Cockayne. — Begroiuth of Burnt Forest. 405 



Ligusticuni awmaticum, Banks aud. Sol., var. 



Gentiana hellidifolia, Hook. f. 



Viola filicaulis , Hook. f. 



Astelia nervosa, Banks and Sol. 



Aciphylla colensoi, Hook. f. 



Agrostis canina, L., var. 



Baoulia jyarkii , Buch. 



Angelica gingidium. Hook. f. 



Viola cunning hamii, Hook. f. 



Uncinia compacta, Br., var. 



Cotula 2)er2}usilla, Hook. f. 



Poa anceps, Forst., var. 



Uncinia, sp. ; tall, with narrow leaves. 



Galium, sp. 



Hydrocotyle nova-zelandice, DC. 



Coriaria angustissima, Hook. f. 



Plantago broivnii, Eafin. 



Mimulus radicans, Hook. f. 



Geum pusilluyn, Petrie (?). 



Senecio bellidioides , Hook. f. 



Schcenus paucijiorus, Hook. f. 



Gnajihalimn bellidioides. Hook. f. 



Senecio lyallii, Hook. f. 



Myosotis forsteri, Eoem. and Schultz. 



Introduced Plants. 



Stellaria media, Witt. ^ 



Holcus lanatus, L. 

 Trifolium repens, L. 



„ pratense, L. 

 Bumex acetosetla, L. 



Ferns. 

 Hypolepis millefolium, Hook. 

 Lomaria alpina, Spreugl. 

 Aspidium aculcatum, Sw., var. 



To give some idea of the rapid reproduction of certain 

 shrubs, in one square metre of ground were counted: Veronica 

 subalpina, 118 plants, 0-34 m. to 0-02 m. in height; Verojiica 

 canterburiensis , 4 plants ; Veronica odora, 1 plant ; Gassinia 

 vauvilliersii, 35 plants; Goprosma (with ciliated leaves), 2 

 plants : total, 160 plants. 



The plants enumerated were all growing among the remains 

 of the dead standing shrubs, and the list gives an example of 

 how a vegetation of herbaceous plants and grasses will occupy 

 the ground in the first instance, to be afterwards choked out 

 by a new growth of shrubs. To summarise the results, the 

 old scrub — consisting principally of Gaya lyallii, Phyllocladus 



