538 Transactions.— Botany. 
mere cultural operations would have extended this paper to over-large 
dimensions. There are many plants that I might have referred to, but 
determined to only point out, to the pastoralist and others interested, those 
grasses that it will be well to bring into cultivation immediately. I might 
in passing, state, that the Sugar Beet, upon which, some years since, I 
wrote for the newspapers several articles, showing its advantages when 
grown for sugar-making and for other purposes, would be very useful if 
grown to feed and fatten cattle, pigs, etc., upon. 
From time to time I shall be happy to give results of my experience, as 
my acclimatization experiments upon all kinds of economie or useful plants, 
etc., are still going on ; and I am always trying the merits of new Grasses 
as well as other things sent me by my correspondents from all parts of the 
world. 
I would add that those plants and grasses I have recommended for 
summer culture are well adapted for cultivation in Auckland and the North, 
and those growing in winter are all suitable for Otago and the South ; but, 
for the places in this latitude, they are all adapted for summer and winter 
culture, and may with great advantage be introduced into the fields and 
. pastures whereon the cattle, sheep, and horses feed. 
Art. LXXVIII.— Notes on some Otago Plants. By G. M. Tuomson. 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 24th October, 1876.] 
Since the publication in Vol. I. of the “Trans. N.Z. Institute ” of Mr. 
Buchanan's excellent List of the Flowering Plants of Otago, no additions 
seem to have been made to our knowledge in this respect by local botanists. 
The following supplementary list of plants collected by Messrs. Petrie, 
Purdie, and myself, is intended as a small contribution in this direction. 
There is no doubt that if more information of this kind were obtainable it 
would be found that species hitherto considered to be very limited in their 
range would be found to be widely distributed. So much is this the case 
that Hooker’s Flora is found to be of no use as an authority on the distribu- 
tion of the species, most of those in the accompanying list being given as 
from the North Island only, and in some cases from only one locality. 
There are many agencies at work throughout the Colony, such as enclosing 
of land for grazing, burning, clearing of bush, ete., which greatly affect the 
indigenous flora. As instances of the above, and of the rapid appearance 
and disappearance of plants, the following facts are interesting. Three 
years ago Gentiana montana began to be noticed on the Town Belt of Dun- 
edin. In the summer before last it had increased to such an extent that 
