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Allied to H. hectori, Hook., f., but differs in the peculiar leaves, larger 
flower heads, and faintly grooved achenes, which are never silky. 
I have dedicated this interesting plant to its discoverer, to whom I am 
indebted for much valuable information on the botany of Otago. 
Erechtites glabrescens, n. s. 
Stem 1-8 feet high, soft, furrowed, simple or sparingly branched. Leaves 
3-6 inches long, 1-2 inches broad, oblong, or lanceolate oblong, more or 
less pinnatifid, lobed and toothed, with sinuate dentate margins, sessile, 
with large toothed auricles at the base, glabrous, or with a few scattered 
cottony hairs, often purple beneath, extremely membranous when dry. 
Heads numerous, laxly corymbose ; involueral scales, narrow, with scarious 
margins. Achenes faintly grooved, pappus scabrid. 
Hab.: South Island: Roto-iti, Wairau Valley, T.K.; Wairau Valley, 
Nelson, W. T. L. Travers; Lake Hawea; Valley of the Dart, Otago, T.K. ; 
Stewart Island, G. M. Thompson. 
Originally discovered by Mr. W. T. L. Travers. 
CHENOPODIACER. 
Chenopodium detestans, n. s. 
A much-branched, prostrate or decumbent herb; stem and branches 
sometimes 2 feet long, wiry, terete ; whole plant glandular. Leaves i-i 
inch long, petioled, rhomboid, or rhomboid-hastate, or ovate, acute, entire, 
or with a tooth on each side. Spikes short, glomerate, axillary, leafy. 
Perianth 4-5 partite. Stamens 4. Seed horizontal, minutely punctate. 
Hab.: South Island: Between Lake Lyndon and Lake Pearson, Can- 
terbury. Outlet of Lake Hawea, Otago. 
Originally discovered by Mr. J. D. Enys, who informs me that he has 
seen it in several localities in Canterbury. 
The whole plant emits a pungent and highly offensive odour, resembling 
that of decaying fish. It is the « Fish-guts plant ” of the shepherds. 
JUNCER, 
Juncus involucratus, n. s. 
Culms erect, 1-14 inches high, leafy at the base, striated, pith jointed. 
Leaves grassy, narrow, flat, sheathing at the base, finely striate, sheaths 
with a narrow membranous margin. Panicle terminal, surrounded by the 
long involueral leaves, effuse or close, pale, branches short, involucral leaves 
9-6, slender, drooping. Flowers 2 or 3-fascicled, rarely solitary. Perianth 
segments lanceolate, acuminate, or apiculate, with membranous margins, 
strongly nerved. Stamens 8. Capsule (immature) shorter than the 
perianth, ovoid, prismatic. 
Hab.: South Island: Amuri; 8,000 feet. Easily distinguished from 
all other New Zealand species by its long involucral leaves. 
Allied to J. planifolius, Hook., f., and J. bufonius, L. 
