Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand Volume 1 - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 edition. Excerpt: ... to mark them as two distinct regions of plants. The Clutha river forms the natural boundary between, and although one or two genera, such as Fagus, push outposts across the boundary, it can be distinctly traced from the Wanaka lake to the "Nuggets," on the line of the river. Some peculiarity seems to exist in the climate of the eastern, or Dunedin region, which may perhaps be explained by meteorological observations. The character of the Dunedin Flora is more of a negative nature, wanting many species which encircle it in a belt, west, south, aud east, forming the boundary line of the two regions. Under circumstances of adaptation. the Now Zealand species are wide spread, and the bush on the east is extensive enough to have retained every species, from accidents of tire denudation, if they ever existed there. Latitude does not account either for the difference, as several of the species absent on the east, range from the North Island to Riverton on the west coast. The following plants, of the western region, will not be found on the east, except a few isolated individuals, and those generally young plants: Metronderos lucida, Weinmannia racemosa, Piitosporum rigidum, Panax auomalum, P. liueare, P. arb&reum, Olearia operina, O. Colensoi, O. angustifulia, O. Cunninghami, O. moschata, O. ffectori, Plagianthus Lyalll, Suphora tetmplem var. mierophylhim, Seuecio bifistulosus, S. rotundtj'olius, S. cassinioides, Archtria Tracersii, Hedycarya dentata, Ascarlna lucida, Fayus fusca, F. ISolandri, F. Menziesi, Freycinetia Eaufeii, Cordyline indirisa. Many of the Sub-alpine llants of this list, are also found in the valleys, such as Olearia moschata and O. ffectori, the latter attaining its maxinmm of growth in the Wyndham...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1130676005
- ISBN 13 9781130676006
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages212
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