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SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 



[Ecoldf/iciiJ Biilinii/. 



heads, rise up in luiiidreds. The bright-green drooping leaves of Port folinsa and 

 the brownish ones of Carex appressa are scattered through the whole. Isolated 

 plants, or colonies, of Stilbocarpa polaris, their great round hairy leaves bright 

 vivid-green in colour, abound. PleurophyUum crinifenmi raises up its immense^ 



Fir,. 16.— /'/>„, „^,A,,.,, 



.jeniiii i.\ Br.noM ,\xi> BiTi, Adams Isi,am>, Ai-cklaxh Gnorp. 



leaves in great abundance, and its flowering-stems 1^ m. tall (fig. 16). Blackish 

 patches of the fern Polystichum vestitum add a contrast to the prevailing greens. 

 Here and there at first, but higher up the slope in great quantity, are the orange- 

 coloured blossoms of Bidhinella. 



