this neighbourhood and sent to him by a Mr. Craig about 1880. Athyrium umbrosum and Asplenium Hookerianum var. Colensoi were both collected by Riches and are now recorded for the first time.

In the accompanying list of existing species I give unrecorded habitats for at least thirty ferns and lycopods. There is ample evidence that some species now comparatively rare were once common—e.g., Leptolepia novaezelandiae and Polystichum adiantiforme. The former I have noted in nine separate localities, and the latter in four, though no other recent investigator has recorded them at all. Adiantum affine was once common over the whole area and is still widely distributed, but is plentiful only in a few localities, such as at Waterfall Gully on Mount Bossu, Nikau-palm Gully, and the cliffs near Mat. Wight's Bay. Polystichum adiantiforme has apparently not been recorded since Raoul first mentioned Akaroa as a habitat, though Mr. Louis J. Vangioni has it growing in his fernery on a fern-trunk from Grehan Valley, where I find it still fairly common. Laing regards Raoul's record as “probably an erroneous identification,” but this species still exists in all the main Akaroa valleys, and near McDonald's, half-way up the Jubilee Road, at Wainui.

Referring to Dicksonia fibrosa, which he records from Wainui, Laing says, “As I have no specimens, I am somewhat doubtful of the identification.” This fern is common in the Le Bon's Reserve, and has been obtained near the head of Barry's Bay by Mr. E. F. Stead. Azolla rubra is a new record on my own observation.