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ERRATA. 
The following species were admitted into the previous paper in error, 
and the names should therefore be deleted from the list. 
Cyathea Cunninghamii Hook. f. 
e plant from Cooper’s Knobs is no doubt Hemitelia. However, 
I have reintroduced the species for a plant from Peraki Reserve, on the 
e up of Dr. Holloway. This has the complete indusium of Cyathea. 
=R. M. L 
Festuca multinodis Petrie. 
o form of Festuca in this neighbourhood is anything like Petrie’s js 
plant, which is very distinct. Very few individuals of F. novae- и 
zelandiae have even three nodes.—A. W 
Scirpus antarcticus Linn. P1 
recorded in error for S. aucklandicus Boeck, by which it should ; 
be replaced. £ 
Carex flava Linn. var. cataractae R. Br. 
I have recorded this from Castle Rock; but I find on examining my 
herbarium again that there is possibly a mistake in the locality. The 
species should = be removed from the list, pending confirmation 
y.—R. M. L. 
of the locality.— 
Libertia grandiflora Sweet. 
This is probably only a form, though a distinct form, of L. 12100065. 
Plantago spathulata Hook. jd 
This ; 
18 18 an erroneous identification of P. Raoulii Decaisne. 
A Chemical Investigation of Pintsch Oil. 
By Н. J. Fay, M.Sc., Edmond Fellow of Otago University. 
[Read before the Otago Institute, 12th December, 1922; received by Editor, 814 
December, 1923 ; issued separately, 30th July, 1924.] 
mercially important product of this cracking is the illuminating-gas, the — 
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