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Title: Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: New Zealand Institute
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Wellington : J. Hughes, Printer
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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autiful Angelica rosaefolia, usually on river cliff-faces. On the river-flats a variety of Sophora tetraptera is seen, with nume-rous trunks springing from or below the ground, the branches having adrooping habit, and the leaves very large. Coprosma tenuifolia is anabundant underscrub of the forest up to 3,600 ft., but is not recordedfrom the Tararuas. One of the most striking ecological facts is the absence of FagusMenziesii, which constitutes by far the most abundant forest-tree above2,000 ft. up to 4,000 ft. on the Tararua Mountains. It was not observedin the lower forest of the main Ruahine Range, but in the lower forest ofthe Kaimanawa Mountains, on the eastern side, it is present, ascending to3,000 ft. It is recorded from Tongariro National Park by Cockayne, andfrom the higher Waimarino by E. Phillips Turner. On the higher forestof the Ruahine and Kaimanawa Mountains it is certainly replaced by Fagus Aston.—Phanerogamic Flora of Ruahine Mountain-chain. 41 r 30 H«TERviiiJ «)-
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