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NEW ZEALAND PLANTS. 
CHAPTER III. 
Tue FLorRA AND VEGETATION OF THE SEA-COAST. 
General remarks—Statistics regarding the flora—Inland plants on the coast 
—Salt and succulence—The ice-plant and other succulents—Growth- 
forms of coastal plants—Muehlenbeckia Astoni—A coastal climbing-plant 
—Seaweeds—The sea-grasses—Sandy and rocky shores—Sandhills, their 
plants and plant-associations—Sand-binders—The spiny rolling-grass— 
Plants of sand-hollows—The mangrove and its strange habits—Salt- 
swamps—Salt-meadows—Peaty salt-meadow—Vegetation of rocks and 
cliffs—The pohutukawa—Phormium associations—Coastal shrubberies— 
Coastal forest—The kohekohe—The home of the tuatara and of a New 
Zealand frog—The wind-swept Open Bay Islands 
CHAPTER IV. 
THE STORY OF THE FORESTS. 
General remarks—Distribution of the forest—Composition of the forest— 
Two classes of forest—Special characteristics of rain-forest—The kohe- 
kohe—Origin of special forest-plants—Climbing-plants—Scramblers— 
The climbing-apparatus of the bush-lawyers — Root-climbers— The 
climbing-ratas — Climbing-ferns—- Winding lianes—The mangemange— 
A leaf yards in length—Explanation of the term “spore ”—Tendril- 
climbers—The species of Clematis—Perching-plants—Seedling trees as 
perching-plants—Filmy ferns—The flowers of the forest—Pollination— 
The kauri forest—Life-history of a kauri forest—Mixed taxad forest— 
Westland taxad forest—Kahikatea swamp-forest—Southern-beech forest 
—Lowland southern-beech forest—Identification of the southern- 
beeches 
CHAPTER V. 
LowLaAnD SHRUB-ASSOCIATIONS, HEATH, AND Rock VEGETATION. 
New Zealand shrubs in general—Relationship between the shrub form and 
the tree form—The ramarama—FPersistent juvenile forms—Statistics 
regarding juvenile forms—The case of Pennantia—The behaviour of the 
kowhai—The pokaka, the mountain-currant, and koromikos in general 
—What experiment can do—The dwelling-places of the manuka—Manuka 
thicket—Tuberous-rooted orchids—Plants of the Auckland gumlands— 
The pumice shrublands—The new vegetation after a volcanic eruption 
—Manuka thicket of the South Island—‘“ Wind-scrub ’”—River-terrace 
scrub—Fern-heath—Rock-plants in general—Species common on rocks 
—Rock association of the East Cape Botanical District—The cliffs of 
the Wanganui River—The Olearia insignis association—Rock association 
of Banks Peninsula—A remarkable case of plant-distribution 
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