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has not been seen for years.” He also mentions that Discaria toumatou and 
Schefflera digitata were common there, and he is, I am sure, correct, though 
I cannot personally recall the fact. The only locality that I can associate 
with the Schefflera is the bush above Port Chalmers. 
I have not attempted to deal with the animals or plants which either 
accidentally or wilfully have been introduced into the Dominion and have 
led to the extermination or suppression of many native forms of life, but 
I trust that my recollections of some of the changes I have seen may prove 
of interest, and may be of some little value. 
List of Ferns collected in the Neighbourhood of Dunedin from 
1869 to 1874. 
Gleichenia Cunninghamii. 
Cyathea dealbata. 
Hemitelia Smithii. 
Alsophila Colensoi. 
Dicksonia squarrosa. 
- fibrosa. 
Hymenophyllum tunbridgense. 
-var. unilaterale. 
- bivalve . 
- — -— multifidum. 
— -—- rarum. 
- polyanthos. 
- dilatatum. 
- pulcherrimum. 
- demissum. 
—-—• scabrum. 
- flabellatum. 
- subtilissimum. 
- Malingii. 
Trichomanes venosum, 
Davallia novae-zealandiae . 
Adiantum affine. 
Hypolepis distans. 
- millefolium. 
Cheilanthes tenuifolia. 
Pellaea rotundifolia. 
Pter is aquilina. 
- scaberula. 
- incisa. 
Lomaria Patersoni. 
- discolor. 
- vulcanica. 
Lomaria lanceolata. 
- alpina. 
- Banksii. 
—— procera. 
- fiuviatilis. 
- membranacea. 
A splenium fi abellifoliu m. 
- obtusatum. 
—— lucidum. 
--— var. Lyallii. 
- Hookerianum. 
- bulbiferum. 
- Richardi. 
■ - fiaccidum. 
Aspidium aculeatum. 
■ - Richardi. 
- capense. 
Nephrodium decomposilum. 
- velutinum. 
- hispidum. 
Polypodium punctatum var. rugu 
losum. 
Poly podium pennigerum. 
- australe. 
- grammitidis. 
- serpens. 
- - Billardieri. 
Todea hymenophylloides. 
—-— superba. 
Ophioglossum vulgatum. 
Botrychium ternatum. 
