NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 199 
ledge of their limitations or variations cannot yet be said to be satis- 
factory or complete. : 
C. flagelliformis, Col. Roadsides, and in Abbott’s Creek, Green- 
island: November, in flower: in the scrub about Finegand, Lower 
lutha: December, in fine flower, W. L. L. With other species, 
known to the settlers as “ Native Broom.” A shrub a few feet high, 
in all cases in which I met with it; varying, however, in size, succu- 
lence, foliage, and flowering according to the character of its habitat. 
ed by Dr. Hooker, in my herbarium, C. juncea ; but has the cha- 
racters rather of C. flagelliformis, to which apparently he refers it in 
the Handb. (p. 50). A large shrub, the size of our Broom; leafless ; 
one specimen in flower. Much branched ; older branches short, woody, 
about 1 inch in diameter; frequently as if abruptly cut off, terminating 
in obtuse points. Younger branchlets terminate in filiform shoots ; 
and sometimes retain their greenness in drying, though sometimes also 
all the branches acquire a brown hue, even in the growing state ; the 
larger branches are frequently brown; main branches cracked or 
grooved, smaller ones generally deeply and irregularly grooved ; all 
the branches terete, stout, fibrous; tips of branchlets pubescent, as are 
also the racemes and calyces. Racemes frequently 3-flowered. Flower- 
pedicels about 4-2 inch long, always longer than calyx, sometimes 
twice as long, very silky-pubescent, with greyish-white appressed hairs. 
3. Genus LINUM. — 
L. monogynum, Forst. Along the edge of the Bush, on a shingly 
beach, Willshire’s Bay, mouth of the Clutha ; on the cliffs, Shaw’s Bay, 
The Nuggets, 8-12 inches high: December, in flower; W. L. L. The 
“Native Flax” of the settler; the “ Rauhuia " (Colenso); “ Kaho” 
(Cunningham), or “ Wao” (D’Urville) of the North Island Maori. 
Some of its forms resemble our common ZL. usitatissimum, Le At 
the New Zealand Exhibition of 1865, Mr. Smith, of Napier (Hawke’s 
Bay), showed specimens of what he termed Z. perenne, L., which was 
said to grow wild in that province :* and he also exhibited some of its 
roughly scutched fibre, which resembles the lower kinds of Baltic 
lax. It may thus prove that there is more than one New Zealand 
species of Linum. - 
. My plant appears to be var. grandiflorum of the Handb. 35. I 
| + Jurors’ Reports, p. 122. 
