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4to, with 130 plate 
. Hooker, J. D. Rides of the New Zealand Flora. London, 1864. 
8vo. pp. 798 
H. E. S. E Ferns which grow in New Zealand and the Adjacent 
Islands, plainly described. Auckland, N.Z., 1875. 
Buchanan, J. The Indigenous Grasses of New i tak Wellington, 
1880. Folio, sixty-four plates with denociptive letterpres 
Buchanan, J. Manual of the Indigenous Grasses of Ys Zealand. 
Wellington, ']8B80. An octavo edition of the preceding. 
Petrie, D. A visit to Stewart Island, with Notes on its. Flora. 
Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, xiii., 1880, pp. 323-332. 
Kirk, T. On the Flowering Plants of Siora Island: Transactions 
of the New Zealand Institute, xvii, 1884, pp. 213—228. 
Kirk, T. On the Ferns of Stewart Isand. Loe. cit. pp. 228-334. - 
The etd Flora of New Zealand. Wellington, 1889. 
Kirk, 
. Folio. pp. 345, tt. 
. Since the pecia of the * Handbook of the New Zealand Flora" 
a number of distinct new species have been discovered and described, 
chiefly in the * Transaetions and Proceedings of the New Zealan id 
Institute" Many very slight variations from the established species 
have also been described as species. 
The native vegetation is abundant and often — dece yet it is com- 
posed of a comparatively small number of species ; less than a thousand 
species of flowering plants being recorded. a contrast to this it may 
be mentioned that the Flora of Japan (a country occupying a situation 
in the nerthern hemisphere similar to that of New Zealand in the 
southern) comprises considerably more genera than there are species in 
New Zealand, and about three times as many species, 
The forests of New Zealand consist to a great extent of various kinds 
. of Beech (Fagus) and Pine (Podocarpus, Dacr ae um, &c.); and the 
herbaceous aan contains a large number of ende aie ecies of 
such common Euro enera as Ranunculus, Epilobium, and Veronta 
Fuchsia and Calceolaria, otherwise restricted to America, are represented 
by two or three species each. The Leguminose are very few and 
. peeulia Various C ates a laurel, one or two Proteaces, and 
Atherosperma novezelandie@ are mos the best timber trees. Many 
English weeds have become very c 
Ferns are very numerous and varie; ad include eight or ten arboreous 
species. 
KERMADEC Isranps.—A chain of widely separated islands, "RS 
and 600 miles to the north-east of New Zealand, situated betw 
29° and 32? S. lat., and 178° to 180° W. iong. The principal odd 
Raoul, or Sunday, and Macaulay; Curtis and Esperance being 
little more than rocks. Sunday Island has an estimated area of 7,260 
acres, rises to a height of 1 7720 € and is clothed with forest from the 
‘sea coast to the top of the mou 
On the Dotan d Raoul Island: Journal of the 
: Hooker, J. D. 
z MM Society, i. (1857), pp. 125-129. 
.F. On the Flora of the unen ters ‘Transac- 
tions of the New Zealand Institute, xx., 1887, pp. 1 
Hemsley, W. B. The substance of the foregoin ea a commen: | 
thereon. * Nature,” xxxviii., p. 622. eme tee 
