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housia minima (n.), Hawke Bay, Geum parviflorum, summit of Ruahine 
Range, east side, 5,000 feet altitude. Gunnera prorepens (n.), Flat Point, 
South-east Coast. *Meryta sinclairii (n.), Whangaruru Bay. *Angelica 
geniculata, Hawke Bay. Loranthus colensoi (n.), Waikere Lake. Coprosma 
repens (n.), between Mount Tongariro and Ruahine Range; and C. petiolata 
(n.), between Castle Point and Pahawa. Cotula perpusilla (n.), Turakirae, - 
Palliser Bay. Abrotanella pusilla (n.), near the top of Ruahine Range. 
Gnaphalium (Helichrysum) colensoi (n.), summit of Ruahine Range, east 
side. Forstera bidwillii, west side of Ruahine Range, 4,000 feet altitude. 
Helophyllum colensoi (n.), summit of Ruahine Range, 5,000 feet altitude. 
Myrsine nummularia (n.), west side of Ruahine Range, 4,500 feet altitude. 
*Logania depressa (n.), between Taupo and Ruahine. Calceolaria repens 
(n), west base of Ruahine. JErarrhena saxosa (n.), Hawke Bay.  Utricu- 
laria protrusa (n.), Bay of Plenty. Cassytha paniculata, near Mount Camel. 
Ascarina lucida (n.), three trees growing together in a swamp, at Wairarapa. 
Spiranthes australis, Upper Waikato. Adenochilus gracilis (n.), near Lake 
Waikare. Anthericum hookeri (n.), between Mount Tongariro and the 
west base of Ruahine. Hymenophyllum unilaterale (according to Dr. 
Hooker, but a sp. nov. mihi), on one tree only, but plentiful upon it, in 
the dense forest, west side of Ruahine Range, 3,000 feet altitude. Tricho- 
manes colensoi (n.), near Lake Waikare. Adiantum formosum, only in one 
spot in the dense forest between Wairarapa and Manawatu. Hypolepis 
millefolium (n.), near the top of Ruahine Range, east side. Asplenium 
trichomanes, Hawke Bay. Gymnogramme rutefolia, near Cape Palliser. 
Grammitis rufusvillosa (n.), three specimens only, growing together in the 
dense forest, east base of Tararua Range. Riccia natans, in the little lake 
Rotoakiwa, Hawke Bay; and Riccia fluitans, at the head of the Waira- 
rapa Valley. 
15. The North Island of New Zealand also contains several well-known 
European plants, which were found here by her earlier scientifie visitors 
(exclusive of the host of common plants which have come in with coloniza- 
tion) ; some of which, euriously enough, have not been found elsewhere 
in the Southern Hemisphere. Those European plants (several of which are 
cosmopolites) are of the following natural orders, viz.,—Crucifere, 3; 
Caryophyllez, 2; Malvaces, 1; Geraniacem, 2; Oxalidee, 1; Coriariem, 1; 
Rosacem, 2; Onagrarier, 1; Halorages, 1; Composite, 5; Solanem, 1; 
Chenopodiacer, 4; Naiadem, 3; Aroidem, 4; Juncew, 3; Cyperacer, 6; 
Graminex, 4; Filices, 7; and Lycopodiacee, 1;—total species, 57. It is 
worthy of remark that not-a single species is hard-wooded, scarcely even a 
* Of those marked with a star (*) before them, a "le plant only has been seen ; the 
letter n. after the name, denotes such to be a new species 
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