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the sight, vociferating loudly their being privileged to 
see a u koraha maori” (indigenous fern-land, open coun¬ 
try.,) again! Their uncontrolled joy forcibly reminded 
me of the rejoicing of the u ten thousand ’ Greeks, 
•on their again seeing the sea. In crossing this plain I 
obtained, from a boggy watercourse, a small plant 
with white flowers, probably a species of Limosella — 
a fine species of Marchantia —a Hydrocotyle —and 
a species of Hypericum . This last appeared to me 
to be very distinct from H. pusillum, IZ Cand . this 
being a plant of erect growth, with oblong calyces, 
and oblong-ovate or obovate undulated and margined 
leaves. We halted this evening at Te Waiiti, a fenced 
village, situated on the banks of the river at the end of 
the plain. The bed of this stream (here large enough 
to float a moderate sized boat) was composed of ashes 
and other volcanic substances worn into pebbles. 
The next morning we resumed our journey. Passing 
on through a low wood by the river’s side, I noticed 
several fine plants of JDicksonia fibrosa , their trunks 
grotesquely hewn by the natives into all manner of un¬ 
common shapes, in cutting away their fibrous outside 
for the purpose of plank for their houses and stores. 
Discovered another Lomaria (X. deltoides , ?i. sp. 9 W.C.) 
this morning, in ascending the first wooded hill after 
fording the river. This species approaches very closely 
in general appearance, X. deflexa, already noticed. In 
a damp forest I obtained fine specimens of my new 
Davallia , some fronds measuring 18 inches in length. 
* IJ. pusillum, is thus described:—" Caule debili prostrato, foliis 
ovatis obtusis, calyce lanccolato,” &c. (D'Cand.,prodr. 7. p. 540); and 
is mentioned by Cunningham, in his “ Precursor ” as being found in 
New Zealand. Vide, Ann. Nett. Hist vol. iii. p. 317. 
