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Grcn. Poac. ; compare (No. 1) Talieiti to Samoa. Broad leaves ; acute glumes. Abun- 

 dant in the forest. 



Stipa ? (No. 1). Habit of Agrostis ; calyx-glumes acute, corolla awned. Muthuata. 

 Andropogon (No. 2) ; paniculate spikes. Frequent on the barren hills of the Leeward 

 portion of the Group. 



(Cymbopogon, No. 1). Smaller, with the leaves narrower than in C. schoenanthus ; 



powerfully aromatic. On the barren hills of the Leeward portion of the Group, at 



Muthuata and elsewhere. 

 Heteropogon (No. 1) ; bristly glumes. Abounding on the barren hills of the Leeward 



portion of the group. 

 Chara nov. sp., (No. 1). Found by Mr. Dana "in a stream at Mba." 

 Psilotum (bis No. 1 Paumotuan coral-islands to Tongatabu). On the low coral-islet of 



Nukulau, and elsewhere ; observed also, on the mountain behind Muthuata. 

 Lycopodium ; bis (No. 4 Taheiti to Samoa). Habit of L. clavatum ; two to three feet, 



branching. Mountains on Ovolau, Mbua Bay, and elsewhere. 

 ; compare (No. 7) Samoa. Pendent ; leaves oval, obtuse ; spikes tetragonal. On 



the mountains on Ovolau. 

 (No. 8). Pendent; longer pointed leaves, branching spikes. On the mountains 



on Ovolau. — Apparently the same species growing also on Ovolau, epidendric, the leaves 



acute, the spikes a foot long. 

 ; perhaps distinct. F^pidendric ; the leaves narrower, pointed ; larger tetragonal 



spikes. On the mountains on Ovolau. 

 (No. 9) ; leaves oval, obtuse ; spikes cylindrical. Pendent on trunks of trees, 



on the mountains on Ovolau. 

 (No. 10). Habit of N. American sp. ; fr. axillary. On the mountains behind 



Muthuata, at the elevation of fifteen hundred feet. 

 (Selaginella) Durvillsci; compare (No. 2) Samoa. Hypnum-like; upright, two to four feet 



high. Ovolau, frequent in the forest. 

 ; a second Hypnoid species. Ovolau. 



Trichomanes alatum, Coquille ; bis (No. 2) Samoa. Stems fascicled; frond pinnate. Ovolau, 



at the elevation of one thousand feet, not abundant. 

 (No. 5). Six to ten inches; appressed to the surface ; much divided and curled. 



Mountains on Ovolau, at the elevation of fifteen hundred feet. 



der-stemmed variety has overrun much of the unwooded portion of the Group, under the 

 form of a coarse reedy grass; which in moist situations, becomes slightly more luxuriant, 

 with a trace of saccharine flavor; its stems, slender and very uniform in size, are much 

 used in Feejee architecture. 



(Tmperata ? ; bis Samoa, and compare Peru). A small species, near Peruvian. Rare at 

 Mba, more frequent at Naloa ; (introduced by aboriginal settlers). 



(Cymbopogon schoenanthus ; No. 2) ; lemon-grass ; having the odor as well as the flavor 

 of lemon-peel. Growing in large tufts, branching. Planted in villages ; and natural- 

 ized or indigenous around the base of barren hills at Muthuata, and elsewhere. 



Marsilea; compare (No. 1) Taheiti. Smooth, large-leaved. A(iuatic; growing in taro 

 ponds. 



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