. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . ov/erlip Neck,. GMT. del. ^° ^luslrale .Paper by GMTh omson. G. M. Thomson.—On Donatia novae-zealandife. 289 Art. XXXIV.—Note on Donatia novae-zealandise, Hook,/.By George M. Thomson, [Read before the Otago Institute, 29£/t June, 1880.]This interesting little plant, in the absence of the fruit, was placed originallyby Sir J. D. Hooker in the order Saxifrage®, and in his Handbook hespeaks of it* as the only representative in New Zealand of the herbaceoustribe of Saxifrages proper. Up to within a very recent period, however,its exact sys
. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . ov/erlip Neck,. GMT. del. ^° ^luslrale .Paper by GMTh omson. G. M. Thomson.—On Donatia novae-zealandife. 289 Art. XXXIV.—Note on Donatia novae-zealandise, Hook,/.By George M. Thomson, [Read before the Otago Institute, 29£/t June, 1880.]This interesting little plant, in the absence of the fruit, was placed originallyby Sir J. D. Hooker in the order Saxifrage®, and in his Handbook hespeaks of it* as the only representative in New Zealand of the herbaceoustribe of Saxifrages proper. Up to within a very recent period, however,its exact systematic position was matter of considerable uncertainty. Afew years ago, Baron Ferd. von Mueller expressed his decided opinionfthat its resemblances were so near those of Phyllachne, that it should beplaced along with that genus among the Stylidieae, and this opinion heagain published in Trimens Journal of Botany for 1878, p. 174. Inthe absence of fruit, however, this affinity could not be considered as finallyestablished. Mr. Petrie, Inspector of Schools f
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