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nerved ; inner, linear, glabrous, tips Lacerate and ciliate with white cottony 

 tomentuni ; outer, broadly oval, coloured with a carmine border round the 

 green centre, and very cottony ; tips of corollas tinged with red ; receptacle 

 concave, deeply and minutely punctured ; achene very small, linear, finely 

 scaberulous, truncate at base with an acicular central point. 



Hab. With the preceding plant (Craspedia viscosa), 1879-1883 : W.C. 



Obs. — I have long known this plant in its leafing state, and bave often 

 sought diligently for its flowers, but failed in securing perfect specimens 

 until this year. In its general appearance at first sight it closely resembles 

 G.filicaule. It grows very thickly and luxuriantly where undisturbed, but 

 only produces very few heads of flowers. 



Order L. BOKAGINE.E. 

 Genus 1. Myosotis, Linn. 

 Mijosotis pygmcea, sp. nov. 



A very small strigose-hispid sparingly branched perennial (and annual) 

 herb ; stems, 1-3, short, f-lj inches long, prostrate, spreading from root ; 

 leaves few, radical petiolate, cauline sessile, obovate-spathulate, ^-inch long, 

 very obtuse, tbickish, mostly brownish diver-coloured, strigose above with 

 large rigid white hairs arising from muricated points, ciliated ; the lower 

 surface of radical leaves glabrous, green, midrib very stout ; flowers solitary, 

 axillary, sessile, 2-3 only on a branch in the axils of upper leaves ; calyx 

 large, inflated, hispid and ciliate with long white hairs, lobes very long, 

 acute, spreading, ciliate ; corolla pale yellow, tube cylindric, shorter than 

 calyx, lobes rather large, rounded ; stamens included ; nut ovoid, convex on 

 the one side and sub-carinated on the other with a slight compressed 

 margin, turgid, obtuse, glabrous, shining, brown-black. 



Hab. On dry upland open heaths (with Viola perexigua, supra), between 

 Matamau and Danneverke, Waipawa County, 1882-83 : W.C. 



. Obs. — This little plant grows sparingly there, though from its small size 

 and retiring habit it is easily overlooked ; besides it is very early dried up 

 and withered. I think I have also found it nearly 40 years ago, but only 

 as an annual, growing on the pebbly beach, a little above high-water mark, 

 between Napier and the mouth of the river Ngaruroro. It seems to be 

 allied to M. antarctica, Hook, fil., but is distinct. 



Order LV. LENTIBULAKIE.E. 

 Genus 1. Utricularia, Linn. 

 Utricularia subsimilis, sp. nov. 



A very small slender erect herb. Roots rather short, flat, white, semi- 

 transparent, hair-like, with small scattered globular byaline bladders, much 

 fimbriated on the one side. Leaves few (2-3), basal, linear-spathulato, 

 obtuse, 1-nerved, entire, 6-8 lines long ; lamina short, about 1 line broad, 



