438 Transactions. 
The Vegetation of Banks Peninsula: Supplement 1. 
By RosERT M. Larne, M.A., B.Sc., F.N.Z.Inst., and A. Warr, M.A.. 
Professor of English, Canterbury College, Christchurch. 
[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 7th November, 1923 ; received by 
Editor, 16th November, 1923 ; issued separately, 30th July, 1924.] 
(2) a list of such plants (about thirty) as have been found for the first time 
on Banks Peninsula since the original paper was published, together with 
by other observers since the original aper was written. Few dicotyledons 
have been added, showing that the original list of these was nearly complete. 
The abbreviations of collectors’ names is as before :— 
A. W. ... Professor A. Wall. 
.. Mr. William Martin. 
Mr ing 
. R. M. Laing. 
Dr. L. Cockayne, F.R.S. 
1. THE FOREST, PRICE’S VALLEY. 
Opportunity has been found of examining more closely than heretofore 
the vegetation of this valley. We are thus enabled to form a better picture 
insula 
this would separate it probably from all other forest areas of New Zealand, 
the description would be of little value to the botanist, as Olearia fragrant- 
1$8)^a 18 à тате and disappearing species. Опе might rely, however, on 
other Species for a separation. It is doubtful, for example, whether the 
following species could be found commonly together elsewhere—Nothopanaz 
nomalum, Teucridium parviflorum, Pseudopanaz feror—as they can be in 
the district between Gebbie's Pass and Little River. Again, Banks Pen- 
insula might be defined as being characterized by the presence of certain 
northern species and the absence of others. Thus the following species 
might be expected to occur and do not: Cordyline Banksii, Melicope 
* Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 51, p. 355, 1919. 
