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NEW ZEALAND PLANTS. 



be seen in abundance in most New Zealand forests, and the climbing 

 hard-fern (Blechnum fili forme), with its two quite distinct forms of 

 foliage-leaves on the one plant (fig. 10), and which is very common 

 in all the drier forests of the North Island and of the lowlands of 

 northern Nelson and Marlborough. 



FIG. 11. The Liane, the Supplejack (Ehipogonum scamh H*}. growing as a member 



of a taxad forest. 



[Photo, L. Cockayne. 



The well-known supplejack (Ekipogonum sea-miens), a plant of the 

 lily family, forms close entanglements in most lowland forests (fig. 11) 

 Originally many of these stems have, wound round young trees, which 



