New Zealand plants and their story . nervedcudweed {Gnaphalium trinerve) and the rock-cudweed {G. Lyallii),the latter to be distinguished from the former by its larger is also abundance of the clinging climbing-rata {Metrosiderosscandens). Another cudweed {Gnaphalium keriense) occurs on volcaniccoastal rocks of Taranaki. It is accompanied by an unnamed veronicaallied to F. Cookiana, a thick-leaved prostrate form of the shore-lobelia {Lobelia anceps), an unnamed grass, and the fine thick-leavedrosettes of a variety of the New Zealand plantain {Plantago Raoidii). One of the most rem
New Zealand plants and their story . nervedcudweed {Gnaphalium trinerve) and the rock-cudweed {G. Lyallii),the latter to be distinguished from the former by its larger is also abundance of the clinging climbing-rata {Metrosiderosscandens). Another cudweed {Gnaphalium keriense) occurs on volcaniccoastal rocks of Taranaki. It is accompanied by an unnamed veronicaallied to F. Cookiana, a thick-leaved prostrate form of the shore-lobelia {Lobelia anceps), an unnamed grass, and the fine thick-leavedrosettes of a variety of the New Zealand plantain {Plantago Raoidii). One of the most remarkable plant-associations of New Zealandis that combination of shrubs, &c., growing on Rangitoto Island,in the Hauraki Gulf. The soil is entirely composed of huge blocksof scoria. There is apparently no water, but, of course, a sufficiencythere must be. All the same, there is not enough, as a rule, forthe shrubs and other plants to assume their usual the barren dwelling-place, 180 species at least of. cS f* S**—Pl;ints
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