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cimens of fossil marine shells, imbedded in sand-stone; the 
stone itself being extremely hard. On the sandy shore, in 
front of the village, I detected a rambling Clematis , with ter- 
nate, coriaceous, and glabrous leaves, the lower half of each 
leaflet being greatly crenate. I believed this to be a new 
species (or, perhaps, a variety of C. coriacea , Be Cand. 
prodr. I. p. 5) but, unfortunately, lost my specimens which 
I brought away for examination. 
During the whole night, there incessantly descended— 
- “ Whole sheets of sluicy rain, 
Suck’d by the spongy clouds from oil’the main;” 
from which I was happy to take refuge in a native’s little hut, 
which not being finished was far from being water-proof. 
Here, among the reeds with which the hut was lined, were 
myriads of small insects of the Anobium? genus, who most 
annoyingly kept up a continuous drumming and tickling all 
night. I tried to secure some of these gallant little sere¬ 
nades, or at least to get them to keep the peace, but in vain. 
Morning however broke, and being fine, I continued my 
journey. After travelling for four miles over beaches, I ar¬ 
rived at Waipiro, a small village, whence I directed my course 
inland, over high and craggy hills. A short distance beyond 
Tapatahi, a village romantically perched on a high and per¬ 
pendicular crag, I discovered a timber tree of the Natural 
Order Corylacece , from 30 to GO feet in height, with small 
oval entire leaves, which may possibly be found to belong to 
the Linnsean genus Fagus. I had first noticed this plant, 
in this very locality, a few years before, but had not subse¬ 
quently seen it in any of my wanderings, until I came again 
to the same spot. I got a native to climb it, in order to pro¬ 
cure me a branch, but was disappointed in not being able to 
procure good specimens. Proceeding onwards, I discovered 
two elegant species of Fpilobium, a species of Convol¬ 
vulus, with very small leaves; and a species of Pittosporum , 
which at first I took for P. umbcUatnm, Banks , but have 
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