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Australis) ; this is an elegant growing plant ; it attains a 
height of about six feet ; the flowering stalk is nearly twice 
that height, terminated by a fine waving plume ; it is used 
to line their houses with, and looks extremely neat ; the stalk 
is called kahaho, the leaf toetoe. 
Karetu , (Torresia redolens,) a sweet-scented grass. 
Of the numerous families of sedges, ferns, &c., the follow- 
ing may suffice : — 
Fam. Gyperacece. — Toetoe , ( Lepidosper-ma elatior,) a coarse 
cutting grass ; there are twenty other varieties of the same 
family : a general name for sedges. 
Fam. j Restiacece. — Wiwi, Leptocavpus simplex , a general 
name for rushes. 
Fam. Polyodiacece — Huruhuru whenua ( Asplenium Lucidum, 
Falcatum , — polyodon , — obliquum, — obtusatum ,—flab~ llifolium , 
— bulbiferum ,) ota (nip hobolus -bicolor.) 
Raorao , aruhe, (Pteris esculenta ; ) — tuakura , ( DicJcsonia 
squarrosa ;) — ponga, (cyathea dealbata ;) — korau } mamaku , 
(ryathea medularis). The stem of this fern tree is eaten. 
Mouku, paratawiti (marattia elegans). A beautiful fern, 
with an edible root not unlike the bulbous scales of the white 
lily. 
Fam. Gleicheniacece . — Waewaekaka Gleichenia hecysto- 
phylla ,) kopakopa, (Tnchomenes reniforme). A beautiful 
circular-leafed fern, with the fructification on its edges. 
Fam. Osmundacece. — Mange mange Lyg odium articulatum ) . 
A beautiful climbing fern, used in building. 
Fam. Ophioylosscece. — Ti taranaki ( Botrychium Australe). 
A remarkable plant, abundant in the grassy plains. It was 
formerly eaten. 
F am . Lycopodiacece. — (Lycopodium lessonianum , — densum , 
cernuum , — flagellaria, — later ale, — phlegmaria , — volubile , — 
d’Urvillceit mesipteris Forsterii) ; all the plants belonging to 
this family are very beautiful. The Jungermannia is a very 
large family ; the Hepaticece also, and the Musci, calyptrati, 
mosses and liver worts, many of which are very beautiful, 
and extremely numerous ; several of the fungi are edible ; 
horses and cows have introduced the English mushroom ; 
