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Hooker, and one of these being a new species of the genus Haastia, 

 he has paid me the compliment of calling by my name. Speaking of 

 it, he says : '' This last is a beautiful thing, of which I hope that 

 flowers may be found by future climbers." It grew in white velvet- 

 like bosses on the rocks facing the north, the barometer being at 

 23-90 when I gathered it on the southern spur, giving an elevation 

 on that day of 6500 feet. Above this there was no sign of vegetation, 

 except a little lichen, which extended to the very top stone of 

 Mount Cook. What struck me most about all this vegetation was that, 

 with the exception of a yellow ranunculus and a little violet tiage in 

 the flowers of veronica, all the flowers were white. The pmk of the 

 primula and the blue of the gentian, so familiar to my eyes, were 

 altogether absent. My companions and I had worked so harmoniously 

 together, that we did not break up our alpine camp without many 

 pangs of regret, that our days among the glorious scenery of the 

 Southern Alps had come to a close. Once more we had to return to 

 the haunts of men, and I cannot conclude this Paper without ex- 

 pressing our appreciation of the boundless hospitality with which we 

 were everywhere received by the hospitable people of New Zealand. 



Some Alpine Plants of Neio Zealand, Mount Cook District, collected in 

 Felr Mary and March, 1882. 



Name of Plant, and Authority. 



Eammeulus serieophyllus (Armstrong), 



Ligusticuni armnaticum (Hooker, fil.). 



Sector ella ccespitosa (Hooker, fil.), 



Baoulia grandiflora (Hooker, fil. and Armstrong), 



Saastia greenii (Hooker, Si..), 



Gnaphalkmi grandiceps (Armstrong), 



Gnaphalium bellidioides (Armstrong), 



Helophyllum colensoi (Hooker, fil.), 



Dracophylliim rosmarinifolium (dwarf) (Armstrong) 



Coprosma puniila, (dwarf) (Armstrong), . 



Euphrasia (?) 



Aelmersia sessiflora, ..... 



