Tataramoa.--_Rubus australis._ A climbing bramble, armed with prickles, branches pendulous, leaves coriaceous; berry, red or amber-coloured; known to the colonists as the "bush lawyer;" found in all the forests of the interior; most frequent in Valley of Whanganui. Tikupenga.--_Cordyline stricta._ Titirangi.--_Veronica speciosa._ Totaratara.--A small shrub with a white flower. Tupapa.--_Lagenophora Forsteri._ Native daisy. Tutu.--_Coriaria ruscifolia._ A frequent shrub with glossy leaves and pendulous clusters of purple fruit, the seeds of which are poisonous as well as the foliage; produces a black dye. Waewaekaka.--_Gleichenia hecystophylla._ Wharangi.--_Melicope ternata._ A broad-leaved, poisonous shrub, very common in the forests of the Whanganui and Western Taupo. CREEPING, CLIMBING, AND PARASITIC PLANTS. (_Common throughout the interior._) Aka.--_Metrosideros buxifolia._ Kareao.--_Rhipogonum scandens._ A climbing wiry vine, the "supple Jack" of the colonists; leaves three to five inches long, linear, ovate; often grows in entangled masses, abundant in all the forests; largest specimens found in the swampy forests of the Whanganui. A decoction of the root forms a good substitute for sarsaparilla. Kiekie.--_Freycientia Banksii._ A plant producing an edible flower and fruit. Kohia.--_Parsiflora tetrandra._ A climbing plant. Kowharawhara.--_Astelia Banksii._ A parasitical broad-leaved grass, growing in tufts on trees, bearing an edible berry. Kowhaia.--_Edwardsia microphilla._ A passion-flower; colour, green and orange, with fragrant fruit. Mawhai.--_Sicyos Australis._ A creeping plant. Patangatanga.--_Freycientia Banksii._ Pikiarero--_Clematis_, bearing a beautiful white flower. Puawananga.--_Clematis indivisa_, bearing a white flower. FERNS. Hiaue.--Creeping _lycopodium._ Huruhuruwhenua.--_Asplenium lucidum._ Kiokio.--_Polypodium._ Kopakopa.--_Trichomanes._ A round-leaved fern. Korokio.--The smallest tree-fern. Kotote.--A small-leaved fern. Kurakura.--A small kind of _lycopodium_. Maerere.--A small-leaved fern. Makaka.--_Adianthum._ Mangapowhatu.--_Polytrichum cyphoma._ Mangemange.--_Lycopodium articulatum._ A creeping fern. Mokimoki.--Long-leaved fern. Mouku.--An edible fern. Ngutu-Karkariki.--Parrot's bill fern, so called from the form of its foot-stalk; the fronds are plume-shaped. Panaka.--_Asplenium._ A very graceful fern. Para Marattia.--_Salicina._ A large fern. Paretau.--_Asplenium obliquum._ A large-leaved fern. Puaka rimu.--The tree _lycopodium._ Raorao.--_Pteris esculenta._ A common edible fern, the root of which formed at one time the principal food of the Maori. Raumanga.--_Polypodium._ A broad-leaved fern. Tapui kotuku.--Creeping _lycopodium_. Tarakupenga.--Creeping _lycopodium_.