Coitenso.—Deseription of new Plants. 829 
Polypodium grammitidis, Br. Nelson; Foxhill; Graham River. 
* pennigerum, Forst. Lowland localities, not uncommon. 
9 punctatum, Thunb. Nelson; Foxhill; Moutere; Graham River. 
” serpens, Forst. Nelson and coast to the north ; Lower Motueka. 
x cunninghamii, Hook. Maitai Valley. 
# pustulatum, Forst. Nelson; Lower Motueka ; Graham River. 
9 billardieri, Br. Abundant in lowland districts. 
Nothochlena distans, Br. Near Nelson. sali 
Todea hymenophylloides, Presl. Plentiful through thé Wistrict. 
» superba, Col. Takaka Valley, ascending to 8,500 feet ; Buller Valley. 
‘Near Reefton, Valley of the Inangahua, etc., not uncommon,” 
R. W. Raithby! 
Ophioglossum vulgatum, L. Maitai Valley; Wairau Valley ; Lake Rotoiti. 
Botrychium ternatum, Swz. Maitai Valley; near Foxhill ; Wairau Valley. 
LycopoDIAcEz. 
Lycopodium selago, L. Wairau Gorge; Hope Mountains, Buller Valley ; 
Mount Arthur plateau. 
Ys varium, Br. Wairau Valley ; Mount Arthur plateau. 
9 billardieri, Spring. Near Nelson. 
” clavatum, L., var. magellanicum. Abundant in subalpine localities. 
9 scariosum, Forst. Near Nelson; Dun Mountain range; Wairau 
Valley ; Buller Valley. 
» volubile, Forst. Abundant throughout the district. 
. RaizocaRPez. 
Azolla rubra, Br. Near Nelson; Motueka Valley; Wairau Valley. 
Isoetes alpinus, Kirk. Lake Rotoiti, abundant. 
Anr, KLVIL—A Description of a few new Plants from our New Zealand 
Forests. By W. Couenso, F.L.S. 
[Read before the Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, 14th November, 1881.] _ 
Class I, DicoTyLEDONS. 
Orver 1. RANUNCULACEA. 
Genus 1. Cxrematis, Linn. 
Clematis quadribracteolata, n.sp. 
Plant dicecious, small, very slender, trailing, extending only a few feet 
each way ; branches suleated, glabrous or with the young ones slightly and 
finely puberulent: leaves few, very minute, trifoliolate, on long petiolules 2-8 
lines long, mostly ovate-acuminate and broadly lanceolate, or spathulate, 
+1} lines long, and sometimes linear-lanceolate 8-5 lines long acute with 
* knobbed point, no lateral veins, only a mid-rib, with here and there a 
