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SUBANTARCnC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 



[Ecological Botany. 



heads, rise up in hundreds. The bright-green drooping leaves of Poa foliosa and 

 the brownish ones of Carex appressa are scattered through the whole. Isolated 

 plants, or colonies, of Stilbocarpa polaris, their great round hairy leaves bright 

 vivid-green in colour, abound. Pleurophyllum criniferum raises up its immense 



Fio. 16. — I'leuTophyllvm crinifenim in Bloom and Bid, Adams iBi^iNU, Aicklanh Gitoup. 



leaves in great abundance, and its flowering-stems Ij m. tall (fig. 16). Blackish 

 patches of the fern Polystichum veslitum add a contrast to the prevailing greens. 

 Here and there at first, but higher up the slope in great quantity, are the orange- 

 coloured blossoms of Bulbinella. 



