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Epilobium.] ONAGRACEAE. 605 
AUCKLAND AND CAMPBELL Istanps: Meadows and open slopes from sea-level 
to 1000 ft., Hooker, T. Kirk! B.C, Aston! R. M. Laing ! and others. 
For reasons given in my memoir on the Botany of the Subantarctic Islands, I 
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now confine this species to Hooker’s plant figured in the ‘‘Icones Plantarum,” and 
also described in the “‘ Flora Antarctica.” The New Zealand plants formerly referred 
to it are better placed under H. tasmanicum. 
9. E. tasmanieum Haussk. Monog. Epilob. (1884) 296, t, 20, f. 84.— 
Usually pale-green, but occasionally reddish, forming broad depressed tufts 
2-6in. diam. Stems 2-6 in. long, creeping and rooting at the base, ascend- 
ing above, more or less copiously branched, perfectly glabrous, not bifariously 
pubescent. Leaves spreading, opposite, shortly petiolate, petioles often 
connate at the base, ovate or ovate-oblong, the uppermost often obovate- 
oblong, }-4in. long, rarely more, almost entire or obscurely denticulate, 
somewhat fleshy and frequently shining, midrib scarcely prominent. Flowers 
few, white or pink, erect, #-4+in. long, almost sessile. Calyx-segments 
lanceolate, glabrous; tube short. Stigma clavate. Capsules glabrous, 
erect, #in. long; peduncles rather shorter than the leaves. Seeds red- 
“rown, minutely papillose—Z. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 171. E. con- 
rtifolium var. tasmanicum Cheesem. Man. N.Z, Fl. (1906) 176. 
Sout Ispanp: Nelson—-Lake Rotoiti, 7. Kirk! Wairau Gorge, Upper Clarence 
alley, 7. #. C. Canterbury—Craigieburn Mountains, Cockayne / mountains above 
1e Broken River, 7. F. C.; Mount Peel district, H. H. Allan; Mount Dobson 
ange, 7. F. C. Otago—Not uncommon on the central and western mountains, 
‘erie! Mount Alta, Buchanan! Rock and Pillar Range, A. Wall! niountains at the 
ead of Lake Wanaka, Ben Ohau Range, Cockayne / 1500--5500 ft. December— 
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ebruary. ;> 24 3 GI Lad - 
This is very close to the preceding, from which it is mainly distinguished by its 
maller ‘size, by the stems not being distinctly bifariously pubescent, by the leaves 
ing rather broader, smaller, and not so closely placed, and by the paler colour. 
Vhether it is really identical with the Tasmanian F#. tasmanicum is a matter that 
annot be settled without the comparison of specimens from both countries. I have 
een no specimens that exactly match Haussknecht’s plate of the Tasmanian plant. 
10. E. pietum Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii (1896) 538.—Stems 
few, slender, 8-10in. high, decumbent and sparingly branched below, 
ascending or erect above, terete, finely and evenly pubescent, especially 
towards the tips of the branches. Lower leaves opposite, upper alternate, 
spreading, remote, $-$in. long, linear-oblong to oblong or ovate-oblong, 
obtuse, sessile or shortly petioled, membranous, often blotched with grey, 
usually sharply and coarsely remotely denticulate. Flowers 2-6 towards 
the tips of the branches, small, pink, 4in. diam. Calyx-lobes ovate- 
lanceolate, almost equalling the petals. Stigma narrow-clavate. Capsules 
1-13 in. long, slender, densely and evenly hoary-pubescent ; peduncles 
short, never exceeding the leaves. Seeds smooth.—OCheesem. Man. N.Z. 
Fi, (1906) 176. E, haloragifolium 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 177 (not 
of A. Cunn.). | 
Souty Isnann: Marliborough—Tinline Valley, J. A. Macmahon ! Nelson—Mount 
Tsabel, Hanmer, Cockayne ; Mount Percival, 7. F. C. ; Lake Tennyson, 2. M. Laing. 
Canterbury—Riccarton Bush, Cockayne; Banks Peninsula, 4. Wall - Mount Peel, 
H. H. Allan! Upper Waimakariri, 7. Kirk! Craigieburn Mountains, Cockayne / 
Bealey, 7. F. C.; Lake Tekapo, Hooker and Tasman Vallevs, 7. F. C. Otaco— 
Mountain -vallevs in Central Otago, not uncommon, Petrie/ SrEwart ISLAND : 
Cockayne. Sea-level to 3500 ft. December—February. 
