226 REPORT— 1891. 



Considering the flowering plants alone with regard to their 

 New Zealand distribution, they may be classed as under : — 



Species. 

 Endemic in the Auckland and Campbell Islands ... 30 

 Extending to the South Island of New Zealand only 27 

 Extending to both North and South Islands, includ- 

 ing naturalised ... ... ... ... 55 



112 

 With the exception of Lomaria dura and the supposed new 

 species of Hymenophyllum, all the ferns are common in both 

 the North and South Islands. 



MACQUARIE ISLAND. 



Macquarie Island is in 54° 35' S. lat. and 159° 3' 45" E. 

 long. It is nearly twenty miles long and five miles in breadth, 

 and is for the most part hilly ; but the hills nowhere rise to 

 more than 800ft. A few plants from this island were sent by 

 Mr. C. Eraser, when Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens at 

 Sydney, to the Kew Herbarium. These were — 



Acaena sanguisorbse, Vahl. 

 „ adscendens, Vahl. 

 Pleurophyllum criniferum. Hook. f. 

 Cotula plumosa, Hook. f. 

 Azorella selago, Hook. f. 

 Luzula crinita, Hook. f. 

 Poa foliosa, Hook. f. 



Nothing further was learned respecting the botany of this 

 island until Professor J. H. Scott, of Dunedin, visited it in 1880, 

 when he published an excellent account of the fauna and flora 

 in the " Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,"'" giving a 

 catalogue of the plants observed by him. He very kindly 

 allowed me to examine his collection before the plants had been 

 identified, when I made a rough list of the species, which differs 

 slightly from that given by him, and is as follows : — • 



Eanunculace^ . 

 Eanunculus aucklandicus, A. Gray. 

 This was destitute of flowers, and is the B. acanlis of Pro- 

 fessor Scott's list. 



Caryophylle^. 

 Colobanthus muscoides. Hook f. 

 Stellaria elatinoides. Hook. f. 

 A small scrap, but unmistakable. Omitted by Professor 

 Scott. 



* Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xv., p. 484. 



