138 POPULAR GEOGRAPHY OF PLANTS. 



36 of latitude/' and the Palm called the Cabbage-palm 

 (Areca oleracea) is said to extend even beyond 41 of lati- 

 tude. The now well-known name of New Zealand Flax 

 (Phormium tenax] must not be omitted, which grows no- 

 where else, except in Norfolk Island ; it belongs to the Lily 

 tribe, and grows in great tufts of long, tough, grass-like 

 leaves. 



Some of the flowers which are figured in the ' New Zea- 

 land Mora ' are very beautiful ; the most striking perhaps 

 amongst the herbaceous plants is one of the Composite 

 order, called Celmisia, which belongs to New Zealand in- 

 common with Australia and Tasmania. The conspicuous- 

 looking blossoms are like gigantic Daisies, about four inches 

 wide; the disc is yellow, with a broad, white, pink, or 

 purplish ray; the lower leaves are spreading, straight, and 

 grass-like, and generally covered with thick white wool un- 

 derneath. This plant grows often in immense patches on 

 the boggy mountain-tops in the southern part of the island. 



Peculiar as the vegetation of New Zealand is, Dr. Hooker 

 still finds sufficient resemblance between the flora of this 

 country, those of Australia and Tasmania, and the southern 

 part of South America, "the three great areas of land in 

 the Southern Hemisphere," to found a very interesting 



