276 The Vegetation of the Subantaretis Islands. 
the RER afford, are mats of Coprosma repens together with Nertera depressa 
Epilobium linnaeoides, E. confertifolium and ERRETR bellidioides var. 
Prostratum. 
places, tussocks without trunks grow so close together that their teayd: 
' mingle and the yellow mass, waving in the breeze, looks like a field of ripe 
‚ corn. But such an apparently pure association, on the Lord Auckland’s, may 
‚conceal a wiry undergrowth of Coprosma foetidissima, C. cuneata and C. parvi- 
fora. When the ground becomes wetter, the tussocks are further apart and 
there is space for other smaller grasses and many of the smaller herbaceous 
_ plants, especially: — Carpha alpina (Lord Auckland’s), the endemic Zierochloe 
runonis, Deschampsia Chapmani, Agrostis magellanica, Calamogrostis setifoha, 
Chrysobactron Rossi, Ranunculus finguis, the endemic Acaena, Epilobium 
confertifolium, E. Fee laden Celmisia vernicosa‘) and Dobkesiem bellidioides 
var. Prostratum. 
Er: Herb-moor.. 
z  Herb-moor is dabei) by the dominance of other herbaceous growth- 
forms than tussock which, if not absent, plays a quite subordinate part. It may 
be divided into the two associations 7a/! and low herb- -moor, the former 
lowland and not. strongly xerophytic and the latter subalpine and xerophytic. 
ne Zah. herb-moor,  formerly named by me Pleurophyllum meadow, occurs 
in its. RSS luxuriance on the shores of Karnleg Harbour, and, in a more 
en modified form form, on the slo; »ointment Island and in mol Island. 
. ‚All its members are Present in one or other of the formations, but here the 
array of stately herbs with immense leaves and, in some cases, masses of 
owy flowers, are gathered together, so that the glory of nearly all the ; 
magnificent endemie“ species can be seen at a glance. “Fairchild’s garden” 
A. the most striking. example of the association, situated on a sloping piece 
of g und on Adams Island near the Western re, and to that Euer. s 
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