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Transactions. — Botany. 



Lolium — continued. 



arvense, L., v., 4 



miiltifioi'um, Lam., v., 4 



italicum, L., v., 4 

 Triticum 



repens, L., v., etc., 4 



Horcleum 



murinum, L., v., 6 

 sativum, L., a., 2 

 maritimum, L., v., 4 

 distichum, L., v., 1 



Art. — XLIX. — On some New Species of New Zealand Plants. 

 By John F. Armstrong. 



[Eead hefore the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 4:th October, 1871.] 



Aciphylla montana, Armstrong, n. s. 



Small, 8-10 inches high, smooth and shining. Radical leaves numerous, 

 spreading, 4-5 inches long, pinnate. Leaflets jointed, 2-3 inches long, ^-^ 

 broad, linear or sword-shaped, pungent, striate, midrib rather obscure ; sheath 

 1-1 1^ inches long, \-^ inch broad, with one small subulate leaflet on top 

 of each side. Flowering stem about 8 inches high, as thick as a goose quill, 

 deeply grooved, shining, with one leaf about halfway up ; umbels few, fas- 

 cicled, in a contracted panicle 2 inches long ; peduncles very short ; bracts 

 numerous, 1-2 J inches long, with one to three spreading leaflets, and two 

 small siibulate ones at the top of the sheath. Fruit small, about ^ of an inch 

 long, closely packed on very short pedicels ; carpels with five rather narrow 

 wings. Flowers not seen. 



Hab. — On rocky ledges 4,000 feet altitude, Eangitata District, 1869; 

 Collected by W. Gray and John F. Armstrong. 



A curious little species approaching some states of A. Monroi, Hook, f., 

 but su£S.ciently distinct in the fascicled umbels and very large bracts. 



Senecio Fottsii, Armstrong, n. s. 



A small sufii'uticose, decumbent, very slender species ; branches ascending 

 3-6 inches long, flexuose, grooved, covered with white loose cottony 

 tomentum. Leaves petioled, alternate, ovate or spathulate, |-1 inch long, 

 crenate, glabrous above or nearly so ; covered below with appressed cottony 

 tomentum. The veins almost parallel with the midrib ; head solitary, on 

 slender bracteate peduncles, turbinate |- inch long; involucral scales 15-20, 

 linear spreading, obtuse, cottony. 



Hab. — Mount JoUie, Eangitata District, altitude 4,500 feet, W. Gray 

 and John F. Armstrong. 



My specimens are very imperfect, but the species seems very distinct 

 from any other New Zealand one, differing chiefly in the suffruticose habit 



