240 The Plant Formations of the High Mountains. 
 E. zealandica, Plantago Browniü, Coprosma repens, Wahlenbergia albomarginata, 
Forstera sedifolia, F. Bidwillii, Craspedia (one < or other of the species), Senecio 
bellidioides and Tararacum magellanicum. 
\it a variable altitude, but say at about ı200 m, the vegetation changes 
and the alpine belt begins. The principal sign is the appearance of great 
mats of the stiff-leaved Ce/misia viscosa and the rather thin-leaved C. Haastüü. 
The ground in many places is extremely stony being really consolidated shingle- 
‚slip. Several small cushion-plants are characteristic of these stony stations, 
e.g. — Lusula pumila and its allies, Myosotis pulvinaris (s—ıo cm in diam.), 
Veronica pulvinaris (North-western to Eastern district), V. ciliolata (local in the 
Nortir-western and Eastern districts), Phyllachne clavigera, P. Colensoi, Celmisia 
ee and Raoulia grandiflora (see Plate L, Fig. 75). ; 
s play a considerable part in the formation at all altitudes. The 
tussocks already mentioned, Danthonia semiannularis var. setifolia, Poa Lind- 
sapi (a plant. of ‚the nagsa RR. Poa Colensoi and 2. intermedia are the 
most isn, u : 
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Re The wet mountains. 
On: üe wet uounkaine) of both Islands fell-hield is aloe confined to Hr 
alpine belt. Such herb-field ag as can tolerat open BIRD and a snow- # 
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