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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Latliyrus? (No. 1 ) ; but no flowers. Stems long, rambling, tangled among shrubs; leaflets 

 large, as in L. Americanus; stipules many-toothed; teeth long, subulate. In the forest 

 on Mauna Kea, at the elevation of 3500 feet. 



Acacia heterophylla, (bis No. 3 lower down). The principal tree at the upper margin of 

 the forest on Mauna Kea, and extending into the pastoral district in the form of scat- 

 tered bushes as far as the elevation of 7200 feet. On Mauna Haleakala, commencins; 

 at the elevation of 2000 feet. 



Rubus (bis No. 2 lower down). Extending in the pastoral district on Mauna Kea to 

 the elevation of 9500 feet. On Mauna Haleakala, from the elevation of 3000 to 

 7200 feet. 



(No. 3); "distinct," according to Mr. Brackenridge. Creeping, trifoliolate, 



pubescent. On the North flank of Mauna Haleakala, at the elevation of 6700 feet. 

 Fragaria (nov. sp., No. 1 ) ; compare F. Chilensis (of some writers). Leaves with long 



hairs, the under surface sericeous and whitish ; " inflorescence on a very short stem;" 



no tendency to produce a fleshy berry. In somewhat moist places around the Great 



Crater, abundant; extending on Mauna Roa, as far as the elevation of 5000 feet. 



In the pastoral district on Mauna Kea, to the elevation of 8700 feet. And on 3Iauna 



Haleakala, from the elevation of 3000 to 5500 feet. 

 Acaena (No. 1 ). Low; the stem only four or five inches ; at base, crowded small leaves 



with broad sheaths. In a bog on the tabular summit of Tauai. 

 Lythrum (bis No. 1 lower down, and compare Peru). In the environs of the Great 



Crater. On Mauna Haleakala, from the elevation of 5500 to G700 feet. 

 Metrosideros (bis No. 4 lower down). On Mauna Roa, as far at least as the elevation of 



0500 feet; where only fifteen feet high, with the trunk eight inches in diameter. A 



woolly Metrosideros seen on Mauna Haleakala, at the elevation of 6700 feet. 

 (bis lower down). The variety or species with smooth fruit, growing in company 



with the preceding on Mauna Roa, to the elevation of 6500 feet; but rare. 

 Sanicula ? (No. 1) ; leaves mostly radical, deeply divided ; flowers small, in capit. ; " fruit 



rough. On Mauna Roa," Brackenridge. On Mauna Haleakala, frequent from the 



elevation of 3000 to 5500 feet, the flowers yellow. 

 Gen. Pastinacoid, (No. 1). Leaves pinnate; the segments broad-ovate, inequal at base, 



sharply-serrate, acute, the lowest in some instances divided ; support of fruit a third of 



an inch in length. Along the Leeward verge of the tabular summit of Tauai, at the 



elevation of 3700 feet. 



Gunnera (No. 1); very large leaves. Clinging to the face of precipitous rock, at the 

 Northern termination of the tabular summit of Tauai, and in the mountain-defile across 

 AVest Maui ; or from the elevation of 2500 to 4000 feet. 



Nertera (No. 1 ; compare No. 4 Terra del Fuego). Seeming properly a mountain plant, 

 though not extending above the limit of the forest. On the mountains behind Hono- 

 lulu ; and to the elevation of 5500 feet in the forest on 3Iauna Kea. 



Caenotus Canadensis ? (bis lower down). Naturalized in the pastoral region on Mauna 

 Kea ; probably introduced by colonial Whites. Apparently the same species growing 

 on Mauna Haleakala, at the elevation of 5500 feet. 



Gnaphalium (luteo-album ? ; compare Peruvian Andes, New Zealand, x\ustralia, and 

 Europe). Annual ; leaves linear, the under surface white ; flowers yellowish. On 



