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DUN MOUNTAIN LINE 



NAMES OF TREES AND LARGER SHRUBS. 



(By l*\ 0, Gibbs.) 



hie beech family 



The beech forest Uirougli which the 

 i; m , ,,; >^es is composed lor the must 

 (iarl rx vo species. Nolhotagus fusca 

 ( he large, touting beech) and Notho* 

 lagus truncata (the clinker beech) to- 

 mUui with hybrids betwwn them. 

 Knth spev.es have leaves about an itieii 

 l„ fl tf. but the clinker's haves have 

 ,„i,rh shorter, blunter teeth MM the 

 !.,, of the leaf is rounded with a few 

 short tei tn. N. fusca has much more 

 dieepll CU( teeth and the Mp of the hat 

 18 panV.ed, NothotaguS Menzitsii itle- 

 .Ivcr beech) is fortt niet v.ith near the 

 Thini !h us - Clearing and is thereafter 

 fairly plei UN. The leaves arc oblong, 

 half' an inch or less long, thick and 

 v. .Iisln d. frith numerous short teVth. 

 TfaS whitish bark of the trunk is mark- 

 ed with horizontal hands. Notholagus 

 Selamterl (the entire leaved beech) 

 ^rows chiefly in the valley bottoms, but 

 s:\eral specimens occur near Second 

 House (iullv. ft has thin oblong 

 leaves about half an inch long or less 

 and bo teeth. Notholagus cliffortioides 



(the mountain beech) has leaves some- 

 what like those of the previous species, 

 but thicker atd more triangular and 

 poiuted. This is the only beech to lie 

 IV Mind close to the line just before < it 

 -mcr^»s from the bush on to the Mine- 

 ral Belt. NoUiofagus apiculata, of 

 vhi.h (here is a good specimen just 



itboVe the hue u\ the beginning of the 

 Third House clearing is almost certain- 

 Is ffA B title species, but merely a 

 !,vbrid bet wei 'u Nothofagus Solanderi 

 [which it closely resembles) and Otteof 

 the toothed species, for it has the So 

 limderi loaf with a few minute teeth. 

 Ii should be specially noted that the 



kamahi.' which is perhaps the com- 

 mones tree of all in the immediate 

 miejihoiu-hood of the line, is not a 

 beech although it is generally called 



ie.l lurch" by bushmen. It has tooth- 

 glj le.ives nsmdlv much larger than 

 i hose of any beech, and racemes ot 

 (lower* resembling those of the koro- 

 miko. Tt will be referred to later as 

 Wcimuunnia racemosa. The heath, 

 (iaultherin antipoda, has ha\es like N. 

 Mcn^iesii and is Dltec mistaken for a 

 beech, but the brarchlets are .oveT.^l 

 u ;th soft brown scah s 



THE CONIFER FAMILY 



No examples of iniro, matai, kahi- 

 katca or true totara are to be found, 

 although specimens of the two latter 

 ..ccui- near the road in the Thook Stre€v 

 Valley. In several <>f the gullies along 

 the line, the well known drooping 

 fah'age qI the nmu. Dacrydium cupres* 

 sinum, <an he observed. Near Coad's 

 Cri ck at the end of the bush the hand 

 some dark foliage of the mountain 

 ptne Dacrydtum Bidwillii, will be s- t n. 



he blanches generally bearing; two 

 ertirely distinct kinds of leaves, one 

 set scale iike. closely appressed to the 

 hranchlets and the others yew b.ke. Tn 

 fl )a<es on the Mineral Th-lt, «q>ecial1y 

 on the Dun Mountain, occurs the small 

 fst pine fo the wr-rhl. Dacrydium laxi« 

 folium. Which wit!i its minute leaves 

 sometimes straggles along the groin 4 

 for a (O04 OT niere, hoi niay come to 

 ma'.nrity and beat ftHl! wht« "uly an 

 IliCh two high The true bTnra 

 with its K°od timber and coarse atrirgy 

 bark does not seem to grow anywhere 

 dfartg th€ line, but its worthless rela- 

 Podocarpus Hallii. with thin 

 oaoery bark often r-sembling that of 

 the fuchsia and thak. sharp pointed 

 haves often OtBT an inch long, is fair 

 h olentiful. The al}.ine totara, Podo- 

 QMUS nivalis, with much shorter blunt 

 er leaves and ge.rerally a mere bush 

 ?i ragglmg along the around is found in 

 a few places on the Mineral Belt 

 N'ear Coed's Cre.k and on the higher 

 Uopes of the Wooded Peak, is found the 

 South Island cedar. Libocedrus Bid^ 

 willii, generally, like the mountain pnie, 

 bearing two kinds of foliage, but 

 rasily Vecoeniswl by a straight tapering 

 stern' bearing brown l»ark which comes 

 t, fa l, n- strips. Phyllocladus alpinus 

 [tlie monntsit toatoa) grows plentifQi 



,x near and also on the Mineral Belt. 



What apnear n be its thick wood) 

 leaves nrt really fetiOBOd bramhlcts. 



