xxviii Appendix. 
An Enumeration of recent Additions to the New Zealand Flora, with Critical 
and Geographical Notes. By T. Kırg, F.L.S. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 2nd February, 1878.) 
Parr I.—Ranuneulaces to Marsileaces. 
Stxcz the publication of the ** Handbook of the New Zealand Flora" in 1867, 
numerous plants new to science have been discovered in the colony, and 
described from time to time in the ** Transactions of the New Zealand Insti- 
tute" and other scientific works. It was also found that the specific 
limitations of a few species were too comprehensive, so that it became 
necessary to separate distinct plants which had been included under one 
name. Further additions have resulted from the discovery of well-known 
species not previously observed in the colony. The descriptions of these 
additions being scattered through numerous volumes, has caused great 
inconvenience to those botanists to whom the different works are not 
available for reference, so that, pending the publication of a new edition of 
the Handbook, I have prepared the following list, with the view of obviating 
this inconvenience to a limited extent. It embraces all published additions 
of the slightest importance, so far as known to me, and I have given the 
fullest account of their geographical distribution ; but, except in one or 
two special instances, I have not recorded mere alteration of names. 
It is worthy of note that the additional genera not recorded in the 
Handbook as represented in New Zealand are but four in number : Anguil- 
laria, Sporadanthus, Isoétes, and Pilularia. Sporadanthus is the only genus 
new to science. <Anguillaria belongs to Melanthacesm, an order (or rather 
sub-order of Liliacez), not previously represented in our Flora. A similar 
remark applies to Isoëtes. 
The mosses and lower cryptogams will be enumerated in a future list. 
BANUNCULACEX. 
Clematis afoliata, Buchanan; Trans. N.Z. Inst., III., p. 211. 
A singular plant, at a distance presenting a close resemblance to Car- 
michelia, or the leafless form of Rubus australis. The young state is 
North Island—Originally discovered by Mr. Colenso, but Iam ignorant 
of the precise locality. South Island— Marlborough; near the site of the 
Wai-an-na Bridge, Canterbury ; Canterbury Plains ; Waitaki, Otago. 
