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native pepper, Piper excelsum, was fairly common and the whole was 
entwined with endless Supple Jacks (Ahipogonum scandens), while I 
saw at least five varieties of tree ferns, ea dealbata, C, 
medullaris, C. Cunninghamii, Dicksonia antarctica and D. squarrosa, 
and a few Raphiostyles sapida dotted about. The floor of the forest 
is covered with moss and lichens especially on the dead stumps, while . 
filmy and other ferns abound. We also visited a sphaguum bog 
close by and obtained a bag of moss for packing up the plants, 
The sphaguum patches were colonized by several plants, chiefl 
Gleichenia dicarpa and some Pteris esculenta, and I was et: 
Pratia angulata, so lovely on moist rockeries at home, Some 
gigantea, and these I found about the shrubberies ; in form they are 
very different to the mature trees, the leaves being larger and 
Lees with downy hairs while the stems are of a reddish-purple 
colour 
Mr. W. Jacobs, who volunteered to accompany me. It ha see 
15 parts during the day, and the next morning broke thick and 
foggy, delaying our start, but we got away on horseback about 
9 a.m. and travelled south, our destination being Mr. Blyth’s place, 
about 15 miles off. The track, for there are no roads, lay over 
the higher country, undulating and boggy with occasionally a 
deep ravine through which flowed 2 small river considerably swollen 
by the rains. The country over which we passed was covered 
with Pteris esculenta (the Bracken fern) some Phormium tenaz, 
up to their hocks in the peat. After some time we came across 
Olearia semidentata in full flower ; it is a beautiful sight, covered 
with its purple daisy flowers like a glorified Michaelmas Daisy ; the 
ray florets are li mauve and the centre is a dark purple. 
Masses of plants were to be seen, the largest being about 3-4 ft. 
high, and in places where patches had been burnt seedlings were 
coming up in thousands. I endeavoured to photograph some of 
them. but it was most difficult in the wind and fog. A peculiar 
kind of rush-like grass, Lepyrodia Traversii, seems to grow in 
association with Olearia semidentata and greatly helps to harden 
the bog and make it easier to walk about on. The beautiful 
