336 STJPPLEMENTUM FLOILE NOY^-ZELANDIJi. 



(Page 220.) Pimelea, Banks et Sol. 



This genus has been dismembered by Ernest Meyer, who founds genera on the corolla being articulate or non- 

 articulate, the perianth of the fruit fleshy or dry, aud the quantity of albumen in the seed. 



(Page 223.) Drapetes muscosa, Hook. fil. 



This specific name was inadvertently misapplied, it being that of the Antarctic American species. I have al- 

 ready (Introd. Essay, p. 34, in note) proposed that of I). Lyall'd for this plant. 



(Page 236.) Potamogeton ocreatus, B/aoul. 



I have received specimens of this plant from Sinclair and Colenso, which, though not very complete, enable me 

 to refer it, without much doubt, to P. compressus, L. (ex Fries, Novit.), having compared it with an authentically 

 named specimen from Fries. 



3. Potamogeton peetinatus, L. ; gracilis, foliis anguste linearibus subacutis 1-nerviis venulis transversis 

 subremotis, stipulis vaginse adnatis scariosis longe pedunculatis, spicis fructiferis interruptis, uuculis com- 

 pressis oblique obovatis. — Linn. Sp. PI. Brit. Fl. 



Hab. Northern Island ; brackish, water, common on the east coast, Colenso. 



Stems slender, varying in length with the depth of water, matted, floating. Leaves 2-4 inches long, scarcely a 

 line broad, with one central nerve, and transverse veinlets leaving square areolae. 



(Page 239.) Eariria mucronata, Lindl.: add Rook. Ic. Plant, t. 431, excluding synonyms. 



(Page 243.) Thelymitra, Forst. 



Dr. Sinclair finds the same difficulty in distinguishing the forms or species of this pretty genus, as I do. 



(Page 247.) Caladenia Lyallii, Hook. fil. : add — 



Hab. Gordon's Nob, Nelson, Monro. 



Caladenia hifolia, Hook. fil. 



Hab. Northern Island : Buahine Mountains, Colenso. 

 Specimen in fruit, but apparently the same as the Otago plant. 

 (Page 255.) Chrysobactron Eossii, Hook, fil., Fl. Antarct.p. 72. t. 44, 45. 



I have seen two specimens of this plant (a native of Auckland and Campbell Islands), communicated by Colonel 

 Bolton, R.E., who assures me that they were gathered at Otago, in the Middle Island, by Sir G. Grey. 



(Page 256.) Phormium tenax, Forst. 



I have received a great many more specimens of forms intermediate between vars. a and (3, since the publica- 

 tion of this plant in the body of this work. 



(Page 288.) Nat. Ord. Gkaminejg. 



Since the Grasses were elaborated for the New Zealand Flora, I have received a general monograph of the 

 Order, by Steudel, of Eslingen, entitled 'Synopsis Glumacearum.' I find about thirty New Zealand species there 

 enumerated, including the imperfectly described ones of Eichard, etc., and amongst them are some new genera of 

 Steudel's, which, from the descriptions, I am quite unable to recognize. It appears to me, from what I can gather, 

 that some of the species are not referred to the genera or tribes in which I (in common with all other botanists 

 who have studied the Order) have placed them ; others, and several of the genera, are founded upon very imperfect 

 specimens, and in no case does the author give the particular habitat or collector's name. 



(Page 291.) After Paspalum, insert — 



Panicum tenax, Trin., Diss. 11. p. 122, et Steudel, Synops. Glum. p. 27. 

 ' I am not acquainted with this Grass. 



