Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . r, (like all other things,) havetheir drawbacks or opposites: the worst feature here was thevery bad footing, causing much tumbling about and splashingand sinking, between slippery and hidden rotting roots andbranches, into deep black vegetable mud up to ones knees; andthen there was the haunting fear of some accident happening,through which I should not bo able to get out of this tangledlabyrinth ; and, as a matter of course, in that distant and un-frequented spot, should not be easily or early found, if everfound at all! 2. As to th
Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . r, (like all other things,) havetheir drawbacks or opposites: the worst feature here was thevery bad footing, causing much tumbling about and splashingand sinking, between slippery and hidden rotting roots andbranches, into deep black vegetable mud up to ones knees; andthen there was the haunting fear of some accident happening,through which I should not bo able to get out of this tangledlabyrinth ; and, as a matter of course, in that distant and un-frequented spot, should not be easily or early found, if everfound at all! 2. As to the very peculiar growth of some tree-ferns, caused by * Originally discovered in the mountainous woods of the interior, Lake Waikarc, in 18il, and published in 1812 in the TasmanianJournal of Natural Science, vol. i., p. 67S ; also vol. ii., p. 183. t See Trans. Inst., vol. xviii., p. 284. J Since ascertained to be such: a description of this plant will also begiven in a paper to follow. Icansaiimns f Etu |[0a{anb Jnstiluta^ Vol. XIX., Pi. -f SKETCH (UMfltfimD OF^ FERN Tf^EE fCYATHE^ DEALBATA.)E/fCmCLED Iff GROWTH BY /^ PAffAX ^HBOftEUJD!. t. OoLENSO.—On the Tree-Ferm of New Zealand. 267 their oivn epiphytes.—Some novel instances of this nature I haveoccasionally met with, a few of them being very strange. (1.) I have already said tree-ferns are often found withyoung plants of Weinmannia (sps.), and of Panax nrborea,springing from their stocks at some distance above the trees also grow to a considerable size—of 3, 5 and 7 feet,and are well-branched and flourishing, although their roots donot reach down to the earth. A few of them, however, of amuch larger size, 14-16 feet high, that I have seen andexamined, send down their trunks (I can hardly term them roots)from the place where they had sprung from seed on the stockof the fern-tree into the ground, (sometimes in two or threebranches or ramifications,) closely adhering to the fern-tree andpa
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