On 
a 
Vv. Vernicosa, as well as four or five other 
still unnamed species from the Awatere 
Valley. Marlborough, and the adjacent 
mcuntains. Mr F. G. Gibbs collected and 
sent WV. Vernicosa from the Dun Moun- 
tains. Nelson, and a new species, V. Acuti 
folia, from the Western Mountains. 
By Mr Willcox many interesting plants 
were collected and forwarded—V. Willcoxt, 
V. Bidwilli, V. Linifolia, V. Rakaiensis, 
and w new species so far unnamed, but 
which he proposed to describe and name as 
VY. Harti. 
Dr M‘Kay, of Greymouth, gathered and 
sent on V. Gilliesiana, that very interest- 
ing species quite unlike any other, which 
has for long hid itself from the view 0 
naturalists. Mr Hart and Mr_ Darton 
themselves traversed the mountain slopes 
near their own district, and gathered V. 
Propinqua, V. Linifolia, V. Staner Cerulea, 
V. Buxifolia, and a new species still un- 
named, but somewhat similar to V. 
Rakaiensis. , 
V. Benthami has been collected at the 
Auckland Islands, and plants are being 
grown there to await a visiting vessel to 
bear them away to join the collection of 
the genus at Wetherstones. 
Some of the Veronicas Crowing 
at Wetherstones. 
It will not be without interest if I give 
short popular descriptions of a few of the 
species to be seen in the Wetherstones col- 
lection, and I have selected the following 
as very interesting plants:— 
Who can look at the little gem, Bidwilli, 
and fail to be impressed with the delicacy 
of its creeping tendrils and foliage, which 
have pushed their way over the stones by 
which it is surrounded, until there is no- 
thing to be sean but a green surface of 
graceful beauty? And in its flowering sea- 
son how that beauty is enhanced by ihe 
tiny buds and florets of palest lavender that 
contrast with the delicate green in which 
they are embedded. Bidwillii is a diminnu- 
tive form of the genus, but it has always 
