NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 331 
vember, young, W. L. L. Resembles and represents our S. herbacea, L. 
than which it is a somewhat larger plant. Joints about 4 in. long, 
under $ in. broad; ee 2-lobed at tip. 
Genus XII. Acana 
Buchanan d fa a new species as occurring on the banks of the 
* Fi ,!p. Nf. 
+ Sketch of the Botany of Otago” [appended to the Survey-Report of the 
, Dunedi he 
n y Department, and subsequ odis Tonis sléschad r4 the 
Survey under Dr. Hector. 
This ‘Sketch’ or ‘Report’ was in MSS., was not published, though an 
official, and so fara public document ; and per rhaps was not drawn uP on aos 
to its author’s botanical acquirements, enthusiasm, and em vr 
and to the ingenuity of his views on un relations of plants to the soil on which 
they grow in Otago. But he appears to Mx accompanied the goes! ras y 
madam d that might iig sisted him in the determination of species ence 
he has s at might i i 
pes our attributing ridges value to, or bestowing ney veep nfidence in, 
is o It is but fair to the larar coe of an ex- 
cellent - > g 
and wh d services have been t De e riag by the at- 
that, so far as 
taching his name to not a few new species e to ean 
I am aware, his essay was the €— Bar abpsire m the of 
the ferred to; that it was not published; and that un ‘under the whole 
circumstances of its produ ction = is not fairly open rdinary scientific 
iti ** Florula." 
'The kind of errors into which odis has fallen in the “ genet " owe 
alluded to, mex be illustrated by the following citations :—He m a 
Jacksonia vts . Leguminose) ; an'Orchis; species of Aster, ihe cast 
Hiera Leoni i Sedum, ee as occurrin; in O ; whereas the 
odon. j : g in 
prar book of the Flora of New Zealand’ records none of these genera as being 
e nmt at allin New Zealand! He also speaks of Laurels (N. O. Laurinee) 
as growing in the bush o i de Clutha Islets, and in — arts of the South- 
tern distri ta: hailing to the ‘ Handbook,’ how aes 238), the d 
representatives of the Order in New Zealand are the genera Tet — nthera, Nes 
errors dn ecesss RUNS dis 
by other local bota Thus Martin describes Knightia excelsa, Br. ‘NO. O: 
Proteaceæ), the apando " of Wellington—the “ Rewa-rewa” of the 
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