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the experiment would be repeated, with the result that the tuatara 
lizards would be either completely decimated or reduced to very small 
numbers, 
Professor Parker seconded the resolution, and felt personally 
indebted to the mover, as he was particularly interested ‘in the tuatara 
lizards, and had been endeavouring to obtain their embryos. He and 
Professor Thomas (of Auckland) had visited Karewa Island for this 
purpose, and had brought away a number of specimens, but had, of 
course, been careful to run no risk of depopulating the island. However 
if such shipments as had been made were repeated two or three times, 
the island would quickly be cleared, and it would amount almost toa 
crime to allow this. The lizards were most interesting in structure, 
being of a peculiar old type—a kind of ancient aristocratic race of 
lizards, and it was of the utmost importance that their development 
should be accurately worked out. He had spoken to the Hon. Mr. 
Stout upon the subject, and he said he would try to get them put under 
the Preservation of Animals Act. 
Paper.—(1) ‘New species of Flowering Plants,” by D. Petrie, M.A. 
The paper described five new species of plants indigenous to the colony, 
which the author had gathered in February on the mountains of the 
interior of Otago. All of the plants were found on the Mt. Pisa Range, 
and two of them on the Old Man Range also, at altitudes ranging from 
4—6000 feet. A new Cotula (C. Goyent) is the most remarkable of the 
plants described. It is very small, with imbricate leaves and minute 
almost sessile heads distinguished by the possession of none but flattened 
truncate stigmas. This species has close affinity to Cotula pectinata, and 
also to C. Maniototo. A very pretty small Myosotis is named MM. 
Cheesemanii. It has small heads of white sweet-scented flowers and in 
form of the corolla approaches the Lxarrhena section of the genus. 
Three new Carices (C. Berggreni, C. Kirku, and C. Thomson) are all of 
small size. C. Berggrent is one of the most distinct forms of the genus, 
and is easily distinguished by its short obtuse red-brown ensiform leaves. 
C. Kirkit belongs to the same section as C. Muellert (=C. viridis) and 
C. kaloides, and forms a connecting link between these peculiar species 
and their less differentiated congeners. C. YThomsoni attains the 
greatest altitude (6300 feet) of all the species on Mt. Pisa. It forms 
small rounded patches on the plateau-like ridge at the top, and grows 
only on the very highest ground. 
On the same tour the author gathered on Mt. Pisa Raowlia 
bryoides (Hook. f.) or a variety of that species, thus greatly extending 
its known range; also Carex wncifolia which Mr. Cheeseman has 
described from the mountains of Nelson. 
J. W. Davis, Esq., F.G.S., F.L.S., &c., of Chevinedge, Halifax, — 
England, has undertaken to describe the fossil Shark’s teeth of New 
Zealand. He will, if required, return all specimens to the sender ~ 
as soon as the description has been published. Specimens can be 
sent by post. They should have the locality and collector's name — 
attached to them. Collections should be as complete as possible; 
the common species are just as important as the rare ones and should — 
not be neglected. 
