332 . The Plant Formations of the High Mountains. 
Ranunculus Monroi var. dentatus (mountains of the Eastern district), Acaena 
znermis, A. microphylla‘), Viola Cunninghanit, Drapetes Dieffenbachti, Epilobium 
elegans, Hydrocotyle novae-zelandiae, Anisotome aromatica, Gaultheria depressa, 
Pernettya nana’), Dracophyllum unıflorum (dotted here and there and rising 
above the tussock), SZyphelia Colensot, Gentiana corymbifera (abundant in many 
places and very handsome with its numerous large white flowers raised on a 
‚stout peduncle 30 cm high), 'Myosotis australis (lowers yellow), Veronica pime- 
leoides var. minor (stony ground, flowers 'blue), Coprosma Petriei (forming a 
continuous turf of several square metres in extent), Celmisia discolor agg., 
Helichrysum_bellidioides, -Raoulia glabra, Cassinia Vauvilliersii, C. fulvida 
(these two latter dotted about or making patches), C. albida (North-eastern 
district) and = araxacum magellanicum. Festuca novae-zelandiae is easily dominant. 
2. ‚Red tussock (Danthonia Raoulii:) steppe. 
Volcanic Plateau. D. Raoulii steppe clothes much of the pummiee-scopid 
soil, as already described for shrub-steppe, on the Volcanic Plateau where forest 
is wanting at an altitude of 9—1200 m. The tussocks, some 75 cm high, are 
usually a metre or more apart, but in places they touch. Celmisia longifolia 
var. gracılenta (silvery in colour) is abundant. Erect, dark-coloured, fastigiate 
bushes, of Dracophyl um subulatum, 45 cm high, affect the general physiognomy. 
"There are also circular mats of Coprosma depressa, cushions go cm in diam. 
fc b ls, the small but beautiful Euphrasia tricolor , | 
glau Celmisia ia glandulosa, bluish-green patches of PeriiTonde 
“ Pumila, Gaultheria ‚depressa, “ ee Styphelia Fraseri, S. Colensoi, Dan- 
 thon var. setifolia, Poa anceps, Hierochloe Fedoleis, A 
‚scabrum, Poa caespitosa and beein fastigiatum. 
gi ET IRR Egmont. The vegetation above the scrub-line is le up. of ’ 
er grasses, herbs, shrubs and mosses. Herb, grass or moss may dominate in 
e: and portions of the plant-covering might with propriety bed t 
/ herb-field or fell-field according to whether closed o or Fa, ‚Here on acc, 
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