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against the native vegetation, although cattle have been constantly wandering 
over the place ever since the first settlement of the district. Across the area 
examined I found the line of the old high road still quite plainly traceable, 
but even here the native plants held their own. Except in the neighbourhood 
of this track the surface had only been broken in one place, where a ditch had 
been formed, On the clay ridges thrown up on either side of this, that bright 
looking fern Pteris scaberula had established itself plentifully, but this was the 
only native plant that appeared to have been introduced as a consequence of 
the disturbance of the ground. The subsoil of the area is a not very stiff clay, 
through which, at a depth of from two to about ten feet, the prevailing gravel 
of the district could be reached. The ground is disposed in two terraces, that 
nearest to the creek being only a few feet lower than the other. So far as I 
could determine, there was absolutely no difference in vegetation between the 
terraces. The prevailing feature was snow-grass in huge tussocks, around the 
roots of which, hidden under the over-arching grass, the majority of the 
smaller plants obtainable were clustered. The immediate banks of the creek 
I did not explore so carefully as the tussock ground. Mr. Kirk has obliged 
me with the following list of the plants gathered :— : 
NATIVE PLANTS. 
Ranunculus sinclairii. Gaultheria ———? 
plebeius ? Plantago spath: lata. 
Geranium microphyllum. Scler: us biflorus, 
Acæna sanguisor Peeni vil cole 
», nove-zealandie Potamogeton Posen 
Halor, crantha, Juncus effusus (co; of Meyer). 
Myrtus pedune Slika. F p 
Epilobium alsinoides. 
Ka pallidiflorum Luzula congesta ? 
a tenuicaule Car 5 ga 
a virgata, >» forste: 
Celmisia longifolia Eleocharis 
Lagenophora forsteri. Hierochloe redolens. 
R petiolata, Danth gh. 
Craspedia fimbriata. 
Cassinia fulvida. r Deschampsia c cwespitosa. 
Gnaphalium filicaule. a — 7 mt 
55 uteo-album. Poa bre 
involucratum Pteris scabersls, 
Microseris forsteri. Lomaria procera. 
Taraxacum dens-leonis. pin, 
Wahlenbergia paie Campylopus appres ET ERE 
INTRODUCED PLANT 
Cerastium empereein- umex pookosedls, 
Trifolium Aira caryophyllea. 
Prunella vul aac. Holcus lanatus. 
Mr. Kirk calls attention to the fact that of these plants the following are 
not mentioned either by Dr. Lindsay or Mr. Buchanan as occurring in this 
province, viz. :— 
Haloragis micrantha.—This I found growing around the tussocks of snow- 
grass, and generally almost hidden by them. 
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