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Provisional List of Ferns and Flowering-plants of the Port Hills—continued.

Species, family, &c. Maori Name. English Name. Habitat. FLOWERING - PLANTS (SPERMOPHYTA)— continued. l_ I I Cyperaobae. Klaeocharis Cunninyh/irn-ii Boeek. Uncinia uncinata Kiikenth. — leptostachya Raoul Carex secta Boott inversa R. Br. — dissita Sol. ternaria Forst. f. lucida Boott . . Mataii-a-Maui Matau-reriki . . Slender spike-rush Broad-leaved uncinia . . Tall uncinia Niggerhead Wet ground. Forest. Forest. Swamp. Tussock pasture. Forest. Swamp ; forest. 'Tussock pasture. Cutting-grass Shining-sedge .JUNCACKAH. J uncus pauciflorus R. Br. - effusus L. var. Luzula campestris D.C. var. migrata Buchen. and other vars. Slender rush Common rush Wood-rush Tussock pasture. Tussock pasture. Rock. Li i.i At! ham. Rh'ipogonum scandens Forst. Gordyline australis Hook. f. Astelia nervosa, Banks & Sol. Phormium tenax Forst. var. Arthropodium candidnm Raoul Kareao Ti Supplejack Cabbage-tree Bush-flax New Zealand flax Forest. Tussock pasture. Forest. Gullies; stony ground. Base of shaded rocks. Harakeke Amaryllidaoeae. Hypoxis pu.Ki.lla Hook. f. Tussock pasture. Iridaobae. Libertia ixioides Spreng. var. .. Tikauki Common libertia Rock where soil is deep. Orchidackai;. Earina mucronata Lindl. Thelymilra longifolia Forst. var. Peka-a-waka . . Makaika Pointed-leaved carina .. Common thelymitra Forest; rock. Tussock pasture; rock where soil is dee,]). Tussock pasture. Forest. Forest, on moist banks. Microtis unif'olia Rcichonb. Ptcroslylis Hanksii R. Br. Gorysanlhes triloba Hook. f. Onion-leaved orchid Common hooded orchid . . Common spider-orchid . . PlPBRAOEAS. Macropiper excelsum Miq. Kawakawa Forest. IJllTlOAOiOAR. Parutrophis microp/iylla Cockayne (— P. heterophylla. BL as denned in Man. N.Z. Flora, p. 632) U rlica f'erox Forst. f. . . incisa Poir Turepo Milk-tree Forest. Ongaonga Tree-nettle Forest-nettle Forest, or forming thickets. Forest. LORANTHAOEAlt. Loranthus micranthus Hook. f. Common New Zealand mistletoe Parasitic in 'forest on many trees. Parasitic on, Leptospermum scoparium. Forest (according to J. F. Armstrong). Probably parasitic on Melicope simplex. Korthalsella salicoruioidcs Van Tiegh. Liiidsayi Engler POLYUONACJKAK. Rumex flexuosus Sol, .. Miiehlenbeckia australis Meissn. New Zealand dock Tussock pasture. F o r (! s t ; climbing over shrubs in open. Forming open cushions on rocky ground and tussock pasture ; forest. complexa Meissn. Pohuchuo Chbnoeodiaobae, Rhagodia nutans R. Br. Rock. Caryophylla'oeajt. Scleranlhus biflorus Ho( k. f. Stellaria parvifiora Banks & Sol. Golobanthus Jiilla.rdieri Fenzl. var. Kohukohu Small-flowered chickweed Rock ; tussock pasture. Forest. Rock. Raniinoulao-EAE. Clematis indiiiisa' Willd, - foc/ida Raoul afoliala Buck. Ranunculus hirtus Banks & Sol. var. Pikiarero New Zealand clematis . . Forest. Forest. Rocky ground ; forest. Tussock pasture. Leafless clematis Common New Zealand buttercup — ■ inultiscapus Hook, f. ,. Tussock pasture. Magno'liaoeae. Drimys celcruta Raoul Horopito Blotchei 1 -leaved pepperForest, tree