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tain, Nelson, in Dr. Sinclair’s herbarium, much resemble in the beauty: 
of the large flower and in general aspect our M. alpestris Schmidt, 
whose representative in New Zealand it is in some measure. 
of 9 New Zealand species of Myosotis, at least 7 occur in 
Otago. Some of them are subalpine or alpine, ascending to 6000 ft. 
(e. g. M. Hectori, Hook. f.). 
Genus VIII. Tvpua. 
Lu — dile L. East Taeri swamps ; Finegand lagoon, Lower 
Clutha, W. L. L. North Taeri swamps (Martin) ; swamps on banks 
of the Clutha (Buchanan) ; swamps of the Matukituki, Wanaka Lake 
(Sullivan). 
Dr. Hooker, both in the Flora N. Z. and the Handbook (p. 276), 
restricts its distribution to the North Island. But here he is certainly 
in error, inasmuch as the plant is more or less abundant in the 
swampy grounds of the low lands throughout the South Island also.* 
To the settler the plant is well known as the “ Raupo” or * Bul- 
rush ;” and the swamps in which it is plentiful—sometimes to the ex- 
clusion, for the most part, of other phenogamic vegetation—are known 
as “Raupo swamps” (“ Waraüpo" of Dieffenbach), just as “ Flax 
swamps” or “ Tussock swamps” are spoken of. So familiar, indeed, 
are the plant and its economical applications to the natives, that not 
only as a whole, but special of its parts or products have one or more 
Maori designations. Thus the plant as a whole is their “ Kārito,” 
* Kopupüngawha," * Kopu-pungawa” (or its contraction “ Ngawha”), 
or * Koware." The root, which is eaten both raw and cooked by the 
natives, is * Koreirei" or “ Kouka."f The down of the seeds is 
** Hune" (* Iahune" of the East Cape and ** Tahunga” of the Ngapuhi 
dialects ; and a sort of cake or bread made of the flower-pollen, as 
well as the pollen itself, are the ** Püungapünga" (East Cape dialect). 
Prior to, and in the earlier days of, the colonization of New Zealand, 
the huts (or ** Wharés”) both of settlers and natives were, frequently 
at least, lined and thatched, if not sometimes also built, of ** Raupo” 
stems ; but few of these huts or of the ** Wharés" built, lined, or 
* The Middle Island of Dr. Hooker's ‘ Flora N. Z? and ‘ Handbook.’ Vide 
my fetten to New Zealand Botany,’ p. 7. 
t mson's * New Zealand,’ vol. i. p. 
JA seres also applied t o Cordyline indivisa. While with “ Koreirei " may be 
compared the word “Korari,” which pertains to a much more familiar indige- 
nous t, Phormium 
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