NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 327 
latter, however, has a different form of leaf. Between Tuguriorum 
and sepium there are sometimes considerable differences, as regards the 
size of the plant, size and form of leaf, form of bracts, and other cha- 
racters, especially if the contrast be made with the larger forms of the 
latter species. Nevertheless they do not seem to me to be properly 
separable. In my specimens of Tuguriorum, stem and leaves are 
glabrous. Leaf about 1 in. long, acuminate, 2-lobed at the base, 
broadly cordate. Bracts as long as the calyx, broadly ovate, acuminate. 
2. C. Soldanella, Br. Sand-dunes about the mouth of the Kaikorai ; 
October, young, W. L. L. The “ Panahi”* or ** Nahinahi” of the 
North Island Maori,—terms, however, probably applied also to other 
species of the genus. 
Roots several feet long, trailing over or in the sand, like those of va- 
rious of our littoral * Bents” (grasses or sedges). Leaves glabrous, 
cordate-reniform, not decidedly broader than long, about 1 in. both in 
length and breadth, subacuminate, less reniform and with a much 
more acute apex than in any British specimens, in some respects 
intermediate in character between those of Tuguriorum and sepium, 
but stouter than either. 
Though I did not myself meet with them, C. sepium, L., and C. eru- 
bescens, Br. also apparently occur in Otago. The former is * Panahi ” 
and ** Pohüehüe ” or “ Pohue’ (Colenso) of the North Island Maoris, 
who also probably apply the term ** Wéne”’ to its young shoots (Wil- 
liams), its rhizome, like that of Pteris aquilina, var. esculenta,t having 
once formed one of the native foods. Certain forms of C. sepium closely 
approach those of C. Tuguriorum ; they appear, moreover, to affect the 
same habitat, and to occur occasionally intermixed, whence it hap- 
pens that they are apt to be confounded,— if they are to be considered 
separate species, an arrangement of the propriety of which (I have al- 
ready stated) I have some doubt. In Holstein specimens of C. sepium} 
(from Wedel, on the Elbe), the leaves are very delicate and mem- 
branous, 4 in. long by 3 in. broa 
Genus VI. SOLANUM. 
1. S. aviculare, Forst. In the bush, Jeffcott’s station, Stoneyhill, 
ee T. “ Panachi," applie ed also to C. sepium (Colenso). 
E Qd my Ep on * Otago Ferns," Trans. of Botanical Society of Edin- 
p. 40. 
ae in "Not e 34 the Flora of Holstein ;” *Phytologist, new series, vol i. 
