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only a few lichens and mosses (Fig. 460). Only by the waterside does 

 the vegetation become somewhat more luxuriant, without however excelling 



Fig. 460. Montane region of the South Island of New Zealand, at 900 meters above sea-level. 

 In the beech-forest (Fagus cliffortioides). The underwood formed of young beech. From a 

 photograph by Cockayne. 



that of our Central European rain-forest (Fig. 459). Lianes and the higher 

 epiphytes are entirely absent. 



