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like flowers (Swainsona novae-zelandiae) ; great woolly mats of Haastia 
recurva; and a fleshy-leaved lobelia (L. Roughiz). A piripiri, too 
(Acaena glabra), is frequently confined to this peculiar station. These 
plants do not grow closely side by side; they are few and far 
between, and without close observation the slopes look quite bare. 
Occasionally a trailing - veronica (V. epacridea) sprawls over the 
stones, and it is frequently accompanied by a smaller species of 
the whipcord form, V. lycopodioides, while the semi-whipcord koro- 
miko, V. tetrasticha, may also be present. 
Ranunculus crithmifolius, a rare buttercup found sparingly in the North-eastern 
Botanical District, and then considerably to the south on the Mount 
Arrowsmith Range (Canterbury). 
Trans, N.Z, Inst.] [After Laing. 
In the North-eastern Botanical District, in addition to the above, 
there are the rock-bluebell (Wahlenbergia cartilaginea), a plant rather 
like a European crusty saxifrage ; the greyish Raoulia cinerea ; and a 
convolvulus (Convolvulus fractosaxosa). In the western mountains 
of the South Island there are woolly mats of Haastia Sinclairii, and, 
confined to northern Westland, Veronica Haastii var. macrocalyz. fs 
A vegetable-sheep of the largest dimensions, Haastia pulvinaris, 
grows on the shingle-slips of the North-eastern Botanical District, 
