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The Shrubs and Herbaceous Plants of 
New Zealand. 
By F. W. ANDREWS. 
Reap Berore tHe Natorat History anp GEOLOGICAL SECTION, 
January 257TH, 1907. 
After a somewhat lengthy account of the acclimatized plants, 
some of which, favoured by new environment, are noxious whilst 
many are pests, I will proceed to the true natives of the soil, and 
endeavour briefly to give a word picture of a New Zealand bush 
scene, of the swamp plants, and of the vegetation of the more open 
country, together with details of typical forms. 
My observation will be generally confined to the neighbour- 
hood of Cook Strait and the North Marlborough Sounds. I have 
followed generally the nomenclature of Hooker’s Flora of 1864, the 
only work available to me at the time of writing. It was prepared 
from dried specimens, sent from various sources to Kew. 
The nearest approach to the low bush isa well laid out and 
tastefully mixed evergreen shrubbery in an English park; but even 
that cannot compare favourably with a vista of New Zealand bush. 
It is computed that there are 1,400 flowering plants; of these 
two-thirds are found nowhere else in the world. 
New Zealand bush is essentially evergreen, and very distinct 
from the shadeless and interminable Eucalpytus and Mimosa Bush 
of Australia, as the latter presented itself to me. 
Take a general view of a particular strip of bush in Queen 
Charlotte Sound. From high water mark the gently sloping hills 
are clad in a dense green mantle of shrubs and trees rising in 
perpetual verdure to the summit of the highest peak, 4,000 feet. 
