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Erodium moschatum. 
NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF 
OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 
Asperugo procumbens. 
Cynoglossum montanum. 
Lactuca scariola. M glaucum. 
Campanula Rapunculus C. botryoi 
Pyrola rotundifolia ee te Porllaidió: 
Veronica verna. Salix penta 
Linaria r Orchis fusca n 
Salvia pratensis Polao zosterifolius. 
Ajuga Chamsepitys P. heterop dii 
Symphytum tuberosum P. plantagine 
Anchusa semperv Polypodium Diyoglénis 
The following species are given without doubt by Watson, but I 
have not met with any of them in the county :— 
Sisymbrium Sophia R. incurvatus. 
Polygala calearea Potentilla argentea. 
Medieago faleata Carduus ui agr: 
Rubus Hy Ballota feet: 
R. rudis Polnegoton "Bliformis. 
Lost species :— 
Matthiola incana. mpetrum nigrum. 
Vicia Bithyni an autumnale. 
Sibthorpi Fritillaria Meleagris. 
Cyclamen hederifolium. Asplenium marinum. 
(To be continued.) 
NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 
By W. Lauper Linpsay, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.L.S. 
l. Genus DISCARIA. 
D. Toumatou, Raoul (D. australis, Hook.).—Uplands around Saddle- 
hill; Fingand, Lower Clutha; Balmoral Bush, Inch Clutha; on 
roadsides, Greenisland : October and November, young, W. 
It is generally as “ scrub,” or intermixed therewith, that it occurs on 
the hill-ranges. I never ‘a with it assuming the dimensions of a 
tree. It forms a dense scrub in the channels of the Matukituki, with 
an undergrowth of Aciphylia. Sullivan remarks on its on-occurrence 
in the west coast forests, a circumstance which he says, “ is undoubtedly 
owing to the woods having never been devastated by fire." Common 
in, and forming part of, the dense and impenetrable scrub "' on the 
. Tapanui ranges (Buchanan). Sometimes it furnishes the only fire- 
