the mountains and in the valleys , here and there intersected by the 
light-green stripes of fern-trees shooting up luxuriantly ; wherever 
a small stream of springwater may he flowing through the wood. 
Kauri-Woods on Manukau Harbour, 
As the coarse-grained micaceous granite is interspersed by 
fine-grained light-coloured veins , so the fern-trees with their soft, 
dawsy, light-green bushes streak the dusky Kauri woods. 
Ilochstetter, New Zealand. 10 
