was awarded a first-class certificate. 

 An oljjection was afterwards raised on the ground that, as 

 this ])lant was more like a Conifer than a Veronica, the 

 certificate should have been withheld until the plant had 

 Ijeen seen in flower. Mr Henry had no doubt tliat the 

 plant was what he represented it to be ; still, in the absence 



