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the Midland Eailway fire. Formerly the lake was enclosed 

 by stibalpine scrub, and the south face of the moraine was 

 also densely covered. The ground at the south end of the 

 lake is rapidly becoming covered with fresh growth. In a 

 patch of burnt Dracophyllmn longifoliuvi 20 cm. square were 

 counted forty-five young plants of Celmisia armstrongii, and 

 in 16 cm. by 8 cm. w^ere thirty seedlings of Ligusticuvi haastii. 

 The new scrub on this side will be, in large measure, Vero- 

 nica and Cassinia ; formerly Dracophylluin longifolium was 

 the leading feature. 



On the western side of the lake is a piece of subalpine 

 scrub left intact. This is divided into two halves, where 

 the fire partially burnt out its middle portion, and so forms 

 a splendid example, for one can tell for a fact of what the 

 original scrub exactly consisted. The following is a list of 

 the present living species, arranged in order of most frequent 

 occurrence : — 



1. Dracophyllum longifolium, Br. ; Pliyllocladus alpinus, 

 Hook. f. 



2. Coprosma parviflora, Hook. f. ; Olearia numviularifolia, 

 Hook, f . ; Cassinia vauvilliersii, Hook, f . 



3. Gaya lyallii, Jack, and Hook. ; Dacrydium colensoi, 

 Hook. f. ; Panax colensoi, Hook. f. 



4. Dracophyllum traversii, Hook. f. ; very plentiful in the 

 tallest, but not common in the lowest scrub. 



5. Hymenanthera,'^' sp. ; scarce. 



6. Veronica odora, Hook. f. ; very scarce. 



7. Clcinatis australis, T. Kirk ; scarce. 



8. Vero7iica suhalpina, sp. nov. ; very scarce. 

 Especially noticeable is the small quantity of Veronica. 



Herbaceous Plants and Grasses. 



Pliormiuvi cookianuvi, Le Jolis ; a few plants. 

 Viola cunninghamii , Hook. f. 

 Ourisia macrophylla. Hook. f. 

 Da.nthonia raoulii, Steud. 

 And perhaps others not noted. 



List of Plants which have appeared in Burnt Portion 

 OF Section D since the Fire. 

 Coprosyna serrulata, Hook. f. ; in 'quantity. 

 Senecio elceagnifolius. Hook. f. ; in quantity. 

 Cassinia vauvilliersii. Hook. f. ; in quantity. 



* One of the species doubtless formerly included under H. crassi- 

 folia, Hook. f. ; but, in absence of specimens, I am not able to refer it to 

 its new species according to Kirk in " Transactions of the New Zealand 

 Institute," vol. xxviii., p. 510: "A Revision of the New Zealand Species 

 of Eymenanthera, R. Br.," by T. Kirk, F.L.S. 



