LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Frontispiece—Tussocks of subantarctic poa (Poa litorosa). 
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. The mountain-lily (Ranunculus Lyallit). 
. The giant forget-me-not (Myosotidium nobile). 
. The pygmy pine (Dacrydium laxifolium). 
The white clematis (Clematis indivisa). 
. The Rey. William Colenso, F.R.S. 
Memorial to Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, O.M., F.R.S., K.C.8.1. 
. Tree-ferns (Hemitelia Smithii). 
. Persistent juvenile form of the common kowhai. 
. Entanglement formed by the supplejack (Rhipogonum scandens). 
. The wild-irishman (Discaria towmatou). 
. Effect of wind and “sour” soil on the growth-form of the manuka 
(Leptospermum scoparium). 
. Stream undermining a migratory river-bed association. 
. Low tussock-grassland, a climax plant-formation. 
. The Australian glasswort (Salicornia australis). 
. The shrubby pohuehue (Muehlenbeckia Astoni). 
. Cushion form of the pohuehue (Muehlenbeckia compleaa). 
. The sand-convolvulus (Calystegia Soldanella). 
. A wandering dune which has buried good agricultural land. 
. Natural fore-dune near Waikanae. 
. The erect breathing-roots of the mangrove (A vicennia officinalis). 
. A pohutukawa (Metrosideros tomentosa) growing as an erect bushy tree. 
. Flowering shoot of the teteaweka (Olearia angustifolia). 
. Interior of coastal scrub, Stewart Island. 
. Kohekohe (Dysoxylum spectabile) coastal forest. 
. Gully in a mountain southern-beech (Nothofagus cliffortioides) forest. 
. Lichens (species of Sticia). 
. The kahakaha (Astelia Solandri) growing on the vertical trunk of the 
taraire. 
. Climbing-stem of the semi-leafless lawyer (Rubus subpawperatus). 
. Rounded buttresses at base of trunk of a kahikatea (Podocarpus dacrydiodes). 
- Roots of the broadleaf (Griselinia littoralis) descending from a young broad- 
leaf tree perched in the crown of a tall rimu (Dacrydiwm cupressinum). 
. Interior of the Waipoua Kauri Forest. 
. The giant moss (Dawsonia swperba). * 
. Interior of a rain-forest, showing the abundance of ferns. 
. Taxad rain-forest of the Puketoi Range. 
. The prickly shield-fern (Polystichum vestitum). 
. Pahau-tea (Libocedrus Bidwillii) subalpine forest. 
- Moss cushion of Dicranoloma Billardieri. 
