Dec., 1923] CAMPBELL-AUSTRALASIAN BOTANICAL NOTES 523 
Other characteristic shrubs and small trees were several shrubby Com- 
positae (Senecio, Olearia), Melicytus, Elaeocarpus, Pennantia, Panax, and 
several others. To me the most interesting tree was Fuchsia excorticata , 
one of three New Zealand species of this characteristically South American 
and Mexican genus. It is a small tree, with smooth, reddish bark and 
Text Fig. 3. Beech-forest interior. The fern is Polystichum vestitum. Photo¬ 
graphed by Mr. W. D. Reid. 
typical Fuchsia leaves and flowers, so that one recognized it at a glance. 
Podocarpus dacrydioides and Dacrydium cupressinum are quite common, and 
in the low ground is an interesting tree, Laurelia Novae Zealandeae , which 
has highly developed buttress roots functioning as pneumatophores. 
Across the harbor from Wellington is a forest very different from the 
rain-forest in the immediate vicinity of the town. This is an almost pure 
stand of two_species of beech, Nothofagus fusca and N. Solanderi. The 
