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nerved ; inner, linear, glabrous, tips lacerate and ciliate with white cottony 
tomentum ; outer, broadly oval, coloured with a carmine border round the 
green centre, and very cottony ; tips of corollas tinged with red ; receptacle 
concave, deeply and minutely punctured ; achene very small, linear, finely 
scaberulous, truncate at base with an acicular central point. 
Hab. With the preceding plant (Craspedia viscosa), 1879-1883: W.C. 
Obs.—I have long known this plant in its leafing state, and have often 
sought diligently for its flowers, but failed in securing perfect specimens 
until this year. In its general appearance at first sight it closely resembles 
G. filicaule. It grows very thickly and luxuriantly where undisturbed, but 
only produces very few heads of flowers. 
Orper L. BORAGINEZ. 
Genus 1. Myosotis, Linn. 
Myosotis pygmea, sp. nov. 
A very small strigose-hispid sparingly branched perennial (and annual) 
herb ; stems, 1-8, short, 2-11 inches long, prostrate, spreading from root; 
leaves few, radical petiolate, cauline sessile, obovate-spathulate, 4-inch long, 
very obtuse, thickish, mostly brownish-liver-coloured, strigose above with 
large rigid white hairs arising from muricated points, ciliated; the lower 
surface of radical leaves glabrous, green, midrib very stout ; flowers solitary, 
axillary, sessile, 2-8 only on a branch in the axils of upper leaves; calyx 
large, inflated, hispid and ciliate with long white hairs, lobes very long, 
acute, spreading, ciliate ; corolla pale yellow, tube cylindric, shorter than 
calyx, lobes rather large, rounded ; stamens included ; nut ovoid, convex on 
the one side and sub-carinated on the other with a slight compressed 
margin, turgid, obtuse, glabrous, shining, brown-black. 
Hab. On dry upland open heaths (with Viola perevigua, supra), between 
Matamau and Danneverke, Waipawa County, 1882-88: W.C. 
Obs.—T his little plant grows sparingly there, though from its small size 
and retiring habit it is easily overlooked; besides it is very early dried up 
and withered. I think I have also found it nearly 40 years ago, but only 
as an annual, growing on the pebbly beach, a little above high-water mark, 
between Napier and the mouth of the river Ngaruroro. It seems to be 
allied to M. antarctica, Hook. fil., but is distinct. 
Orper LV. LENTIBULARIEA. 
Genus 1. Utricularia, Linn. 
Utricularia subsimilis, sp. nov. 
A very small slender erect herb. Roots rather short, flat, white, semi- 
transparent, hair-like, with small scattered globular hyaline bladders, much 
fimbriated on the one side. Leaves few (2-8), basal, linear-spathulate, 
obtuse, 1-nerved, entire, 6-8 lines long; lamina short, about 1 line hroad, 
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