Art. X.—Plant-habitats Hitherto Unrecorded.

Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 46, 1913, Page 55

Art. X.—Plant-habitats Hitherto Unrecorded. By B. C. Aston, F.I.C., F.C.S [Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 22nd October, 1913.] In this paper I have endeavoured to embody discoveries which may beeither (1) a genuine extension of the known range of distribution of a plant (and not merely a habitat confirmatory of those mentioned in standard floras of New Zealand), or (2) a correction of a generalization which is found to be incorrect, or (3) a confirmation of the occurrence of a rare species. Lepidium obtusatum T. Kirk. Seatoun; on beach and rocks. Melicytus micranthus Hook. f. Near Rotorua; Bishop's Bush, Horoeka, Puketoi Range; Whiskers Bush, Feilding. This shrub is a comparatively rare plant in Wellington Province. Hymenanthera obovata T. Kirk. The Titahi Bay form (see Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 42, 1910, p. 46) occurs at Port Nicholson Heads. Pittosporum rigidum (?) Hook. f. Horoeka, in Puketoi Range. Entelea arborescens R. Br. Paekakariki; by margin of creek. Aristotelia Colensoi Hook. f. Ruahine Mountains, 3,500 ft. Pomaderris elliptica Lab. Common on the eastern lower slopes of Pirongia Mountain, on fern and scrub country, at about 600ft. elevation. It is a conspicuous component of the formation in September, owing to the beautiful yellow flowers. Mr. Cheeseman writes me that this is quite a new locality to him, and the most southerly known on the west side of the North Island. Discaria Toumatou Raoul. Head of Palliser Bay. An uncommon plant in Wellington Province. Carmichaelia nana Col. Kaimanawa Mountains, 3,000–4,000 ft., near Moawhango. — subulata T. Kirk. Kaimanawa Mountains. Geum parviflorum Sm. Kaimanawa Mountains, 4,000–5,000 ft. Metrosideros Colensoi Hook. f. Fairly common in south of Wellington Province. Epilobium insulare Haussk. Kaimanawa Mountains, 3,000–4,000 ft. — pycnostachyum Haussk. Shingle-slips at 5,000 ft. on Te Atua Mahura, Ruahine Mountains. Hitherto recorded from the South Island only. Tillaea diffusa T. Kirk. Breaker Bay, near Seatoun. Hydrocotyle tripartita R. Br. var. hydrophila. Kaimanawa Mountains, 3,000–4,000 ft. Aciphylla intermedia Petrie. Table-top, Mount Dennan; Quoin, 3,900 ft.; Mount Dundas, 3,950 ft.: all on Tararua Mountains. — polita Cheesem. Mount Richmond, Marlborough. A. Morris Jones! Angelica geniculata Hook. f. Wainuiomata mouth. — rosaefolia Hook. Oarenga River cliffs, Kaimanawa Mountains, Ruahine Mountains. Coprosma ramulosa Petrie. Kaimanawa Mountains, 5,000 ft. Olearia furfuracea Hook. f. Kaimanawa Mountains, 4,000 ft. — virgata Hook. f. Waikaka, Hauraki Plains (the most northerly station yet recorded); Kaimanawa Mountains.

Celmisia Macmahoni T. Kirk. Mount Richmond. A. Morris Jones! — glandulosa Hook. f. Ruahine Mountains. Gnaphalium subrigidum Col. Moawhango Gorge, near Taihape; near Dannevirke; Cape Turnagain; near Martinborough. Miss M. E. Farrow! This last is the most southerly station yet recorded. Senecio Colensoi Hook. f. Cape Turnagain. Oreostylidium subulatum Bergg. Kaimanawa Mountains, 4,100 ft. Cyathodes pumila Hook. f. Ruahine and Kaimanawa Mountains, 5,000 ft. Sebaea ovata R. Br. Cape Turakirae, Palliser Bay. Myosotis Forsteri Lehm. Kaimanawa Mountains. Veronica angustifolia A. Rich. Kaimanawa Mountains. — parviflora Vahl. Kaimanawa Mountains. Teucridium parviflorum Hook. f. Taumarunui. Elytranthe Colensoi Engl. Growing on forty-year-old oak, Takapau, Wharaungo, Havelock, Marlborough. A. Morris Jones! — tetrapetala Engl. Parasitic on Dracophyllum subulatum, in Kaimanawa Mountains, at 3,500 ft. Korthalsella Lindsayi Engl. Wainuiomata mouth, on Muehlenbeckia Astoni. Paratrophis Banksii Cheesem. Mana Island. Fagus Menziesii Hook. f. Absent from the Ruahine Mountains from 2,000–4,500 ft. Potamogeton pectinatus L. In creek near Cape Turnagain. Oreobolus strictus Bergg. Ruahine Mountains, 5,000 ft. Uncinia compacta R. Br. Kaimanawa Mountains; Disappointment Island, and Port Ross, in Auckland Island group. Microlena polynoda Hook. f. Waihi Falls, near Weber; Whiskers Bush, near Feilding. Lomaria fluviatilis Spreng. At 3,600 ft. on Ruahine Mountains.