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Senecio elaeagnifolius. The main feature of this association besides its erect 
habit is the mixture of forest and. scrub species. 
In the North-western. district Dacrydium intermedium is an important 
member of taxad-scrub at 600 m altitude and upwards. Flat, boggy ground, 
on certain Stewart Island hills, is covered with D. intermedium scrub, on the 
‚floor of which is prostrate D. Bidwilli. 
n) Dracophyllum serub. 
Dracophyllum longifolium, or allied species, may occur in such quantity in 
what would be otherwise Olearia-scrub as to give it a different facies. On dry 
mountains of the South Island D. uniflorum forms on stony ground a more or 
‚Fig. 66. Serub of Zeptospermum scoparium on Frazer Peaks, 5 of Stewart Tsland; on Sr where .- 7: 
extremely close it has era N ee after IE: Photo I Cockayne. 
less pure rather open scrub of a hroklich colour. It bu ac, and so is 
less in evidence than it was in the primitive vegetation. Veronica Traversii, | 
Species of Cassinia, Olearia cymbifolia, Podocarpus nivalis and eg se 
Ei ee (North-eastern district) may be associated plants. es 
= 9) Manuka (Leptospermum) serub. EN a 
This is chiefly a community of the ER Ka or montane belts. es 
differs but little from the allied lowland ass however, 
thanks to its tolerance of excessive wind through. its ee nie plasticity, it 
forms a belt at about 450 m altitude, or even lower (Fig. 66). "At first it i is mixed 
With certain forest shrubs, but it eventually becomes pure, much re ced in 
n and with bare stems. ‚and Kr head of twisted bran ches. 
