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striking likeness it has to a lycopod!’ Liat 
ig to say, to a lycopod of a particular type. 
Of a light and tender green, its closely- 
packed leaves specially attract the eye 
where there is so much to attract in the 
hed. It matters not that it is not viewed 
in its flowering season: it is a charming 
little plant, fit to take its place among the 
best of its fellows. 
And of Muelleri? Here, again, we have 
» veronica of the most diminutive type— 
so diminutive, indeed, that it requires the 
sharpest of eyes to detect it if in its native 
surroundings, probably growing among 
other vegetation, its rootlets running along 
under the surface and sending up their 
short stems topped with their little green 
leaflet caps. Muelleri is not a species that 
grows very readily under cultivation. — It 
has a habit of withering off in portions, but 
such is, however, not a characteristic that 
has shown itself in my specimen plant, and 
I am in hopes it will continue its growth 
uninterruptedly. 
As to the identity of Gilliesiana, there 
has been some discussion of late among 
the few people who have had examples of 
the species in their grounds. There were 
one or two plants of so-called Gilliesiana 
in the Christchurch Public Gardens, and Mr 
Hart had another in his veronica plantation 
at Wetherstone. That it was really this 
species, however, he had grave doubt. 
I discussed the matter some time back with 
the superintendent of the gardens at Christ- 
church, who was reasonably well assured 
that the plants he had were Gilliesiana. 
The doubt as to this was made stronger 
when an inspection of a dried specimen 
of the plant in the herbarium of the late 
Mr H. J. Matthews disclosed characteristics 
similar to those described in Mr Cheese- 
man’s ‘Manual,’ and entirely foreign to 
the living plants above referred to. Con- 
firmation of the doubts being justified came 
shortly afterwards in the finding of plants 
of the true Gillhesiana by Dr M‘Kay, of 
Greymouth, an enthusiastic collector, who, 
after several failures on some of the moun- 
tains of the Grey district, finally located 
the elusive Gilliesiana on one of the peaks 
over 4000ft high—a meritorious and gratify- 
