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specimens communicated by Mr. D. Petrie and Mr. G. M. Thomson, to 
whom I have great pleasure in expressing my thanks. 
The chief interest of the following list consists in the corrected views it 
affords of the relative proportion of Glumifere, especially of the cyperaceous 
section, to other phenogams in the south ; the Graminee are increased one- 
fourth and the Cyperacee nearly doubled as compared with Mr. Buchanan's 
Catalogue, in which the latter form less than one-twentieth of the entire 
number of flowering plants, a striking contrast to the ordinary proportion 
in the North Island which is one-tenth. The present list shows that the 
actual proportion in Otago is one-thirteenth, and that the small disparity 
which really exists is chiefly due to the deficiency in Cladium and Schenus, 
which, although abundant in the north, are represented in Otago by a single 
species of the former and two of the latter. On the other hand all the New 
Zealand Carices are found in Otago with the exception of C. chlorantha, Br., 
C. colensoi, Hook. f., and C. stellulata, Good. ; the last two will certainly be 
found within the distriet, but the first is restricted to the North Island 
where it is very local. 
I hope to consider the chief points of interest in the distribution of 
Otago plants in a future paper. 
It is a subject for regret that we know so little of the flora of Stewart 
Island and the Snares, which exhibit features of great importance. Little 
„as we know of both, the flora of Stewart Island shows a connection between 
the peculiar plants of the south-west coast of Otago on one side, and those 
of the Chatham Islands on the other—while that of the Snares shows 
a connection with the Auckland Islands and the Chathams, apparently 
more close than that with the nearest portion of the main land. I venture 
to suggest to the members of the Otago Institute the propriety of making 
arrangements for the systematic investigation of the flora and fauna of 
these little known portions of their district. 
RANUNCULACEE, 
Clematis hexasepala, DC. Bluff Harbour. 
afoliata, Buch. Waitaki Valley—J. Buchanan. 
Ranunculus hirtus—Banks and Sol. 
B. supinus. Valley of the Dart. 
ternatifolius, T. Kirk. R. trilobatus, ** Trans. N.Z.L," p. 547, 
not of Kit. Catlin River. 
nanus, Hook. Otago—J. Buchanan! D. Petrie! Above Lake 
Harris—T.K, 
