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NOTES ON SOME PLANTS OF OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND. 327
latter, however, has a different form of leaf. Between Tuguriorum
and sepium there are sometimes considerable differences, as regards the
size of the plant, size and form of leaf, form of bracts, and other cha-
racters, especially if the contrast be made with the larger forms of the
latter species. Nevertheless they do not seem to me to be properly
separable. In my specimens of Tuguriorum, stem and leaves are
glabrous. Leaf about 1 in. long, acuminate, 2-lobed at the base,
broadly cordate. Bracts as long as the calyx, broadly ovate, acuminate.
2. C. Soldanella, Br. Sand-dunes about the mouth of the Kaikorai
October, young, W. L. L. The " Pauahi "* or " Nahinahi " of the
North Island Maori,—terms, however, pi'obably applied also to other
species of the genus.
Roots several feet long, trailing over or in the sand, like those of va-
rious of our littoral "Bents" (grasses or sedges). Leaves glabrous,
cordate-reniform, not decidedly broader than long, about 1 in. both in
length and breadth, subacuminate, less reuiform and with a much
more acute apex than in any British specimens, in some respects
intermediate in character between those of Tuguriorum and sepium,
but stouter than either.
Though I did not myself meet with them, C. sepium, L., and C. eru~
lescens, Br. also apparently occur in Otago. The former is " Pauahi
and " Pohiiehiie " or " Pohue" (Colenso) of the North Island Maoris,
who also probably apply the term "Wene" to its young shoots (Wil-
liams), its rhizome, like that of Pteris aquilina, var. esculenta,-\ having
once formed one of the native /ooc^s. Certain forms of C. sepium closely
approach those of C. Tuguriorum ; they appear, moreover, to affect the
same habitat, and to occur occasionally intermixed, whence it hap-
pens that they are apt to be confounded,—if they are to be considered
separate species, an arrangement of the propriety of which (I have al-
ready stated) I have some doubt. In Holstein specimens of C. sepium%
(from Wedel, on the Elbe), the leaves are very delicate and mem-
branous, 4 in. long by 3 in. broad.
Genus VI. Solanum.
1. S. aviculare, Forst. In the bush, Jeft'cott's station, Stoneyhill,
* E. g. "Panaclii," applied also to C. sepium (Colenso).
t Vide my paper on " Otago Ferns," Trans, of Botanical Society of Edinhurgli,
vol. ix. p. 40.
X " Notes on the Flora of Holstein ;" ' Phytologist,' new series, vol. i.
p. 369.
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