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Transactions. — Botany. 



Geamine^, 

 '■^- AntJioxanthum odoratum, L. 

 Hierochloe redolens, Br. 

 Agrostis cemula, Br. 



quadriseta, Br. 



conspicua, Forst. 

 Dichelachne crinita, Hook. f. 

 Danthonia semi-amiularis, Br. 



* Holcus vioUis, L. 



* Aira caryophyllea, L. 

 Poa breviglumis, Hook. f. 



* annua, L. 

 '-^'pratensis, L. 



anstralis, Br., var. IcEvis. 



colensoi, Hook. f. 



* Lolium, perenne, L. 



FiLICES. 



Gleichenia circinata, Swartz, /3. Jiecis- 



topliylla. 

 Hemitelia smithii, Hook. f. 

 Dicksonia squarrosa, Swartz. 



antarctica, Br., var. fibrosa 

 Hymenoijliyllum tunbridgense, Sm. 

 varum, Br. 

 dilatatum, Swartz. 

 2)olyanthos, Swartz, 

 var. sanguinolentum. 



FiLiCES. — continued. 

 Hymenophxjllum demissum, Swartz. 

 scabrum, A. Kicli. 

 flabeUatum, Labill, 

 Hypolepis tpnuifolia, Bernli. 

 Pieris aquilina L., var. esculenta. 

 scaberula, A. Rich. 

 incisa, Thunb. 

 Lomaria jyrocera, Spreng. 

 fiuviatilis, Spreng. 

 discolor, Willd. 

 alpina, Spreng. 

 dura, Moore. 

 banhsii. Hook f. 

 Asplenium obtusatum, Forst., var. lyallii. 

 falcatum, Lam. 

 bulbiferum, Forst. 

 flaccidum, Forst. 

 Aspidium aculeatum, Swartz, var. ves- 

 tituni. 



capeuse, Willd. 

 Nephrodium hispidum, Hook. 

 Polypodium rugulosum, Labill. 

 hillardieri, Br. 



Lycopodiace^. 

 Tmesipteris forsteri, Endl. 



Aht. LXI. — Contributions to the Botany of Otago. By T. Kirk, F.L.S. 



[Read before the Otago Institute, llth January, 1878.] 

 With the exception of three or four species mentioned to indicate an 

 extension of their range of distribution, the following plants hzjve not been 

 enumerated in any previous contribution to our knowledge of the flora of 

 Otago. ''' Most of them were observed during hasty visits to portions of the 

 district in the winter of 1874 and the summer of 1876-7, both under 

 circumstances which prevented my paying more than cursory attention to 

 purely botanical subjects. A few species are mentioned on the authority of 

 the " Handbook of the New Zealand Flora," and others on the authority of 



* For a Sketch of the Botany of Otago, by J. Buchanan, see Trans. N.Z. Inst., 

 I., p. 22. On Plants collected near Invercargill, by J. S. Webb, V., p. 360. Notes on 

 Otago Plants, by G. M. Thomson, IX., p. 638. 



See also Contributions to New Zealand Botany, by W. Lauder Lindsay, M.D., etc. ; 

 London, 1868. 



