Towards sunset the wind rosea sharp north-easter that made face and ears feel as if they were being flogged with stinging-nettles.

A few of them are agrimony, comfrey, dandelion, camomile, woodruff, marjoram, hyssop, sage, horehound, tansy, thyme, rosemary, stinging-nettle and raspberry.

And, for a cup ere mounting to the stirrup, The stinging-nettle's stimulating syrup.

But oh, it wrings the teardrop from my eye To think of Polly putting on the kettle To brew my daily dose of stinging-nettle!

The stinging-nettle crops up in every bed of flowers we raise; the bitter tonic flavours all we eat and drink.

The leaves of the common stinging-nettle ("'ettles" the labourers call them) have deep indents all round them.

The stinging-nettles are seven feet high in places; we must hold our hands high above our heads and plough our way through them.

Probably no human being trod on that space from one year's end to another, for the stinging-nettles, four or five feet high, were enough to keep off stray children.

STINGING-NETTLE.

Stinging-Nettle, large - Urtica dioica.

After sailing for a week, the fugitives had their reward, and were landed at Wharé-onga-onga (Abode-of-stinging-nettles), fifteen miles from Poverty Bay.