452 DICOTYLEDONS AND CONIFERS 



up through the tangle of blackberries to a height of five or six feet, 

 but bore abundance of excellent firm tubers. 



In Europe the flowers of this species are visited by Apis mellifica, 

 Bombus hortorum, B. lapidarius, B. terrestris and Eristalis tenax 1 . 



Atropa belladonna, Linn. Deadly Nightshade 

 Recorded by W. W. Smith in 1903 as naturalised in the County 

 of Ashburton, but as dying out. 



Capsicum annuum, Chili 



Recorded by Kirk in 1869 in his naturalised plants of the Auckland 

 district, but it practically never spreads out of cultivation in New 

 Zealand. Polack records it as cultivated by the Europeans in 1831. 



Physalis alkekengi, Linn. Winter-cherry 



Also recorded by Kirk in 1869 from the Auckland district. Only 

 occurs as a rare garden escape, and does not appear to have established 

 itself anywhere as a naturalised plant. 



Physalis peruviana, Linn. Cape Gooseberry ; Tipari 

 Probably introduced very much earlier, but recorded first as a 

 naturalised plant by Hooker in 1864; again by Kirk in the Auckland 

 district in 1869 and from Wellington in 1877. Cheeseman says in 

 1882: "warm sheltered localities throughout the district, but not so 

 common now as fifteen or twenty years back." In the Manual (1906) 

 it is recorded as an escape from cultivation in the North Island only, 

 but it occurs as far south as Moeraki in Otago, where it grew in 

 sheltered localities quite freely a few years ago. 



Polack (1831-37) mentions it as in cultivation in European gardens 

 in the north of the North Island. 



Nicandra physaloides, Gsertn. 



First recorded from Ashburton district in 1903 by W. W. Smith. 

 In the Manual (1906) it is stated to occur very rarely in waste places 

 in the vicinity of Auckland. 



Lycium chinense, Mill. 



First recorded in Hooker's list in 1864, and again by Kirk in 

 1869 as occurring in the Auckland provincial district; both as L. bar- 



1 In 1868 Kirk recorded the occurrence of Solatium virginianum at Mongonui. 

 I do not know what species he refers to. On submitting my doubt to Mr Cheeseman 

 he writes (Sept. 1916): "I have no idea what plant Kirk had in mind, but it was 

 not 5. virginianum." 



In 1869 he recorded S. indicum, Linn., from Auckland, and in 1877 the same 

 species from Wellington. Cheeseman writes : " I think this was a mistake of Kirk's 

 for S. mammosum of later lists." 



