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nummularifolium, Montia fontana, Gunnera monoica the red-berried 

 form well worthy of the rock garden, Galium tenuicaule, Mazus 

 pumileo, Gratiola peruviana a fifth Fuegian, Triglochin striatum, 

 Mentha Cimninghamii, Cotula coronopifolia, Pratia angulata, Pratia 

 perpusilla, Lobelia anceps, Oxalis corniculata, and Spiranthes australis. 



On barren crowns, arid edges, and driest of dry flats subsisted plants 

 such as cabbage- tree (Cordyline australis), Gnaphalium several species, 

 Celmisia longifolia, Pimelea Isevigata, Cyathodes acerosa, Leucopogon 

 fasciculatus, Leucopogon Frazeri, Leptospermum scoparium, Pomaderris 

 phylicsefolia, Echinopogon ovatus, Orthoceras strictum, 

 and Microtis porrifolia. 



At a later period, when the power of the bracken was 

 broken, many of these plants, as will be shown, left 

 their cliffs and deserts and rushed like eager settlers on 

 the newly-opened land. 



Of the sixty thousand acres of Tutira, fifty-eight, 

 when the station was first stocked, were under bracken, 

 less than fifteen hundred in forest and woodland, less than 

 five hundred in marsh, less than twenty-five in upland 

 meadow, cliff, river-bed, desert, and brims of stagnant 

 creeks. Had, in fact, a narrow slice been shorn from 

 the extreme west and another from the extreme east, 

 Tutira would have been actually what it was for all 

 practical purposes one vast unbroken sheet of fern. 

 Appended are the names of species noted on the station. 

 I believe that few of the more insignificant plants have been overlooked, 

 but since it is the nature of the writer of this volume to care for small 

 plants rather than trees and shrubs, the list of the latter may not be quite 

 complete. 



LIST OF NATIVE PLANTS ON TUTIKA. 



Cabbage Tree. 



Ranunculacece. 



Clematis indivisa. 

 it hexasepala. 

 it Colensoi. 

 it fcetida. 

 ii parviflora. 

 Ranunculus hirtus. 



it rivularis. 

 n insignis. 



Magnoliacece. 



Drimys axillaris. 



Cruciferce. 



Nasturtium palustre. 

 Cardamine hirsuta. 



Violariece. 



Viola Cunninghamii. 

 Melicytus ramiflorus. 



