Arbistrong. — On a natural Arrangement of Neiv Zealand Ferns. 359 



leaves are longer, narrower, and spreading, not appressed to the twig, but 

 connate at the base. 



Hab. — Near Dunedin. 



60. V. loganioides, Armstrong, " New Zealand Country Journal," Vol. III. 

 A small shrub, six inches high, decumbent and rooting at the joints. Bran- 

 ches hairy towards the tips. Leaves densely imbricated, appressed to the 

 branch with spreading tips, ovate, acuminate, glabrous except the ciliated 

 margins, usually entire, sometimes with 1-3 small teeth on each side, J inch 

 long, sessile, very sharply keeled below. Flowers in short few-flowered 

 racemes in pau's near the points of the branches. Peduncles hairy, short. 

 Bracts ^ inch long, ovate, acuminate. Pedicels hairy. Calyx-lobes lanceo- 

 late, acute, keeled, ciliated. Corolla white with pink stripes, very fugace- 

 ous ; tube jL- inch long ; lobes broadly ovate, obtuse ; limb -J- inch across. 

 Stamens as loug as the style. Anthers brown. Cajjsule not seen. 



Hab. — Kaugitata valley, Mr. J. F. Armstrong. Clyde valley. Air. W. 

 Gray, 5,000-6,000 feet. 



A most singular plant, quite different in appearance from any other 

 known Veronica. Until the fruit is obtained the position and relationship 

 cannot be determined. The corolla seems to approach that of V. linifolia, 

 but the aspect of the plant is more that of V. tetragona, though the leaves 

 are not connate at their bases. 



Art. XL VI. — A natural Arrangement of the New Zealand Ferns founded on 

 the System of Smith's " Historia Filicwn," icith critical Notes on certain 

 Species. By J. B. Armstrong. 

 [Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 2nd September, 1880.] 



[Extract.] 

 Critical Notes. 



Gymnogramma rutcefolia, Br. G. alpina, Potts, is certainly referable to 

 this species. Specimens collected on the Upper Eangitata and kindly given 

 to me by Mr. Potts, do not present any characters differing fi-om those of 

 G. rutcefolia sent from other parts of the colony. I have it from several 

 localities in Canterbury and Otago, but have seen no North Island speci- 

 mens. The New Zealand plant is, however, quite distinct from G. pozoi 

 with which it was united in the " Syn. Filicum." 



Lastrea invisa. The Nephrodium thelypteris var. squamulosum of the "Hand- 

 book " is undoubtedly the Aspidium invisum. of Forster, and the specific 



