KiEK. — On recent Additions to the New Zealand Flora. 88S 



The plant forms large matted patches on the ground. Stems 2" to 6" 

 long, branched, densely tufted and matted together. Leaves distant or close 

 set and imbricate, appressed, petiole membraneous, broadly sheathing, blade 

 expanded and deeply cut into from 5 to 7 subacute one-nerved segments, 

 less than J" long. 



My cursory examination of Professor Scott's specimens did not enable 

 me to detect flowers or fruit, but in "Flora Antarctica" the umbels are 

 described as terminal, 3-flowered. Calyx teeth acute. Fruit ovate, termin- 

 ated by elongated styles, mericarps convex on the back, contracted towards 

 the suture. 

 Pozoa reniforme, Hook. f. 



I found this species growing plentifully on a moraine close to the snow- 

 line in a deep valley of the Spenser Mountains, Amuri. Previously it was 

 only known from the Auckland Islands. 

 Cotula integrifolia, Hook. f. 



This plant is not uncommon in situations where water has stagnated but 

 which have become dry on the approach of summer. It varies greatly in 

 stature and luxuriance, but a complete series may be traced from minute, 

 one-flowered forms with entire leaves, the plant less than 1 inch in height, 

 to the most luxuriant form of C. coronopifolia. It can only be regarded as 

 a transitory state of that species and is unworthy to take rank even as a 

 trivial variety. 

 Mentha australis, Br. 



This species remarkable even amongst its congeners for its powerful 

 odour occurs in great abundance in the Wairarapa, especially at Carterton, 

 but I fear that it must be regarded as an introduced plant. I observed it 

 at intervals for three or four miles along the road, especially plentiful in 

 ditches but occurring also in the adjacent forest. 



It is an erect herb with pale green leaves and acutely angled stems ; the 

 flowers are produced in great abundance in axillary false whorls which may 

 be pedicellate or sessile ; the calyx is pubescent or hairy with long subulate 

 teeth, the corolla tube is small, scarcely exceeding the calyx in length, and 

 the mouth is deeply two-lobed. 



Our plant fills the ditches by the road- side, where it attains the height of 

 over 2 feet. In moist places in the forest it is much smaller. It is called 

 " turpentine " by the settlers. 

 Polygonum prostratum, E. Br. 



A much-branched prostrate suffruticose plant, the branches rooting from 

 beneath in the present specimen, 6"-10" high : the young branches and 

 leaves sparingly clothed with rather long white hairs. Leaves lanceolate, 

 narrowed into a shoi't petiole, 1" long, stipules sheathing, ciliate. Spikes 



