172 General Remarks on the High Mountain Vegetation. 
‚is.the occurrence of the usually coastal Rhagodia nutans and Angelica geni- 
ie and the strongly xerophytic fern Gymnogramme rutaefolia. 
ne vegetation of limestone rocks, North Canterbury, contains amongst 
other species Asplemium obtusatum var. anomodum, Adiantum affıne, Clematis 
afoliata, Angelica Gingidium and Olcaria avicenniaefolia. Limestone in North 
Otago possesses a scanty vegetation of the Asplemiunn (as above), A. Hookeria- 
num, Epilobium cinereum, Anisotome Enysii and, in the shallow gullies the 
following FB inklah: — Cordyline australis, Discaria toumaton, Melicytus 
ramiflorus, Griselinia littoralis, Myoporum Gisnirh and Coprosma propingua. 
On dry rocks in the upper Clutha Valley (North-Otago district) are the 
ORDER _ Cheilanthes Sieberi, Agropyron scabrum, Scleranthus biflorus, 
. Rubus subpauperatus,. Carmichaelia compacta, Dranın Hymenanthera an- 
„ gustifolia var. APORR, Pimelea ee Myosotis albo-sericea and Veronica 
En pimeleoides.. ge 
Ehe öckiepetahich of the w., with its rain-forest eliasaa, differs in many 
> respects. from that of the E. On wet rocks in river gorges the following are 
% generally abun dant: =  Bpmenapksiium en Blechnum vnlcanicum, 
- ...Fove in 1 company with. ‚Gunnera albocarpa 
ter dep Sa oceurs. ni Water Be over rock. in some. re of. 
es Western distric 
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