TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I. 
How THE PLANTS HAVE TOLD THEIR STORY. 
How the plants are made to “tell their story ’”’—Banks and Solander— 
Banks’s love of natural history—-The Forsters, father and son—Cook’s 
second voyage—Why Banks did not accompany Cook—Menzies— 
Dumont D’Urville and Richard—‘ Essai d’une Flore de la Nouvelle . 
Zélande ’’—The Cunninghams and the plant-life of northern Auckland 
—Raoul, the French botanist—The Rey. William Colenso—Colenso’s 
discovery of alpine plants on the Ruahine Mountains—The wonderful 
work of Sir Joseph Hooker—Darwin’s remarks on Hooker’s work—The 
botanical exploration of the Southern Alps—Sinclair, Bidwill, Haast, 
Hector, and Buchanan—Lyall, surgeon on the “ Acheron ”—The botanical 
exploration of the Chatham Islands by H. H. Travers and F. A. D. Cox 
—Modern New Zealand botany and Thomas Kirk—Cheeseman’s “‘ Manual 
of the New Zealand Flora ’’—D. Petrie and the flora of Otago—-The 
plants still telling their story 
CHAPTER II. 
Some PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING VEGETATION AND 
Livine PLAnts. 
Special botanical interest of New Zealand—Changes wrought by the European 
settler—Explanation of the term “ flora ”—What is meant by the term 
** vegetation ’—Definition of the expression “‘ plant-community ’”—Some 
plant-communities of a farm—The plant-formation and the plant- 
association—Explanation of the term “ growth-form ”—Some character- 
istic New Zealand growth-forms—More about growth-forms—Plasticity 
in plants—Effect of change in outer circumstances on the manuka— 
Stimuli and their effect in changing form —Natural changes in a plant- 
community — Topographical and biological succession— Climax and 
migratory formations—The struggle for existence—The growing-place 
of a plant—The meaning of the term “adaptation ”’—Adaptations with 
regard to the water-supply a af 
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