400 Transactions.— Botany. 
The following is the synonomy of each so far as known to me :— 
Nephrodium decompositum. 
Hooker fil., Fl. Tasmanie, IL, p. 149; Brown, Prodromus Nov. Holl, p. 149; 
Baker, Synopsis Filieum, p. 281; Hook. f, Handbook N.Z. Fl., p. 378. 
N. decompositum, a. glabellum, Hook. fil,. Fl. Nov. Zel., IL, p. 39, t. 79 (not of 
Cunningham). 
N. decompositum, a. macrophyllum, Hook., Sp. Filicum, IV., p. 146. 
N. pentangularum, Colenso, Filices Nove Novs-Zelandise, p. 9 (1845). 
Aspidium decompositum, Spreng., Syst. Veg., IV., p. 109; Mueller, Fragmenta 
hytographie Australie, V., p. 136 
Aspidium microsorum, Endl., Flora Norfolk Island, p. 9. 
A. shepherdi, Kunze, Linnea, XXIII., p. 259. 
A. acuminata, Lowe, Filices, p.—. t. 11. 
Hab. New Zealand, common on the banks of rivers. 
Australia, Tasmania, Norfolk Island. 
Nephrodium glabellum. 
A. Cunningham, Comp. Bot. Mag., IL, p. 367; Metten. Aspid., p. 69. 
Nephrodium decompositum, (3. pubescens, Hook. f., Fl. Nov. Zel, IL., p. 39. 
N. decompositum, (3. microphyllum, Hook., Sp. Filicum, IV., 146. 
Lastrea davalloides, Brack., Filices U.S. Exploring Expedition, p. 202. 
Hab. New Zealand, common in forests. 
Australia, Tahiti, Fiji Islands. 
Art. LX.—On the Botany of the Bluff Hill. By T. Ker, F.L.S. 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 17th January, 1878.] 
Tux isolated hill which guards the entrance to the Bluff Harbour has long 
been supposed to exhibit features of special interest to the botanist, but no 
one has even imagined that it possessed a rich or varied flora. It was 
therefore with no little surprise that I found it vying with the North Cape 
in botanical riches, which, although of a less showy character, were not 
less attractive. 
My examination of the locality was restricted to some portion of the 
forest beyond the pilot station, and to parts of the hill within reach during 
a rambling ascent from the town to the flagstaff. 
The Bluff Hill is a little under 900 feet in height, and rather less than 
two miles in diameter at its greatest width ; its base is washed by the sea, 
except on the side which connects it with the promontory of which it forms 
the termination. It consists chiefly of syenite and clay-slates, the latter 
in many cases nearly vertical, The hollows and sides of the watercourses 
