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unilaterale ; Lepiopteris superha ; Lycopodium scariosum ; and Andraa 
rupestris. 
(vii.) Tlio Sub-alpine zone, embracing an altitude of from 3500 to 
4500 feet, contains : Caltha Nova-Zelandia ; Aciphylla Colensoi ; Cel- 
misia spectabiUs ; Forstera Bidwillii ; Cyathodes empdrifolia ; Pcntachondra 
pumila; Myrsine nummularia; Veronica tetragona ; Ourisia (2), cmpitosa, 
and Colensoi-, Euphrasia (2), antardica, and revoluta ; Plantago (2), 
unifolia, and carnosa ; Fagus Cliffortioides ; Podocarpus nivalis ; Bacry- 
dium (2), Colensoi, and laxifolium ; Phyllocladus alpinus ; Caladenia 
Ufolia; Astelia linearis ; CartAa aJpirttf; CW acicularis ; Hmmm 
Jiliformis ; Agrostis (2), parviflora, var. perpusilla, and selifolia-, and 
Fsnea melaxantha. 
(viii.) The Alpine zone, or area, comprising an altitude of from 
4500 feet to the lino of permanent snow, contains: Ranunculus (2), 
insignis, and nivicola ; GVuw paniflorum ; Abrotanella pusilla ; Raoulia 
grandijlora ; Gnaphalium (Ilelichrysurn) Colensoi-, Senecio (2), rotundi- 
folius, and Bidwillii ; Eelophyllum Colensoi-, Dracophyllum recurvum-, 
Veronica nivalis; Brapdes Bieffenlachii ; Alepyrum pallidum ; Oredbolus 
pectinatus; Carex pyrenaica; TJhcima scabra-, Ehrharta Colensoi-, Cata- 
hrosa antardica; and Stereocaulon Colensoi. 
13. After all there are still several plants remaining unclassified, as 
to geographical distribution— habitat or altitude—not a few of which 
arc among the most noble and useful of all our vegetable productions. 
These have hitherto not been classed as to area or zone, from their being 
more or less ubiquitous. The principal of them will therefore have now 
to be briefly considered in throe seperatc divisions, viz., (i.) Plants 
common to the whole North Island ;—(ii.) Plants (unenumerated as to 
area or zone) not found in the South parts of the Island and, (iii.) 
Plants (also unenumerated as to area or zone) not found in the North 
parts of the Island.— 
(i.) Plants common to the whole Forth Island, among these the 
following may be noticed :— Cardamine hirsuta, in all soils and situations, 
to the alt. of 2500 feet. Elceocarpus dentatus ; Aristolelia racemosa ; 
Alectryon excelsum-, Dodoiuea viscosa ; Pelargonium clandestinum, from 
the sea coast to 2000 feet; Oxalis corniculala, in all soils from the sea 
to 2000 feet; O. Magellanica, from 500 to 5000 feet; Edwardsia grandi- 
flora, in all soils form the sea to 2500 feet; Coriaria ruscifolia , in all 
soils (but not in woods) from the sea to 3000 feet; Rulrus australis, in 
all soils from the sea to 2500 feet; A coma Sanguisorbre, in all soils from 
