100 BOTANY 
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T, L- Lancaster, photo 
Note the broadleaf growing as an epiphyte on the iniddle tree and throwing 
down a slender root to the soil. 
makes the beech forests of the South a blaze of scarlet, 
is a parasite, while the Northern rata often germinates 
and begins life as an epiphyte high up in the fork of 
