TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER VI. 
THE STORY OF THE GRASSLANDS. 
General remarks—Samuel Butler’s opinion of New Zealand flowers—Distri- 
bution of the grassland—Classification of the grassland—Composition 
and distribution of low tussock-grassland—tThe silver-tussock and hard- 
tussock associations—Statistics regarding the growth-forms of low 
tussock-grassland—List of species of low tussock-grassland—The “‘ stupid 
gentian ’—Shrubs of the grassland—The dwarf brooms—The spaniard 
—Drought-resisting structure of many low tussock-grassland plants— 
Evolution of low tussock-grassland—Tall tussock-grassland—The growth- 
form of the red-tussock—Appearance and constituents of certain tall 
tussock-grassland associations—The Danthonia australis association— 
Tussock-grassland from the economic aspect—The question of burning 
—A valuable tall tussock 
CHAPTER VII. 
THE FLORA AND VEGETATION OF THE HIGH MOUNTAINS. 
General remarks—Statistics dealing with the alpine and lowland floras— 
Genera peculiar to, or common in, the high mountains—Latitudinal 
distribution of the high-mountain flora—-The alpine dwellers of Te 
Moehau—From Mount Hikurangi to Egmont and the Tararuas—-Dis- 
tribution in the South Island—tThe altitudinal belts of vegetation and 
their limits—Conditions of life for the high-mountain plant inhabitants 
—Adaptations of the high-mountain plants—The flowers of the high 
mountains—-The eyebrights, ourisias, buttercups, forget-me-nots, 
celmisias, and edelweiss—High-mountain rock plant-associations—The 
rock-veronicas—The vegetable-sheep—Associations of stony debris— 
A jet-black daisy—Fell-field—The coral-broom-——Plants of the Mineral 
Belt—Herb-field—Flowers of Mount Egmont—The subalpine scrub— 
Shrubby veronicas and tree-daisies—High-mountain plants at sea-level 
—Winter coloration 
CHAPTER VIII. 
PLANT-COMMUNITIES AND PLANTS or INLAND WATERS, SWAMPS, 
AND Bogs. 
General remarks—The water-ferns—Azolla rubra—The pond-weeds—The 
water-milfoil—Changes in swamp wrought by man—Fresh-water algae— 
Algae of hot-water springs—Definition of term ‘‘ swamp ’’—Species and 
growth-forms of swamp—Conditions for plant-life in swamp—The root 
of Phormiwm tenax—Breathing-roots of the pukatea—Relations of swamp 
to other plant-formations—Vegetation of swamps—Swamp of Auckland 
—Special South Island swamp-plants—Bogs—Sphagnum moss and its 
peculiarities—Dryness of [sphagnum-cushions—Origin and distribution 
of bogs—Life-conditions for hbog-plants—Growth-forms of bog-plants— 
The species growing in bogs—Some bog associations—Sundews and 
bladderworts—The species of Gunnera—The false snow-grass (Schoenus 
pauciflorus) plant-association. 
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