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11. Coprosma serrulata, Hook. f. 



12. Myrsine mivimidaria, Hook, f . 



13. Senecio hichvillii, Hook. f. 



14. Pittosporum rigidum, Hook. f. 



15. „ var. with white flowers. 



16. Dracopliylhim uniflorum, Hook, f. 



17. Aristotclia fruticosa, Hook. f. 



18. Coprosma,-'' sp. with ciliated leaves. 



Beneath the dense portion of the above scrub grew very 

 few herbaceous plants and grasses, but, where thinnest, Aci- 

 phylla cohnsoi, Hook. f. ; Phormium cookianum, Le Jolis ; 

 Erechtitcs glabrescens, T. Kirk; Hierochloe aljnna, Ecera. and 

 Schl. ; Danthonia raoulii, Steud. ; various Epilohiums ; and 

 possibly many other plants either not growing under the pre- 

 sent living scrub or unnoticed by me (Plate XXXV.). 



Ferns were represented by Lomaria alpina, Spreng. ; 

 Lomaria jorocera, Spreng. ; and Hypolcpis ^millefolium, Hook. 



Where the height of the scrub is not stated above, the 

 average would be perhaps from 1 m. to 1-5 m. 



Seedlings under Unbuent Portion of Section A. 

 (1.) Under Phyllocladus. 



Aristotelia fruticosa, Hook. f. ; 0-07 m. in height. 



Coprosma jyarvifora, Hook. I. 



Olearia nummularifolia, Hook. f. 



Pittosporum rigidum. Hook. f. ; quite small : only deve- 

 loped to its fourth leaf. 



All these were growing m considerable quantity in the 

 decayed leaves and matted roots, which form a moist soil for 

 a depth of 0*06 m. 



(2.) Under Podocarpus nivalis. Hook. f. 

 Nil. 



(3.) Where Sunlight can partially penetrate. 

 Veronica canterhuriensis, J. B. Armst. 

 Gay a lyallii, Hook, and Jack. 

 Panax colensoi, Hook. f. . 



(4.) Where the Scrub is dying out with Old Age. 

 Panax colensoi, Hook. f. 

 Veronica canterhuriensis, J. B. x\rmst. 

 Dracophyllum longifolium, Br. 

 Veronica suhalpina, mihi (ined.). 

 Panax anomahim, Hook. f. 

 Many of these seedlings are 0-33 m. high. 



* This mav be a ciliated var. of Coprosma parviflora, Hook, f., as 

 indicated by Ctieeseman, or it may be quite possibly an undescribed 

 species. 



