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Memoranda of an Excursion, fyc. 
every specimen were quite withered. Some flower-stalks 
♦ were from 12 to 20 inches in height.* From a barren hill in 
this locality I obtained a Lycopodium, which I had not before 
noticed; together with a few mosses. From these heights the 
prospect is most extensive. Beneath me, as a panorama, was 
Poverty Bay, with its romantic headlands; while far away to 
the left, Hikurangi (the mountain near Waiapu) hid his vene¬ 
rable head in clouds. The atmosphere, however, was so filled 
with smoke, arising from the fern which was burning furiously 
to windward, that it was only with difficulty that I discerned 
a single distant object. Continuing my march till near sun¬ 
set, I halted for the night by the side of a small stream in a 
desolate wild, called by the natives, Tapntapaunia. Here, 
several species of the genus Epilobium flourished luxuriantly, 
of which I secured specimens. The sides of the rivulet were 
ornamented with fine plants of a species of large-leaved 
? Fagus, which 1 believe to he quite distinct from a closely 
allied species discovered by me at Wangarei, in 1839.f I 
think, however, that both of these species will be found to 
possess affinity with Fagus Cunninghamii, Hook., a species 
found in Van Diemen’s Land. 
(To be continued.) 
* Since penning the above, I am happy in being able to add, that 1 
have obtained (subsequent to my return to the Bay of Islands) fine living 
specimens of this plant, through sending a native from Tnranga to pro¬ 
cure some roots. These have flowered since they have been in my pos¬ 
session. Its corolla is monopefalous, labiate and quinquefid, with dicly- 
namous stamens, and superior unilocular ovary. It may probably rank 
under the Natural Order Cyrtondrccece; which order has, hitherto, been 
only represented in New Zealand Dy a solitary species. 
t The leaves of the species of Fogus detected at Wangarei, are, ovato- 
cordate, serrate nearly to base, truncate, sub-tridentate, serratures in 
each leaf 15-21, petioles slightly villous, leaves larger and broader than 
in the species found at Tapatapauma; which are, rhombic-ovate, upper 
half of leaf serrate or sub-laciniate, much more truncate, tridentate, and 
attenuated at base, serratures acuminate or mucronate, 11-13 in each leaf, 
petioles and v'hole upper surface of leaf, tomentose.— W. C.,MSS., ined. 
