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nearly all the other small and few scattered trees* of the " Island," merely 

 for the small poles, etc., for rude fencing and for tents. To some of 

 those trees 0^g?ao=Myoponim Icetum) that grew, picturesqviely fringing and 

 overhanging the sea (of the inner harbom-) at high water, I have known 

 the Natives frequently to make fast their canoes, and, in the summer 

 season, to bivouac under their shade. No Maori of the olden time would 

 have cut down one of those ancient and useful trees ! and, when the whites 

 did so, they complained bitterly against it. 



14. Gymnogramme leptophylla. — This sweet little annual fern still grows 

 here in a few undisturbed spots on the hill-side, where, every spring, I have 

 the pleasure of noticing and welcoming it. I first detected this fern 

 in 1842, growing in sheltered grassy spots among scoria on the dry hills at 

 the head of Manukau Bay, near Auckland, which is the only other locality 

 of its habitat known to me in New Zealand.! Believing it to be a new 

 species, I published it as G. novcB-zealandice,\ but, according to Dr. Hooker, 

 it is identical with a British (Jersey) species, which is also found in Austra- 

 lia and Tasmania. Nevertheless there are (as I view it) striking differences 

 between our New Zealand plant and the British one, judging from the ample 

 descriptions, and also the many botanical plates in my possession of that 

 species. 



15. BotrycMum cicutarium. — Fine plants of this species of fern I for- 

 merly found here on the hills, but I have not noticed any for fifteen years. 



Addendum. 

 I WKiTE this (the fruit of study and research), for the especial benefit of 

 future New Zealand Pteridologists. 



Gymnogramme lej^tophylla. Having the good fortune to possess several 

 drawings and dissections of the European plant, G. leptopliilla, with ample 

 descriptions, (viz., in Hook and Greville, Ic. Filicum ; Hook, British Ferns, 

 Species Filicum, etc. ; T. Moore, Index Filicum ; Bentham's Brit, Flora ; 

 Beddome's Ferns, South India ; with others by S. Hibberd, T. Moore, J. 

 Smith, J. G. Baker, etc.) and having also received since writing the fore- 

 going paper, some British specimens of G. leptophyilla from Jersey, — I am 

 inclined to say a little more about our New Zealand plant bearing that 

 name, and to point out wherein it differs from the British and European 

 one. 



* As Entelea arborescens, Gopro^ma bauriana, Ilyoporum Icetuvi, and Cordyline 

 australis. 



t During this year (1880) it has also been found, by a member of our Institute, grow 

 ing inland, west from Hawke's Bay, on the hills near the Eiver Mohaka. 



I In "Tasmanian Journal of Natural Science," Vol. 11., p. 165, I find that Sir J. 

 Hooker, in his description of this fern in Ms "Handbook of the N.Z, Flora," p. 383, has 

 quoted me as having published it as a Grammittis. This, however, is an error. 



