COMPOSITE 439 



cross-fertilisation has taken place." Both species are extremely abun- 

 dant in waste ground in all parts of the country at the present day. 

 They were largely used by the natives as a food plant. (FL, all the 

 year round.) 



Hieraceum aurantiacum, Linn. Orange Hawkweed 

 Reported in 1911 by the Agricultural Department as occurring 

 at -the Waiau 1 . 



Stylidium graminifolium, Swartz. 



A solitary specimen of this species was picked up on clay hills 

 near Auckland by Colonel Bolton in 1861, and accordingly it was 

 placed among indigenous species in Hooker's Handbook to the New 

 Zealand Flora. But the plant has not been collected since. 



CAMPANULACE^) 

 Campanula Trachelium y Linn. Nettle-leaved Campanula 



First recorded by Kirk in 1877 as a garden escape from Ohariu, 

 Wellington district. 



Campanula hybrida, Linn. 



Recorded by W. W. Smith in 1903 as occurring in Ashburton 

 County. 



Jasione montana, Linn. Sheep's-bit 



Recorded by Cheeseman in 1912, on the authority of H. Guthrie 

 Smith, from Tutira Run, near the source of the Mohaka River, 

 Hawke's Bay. 



Specularia hybrida, A.DC. 



Recorded as occurring in cultivated fields at Ashburton by W. W. 

 Smith. 



Sub-division HYPOGYN^E 



EPACRIDEvE 

 Epacris purpurascens, R. Br. 



First discovered in the fifties by Dr Sinclair and General Bolton 

 at Manurewa near Manukau Harbour; again recorded in 1869 by 

 Kirk, and in 1881 by A. T. Urquhart. According to Cheeseman 

 (1906) it occurs in the open country at the head of the Manukau 

 Harbour, near Papakura and Drury. 



1 In 1879 Armstrong reported Lobelia erinus from Canterbury. This common 

 garden species does not seem to occur even as an escape. 



