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seedlings. With regard to the adjacent burnt portions, I 

 made hsts of seedhng plants, their size, then- number in a 

 stated area, and their numbers with regard to each other; 

 noted also those plants which were only killed to the ground, 

 and had come up from the old stock, and those also which 

 escaped the fire altogether. In one instance, also, I added 

 to my list all the introduced species not indigenous which had 

 made their appearance.''' Some attention was also given to 

 variation of seedlings growing under the new conditions of 

 light and moisture, but such I reserve for consideration else- 

 where. The various sections, being mostly easy of access, 

 are readily available for future observations, and the struggle 

 for survival between the present small plants can easily be 

 watched and recorded by any future observer. 



Section K comprises the country at the Canterbury end 

 of the pass in the vicinity of the Pass Creek, on both sides of 

 the West Coast Eoad. Near the Fagus forest, reaching to the 

 edge of the creek, is a piece of unburnt scrub, while another 

 piece lies just over the main creek, on its northern side and 

 close to the road. With regard to the burnt portion, there is 

 a fine example for investigation between the two branches of 

 the creek. The following list is drawn up from notes on these 

 portions, and written on the spot, as were, indeed, all the notes 

 from which this paper is made up : — 



FoBMER Constituents of Section A (arranged roughly in 

 order of greatest quantity). 



1. Dracophyilum longifolmm, 3r.; covering half the area, 

 1-35 ra. in height. 



2. Phyllocladns alpimis, Hook. f. ; forming nearly one- 

 sixth of the whole. 



3. Gaya lyallii. Jack, and Hook. ; abundant, especially 

 near the forest ; 4 m. to 6 m. in height. 



4. Pafiax colensoi, Hook. f. ; 1-35 m. in height. 



5. Coprosma cuneata, Hook. f. \ a i.i. j • 



o jj TT 1 j; Scattered or ni 



D. „ parviflora. Hook. i. , , 3 



n Ti ■ \j TT \ e clumps here and 



7. veronica odora, Hook. t. Ku„,.„ u,,^- ;„ 



7a. „ subalpina,-\ sp. nov. 



8. „ canterhuriensis , J. B. Armst. 



9. Gassinia vauvilliersii, Hook. f. 

 10. Coprosma raviulosa, Petrie. 



"there, but in no 

 great quantity. 



* In most of the sections this was not necessary, for introduced 



plants take little or no place. 



t This Veronica is the most abundant form in Westland, to the exclu- 

 sion of all other.s except V. salicifolia at a certain altitude. Mr. T. Kirk, 

 to whom I referred a specimen, named it T'. traversii, var. approaching 

 V. IcBvis. I think, however, it is as good a species as most of our Veronicas, 

 varying to no great extent, and occupying wide areas. I therefore pro- 

 pose to call it provisionally " Veronica subaljoina." 



