210 T'ransactions.— Botany. 
Ptilota Caulerpa 
Jformosissima, Mont. Jurcifolia, J. H. and Harv. 
Pandorea Codium 
travers, J. Ag., п. g. tomentosum, Ag. 
Griffithsia adherens, Ag. 
sonderiana, J. Ag., n. sp. Bryopsis 
antarctica, J. H. and Harv. prolifica, J. Ag. 
gracilis, Harv. E 
Or an allied species in a sterile state. rigida, Ag. 
Ballia 
brunonis, Harv. 
scoparia, Harv. 
Авт. XXXVIIIL —4.Votes on the Flora of the Province of Wellington, with 
a List of Plants collected therein. By Јонх Bucnaxax, of the Geological 
Survey of New Zealand. 
[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 16th January, 1874.] 
THE following list of plants has been determined from specimens chiefly 
collected in the southern portion of the Province of Wellington. The district 
now under notice may be defined as south of a line drawn between the 
Wanganui River on the west and Castle Point on the east. The surface 
features of this area will be found to present two main lines of watershed with 
a north and south axis, the altitudes ranging up to 5,000 feet. "The relative 
area of bush and open land are, according to Mr. J. T. Stewart, nearly equal,* 
the bush being more confined to the western range, while the great central river 
basin and hills of the eastern range are comparatively open land, and covered 
by a vegetation of fern, grass, and low-growing plants, little having as yet 
been done to improve upon the primitive condition of the country, except 
partial clearing by fire. 
The river basins of this district are well adapted for agriculture ; the 
inorganic matter from the wear of rocks, brought down by the streams from 
mountain ranges of a varied geology, with the added organic matter of a 
luxuriant natural vegetation—the accumulation of ages—-present all the 
elements of a fertile soil The extension of pasture is the main object at 
present in clearing land, but where bush is cleared for this purpose the rough 
and slovenly method usually adopted does not produce a first-class pasture, 
although bush soil is capable of growing excellent crops of either roots or 
cereals. 
On the extensive hill lands of the eastern division of the district, however, 
* Trans. N.Z, Inst., Vol. IL, Art. XLVIIL, “Оп the River System of the South 
Portion of the Province of Wellington," by J. T. Stewart. 
