330 NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 
roofed with Tree-fern stems and leaves, or with * Totara" bark, wood, 
or shingle, are now to be seen in the vicinity of European settlements. 
* Raupo” is sometimes associated with ** Maori Heads" * (Carex vir- 
gata, var. secta), as one of the landmarks of the dangerous swamps of 
the interior, which have been described by Sullivan and other explorers 
(e. g. in the dud A ag about Lake Wanaka). 
Genus IX. LIBER 
l. L. grandiflora, pam CL. izioides, var. macrocarpa, Fl. N. Z.). 
Church Hill, Dunedin; Greenisland coast-cliffs; sand-dunes about 
mouth of the Kaikorai; ranges between Kaikorai Hill and the Taeri 
Plains; November, in jus W.L.L. In its panicle and flower- 
stem the plant somewhat resembles our Alisma Plantago, L., a genus, 
and belonging to an Order, not represented in New Zealand. The 
capsule, stem, and leaves are the seat of a very minute, black, puncti- 
form, parasitic Spheria. Flower-stem is 10—15 in. long. Leaf some- 
times 3 ft. long, and 4-3 in. broad; linear and grass-like, but rigid 
and coriaceous. I suspect L. grandiflora is properly but a form of 
L. ixioides—which is the ** Turutu” of the South Island Maori (Lyall), 
a term also applied to Dianella intermedia, Endl. (N. O. Liliaceg)— 
having larger flower and fruit. The size of the latter is, however, an 
inconstant character, and an unsafe basis, therefore, per se, for classi- 
fication. 
What appears to be my Otago plant (white-flowered) has stood 
well, in open ground, several winters (1865-66-67) at Trinity, near 
Edinburgh ; as yet, however, flowering sparingly (Gorrie and Anderson- 
Henry). 
Genus X. DROSERA. 
l. D. binata, Lab. Swamps, Abbott’s Creek, Chain Hills; Decem- 
ber, in flower, W. L. L. Leaf-petioles 2 in. long, or under. Leaf- 
lobes simple, with a tendency to fibrillose division at tips, 14 in. long, 
and yẹ in. broad. Glandular hairs of leaf mostly fringe its margins ; 
they are filiform and very long, sometimes $ in. in length. Scape 
5 in. high. Cyme 5-6-füowered. Sepals glabrous. All parts of 
flower dry to a deep black. 
Genus XI. SaALICORNIA. 
1. S. Indica, Willd. Sand-dunes on the Greenisland coast; No- 
* Vide author's Paper on “Otago Glumacew,” Trans. Botanical Society of 
Edinb., vol. ix. p. 74. 
