New Zealand plants and their story

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Identifier: newzealandplan00cock (find matches)
Title: New Zealand plants and their story
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Cockayne, Leonard, 1855-1934
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: Wellington, N.Z., M.F. Marks, Govt. Printer
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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australis) are animportant feature of the vegetation of the West King. Surprising as it may seem, there are more than 100 species ofplants which either do not extend past latitude 38° S., or go beyondit only for a short distance. Some of these are trees, shrubs, andferns characteristic of the forests of the North and South AucklandBotanical Districts. The following may be noted : The handsome THE BOTANICAL DISTRICTS. 181 THRCC KINGS Is., 1 G. Matia V. bieman North Cape _ I.j Doubtless Bay Bay of Islands EXPLANATION. ; BOTANICAL DISTRICT. No, ON Map Three Kings .... 1 North Auckland 2 South Auckland 3 (a) Waikato Subdistrict 1 (b) Thames Subdistrict 1 Volcanic Plateau 4 East Cape 5 Egniont-Wanganui 6 Ruahine-Cook V (a) WcllinEton Subdistrict (b) Marlborough Sounds Subdistrict Nortb-eastern South Island ... 8 North-western South Island .... 9 Eastern South Island 10 Western South Islahd 11 Norih Otago .... 12 South Otago 13 1 Fiord .... 14 1 Stewart _ .... 15 ^ •-/GisborriePoverty 8
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©asf Cape ■^f^ssM y Map of NEW ZEALAND showingProposed Botanical Districts 182 NEW ZEALAND PLANTS. fern Loxsoma Cunninghamii (the genus endemic), which is found incertain localities only, there forming great colonies amongst manukanear the outskirts of kauri forests (in all floras it is placed with thefilmy ferns, but the discovery of its juvenile sexual stage a few yearsago showed this to be erroneous, so for the future it must be placedwith the ordinary thicker-leaved ferns) ; the kauri (Agathis australis) ;the taraire (Beilschmiedia taraire) ; the tawhero (Weinmannia sylvicola);the makamaka (AcJcama rosaefolia) ; the mairehau (Phebalium nudum) ;various species of Pittosporum, especially the karo (P. crassifolium) ;one or two species of Coprosma—e.g., C. arborea and C. spathulata.Some species are confined to the far north—e.g., the king fern (Todea barbara) ; the parasitic Cassytha paniculata; the beautiful large thin-leaved oru (Colensoa physaloides), able to endure much shad

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