Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand Volume 36 - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...are formed by Carex secta. As the ground becomes more swampy Carex trifida appears, taking the place of the tussock-grass. Between the tussock and the actual sea-shore is a zone of Poa foliosa. Probably in this formation are included two quite distinct from one another, a grass-tussock and a Carex bog, but the time was too limited to do more than take the above brief notes. A very similar formation seems to be present on Enderby Island, but I have no details, except such as are shown in a photograph, from which it is evident that the tussocks there are of great size. All that part of Enderby Island fully exposed to the wind is occupied by a tussock formation. 5. Pleurophyllum Meadow. Beyond learning that a certain number of most striking and beautiful herbaceous plants grow in company with one another there, there is little to be found in the writings of those botanists who treat of the Southern Islands, as to the extent, limits, altitude, or edapbic conditions of the plantformation which these plants constitute, or whether, indeed, such plants do form a distinct society. From the writings of Sir Joseph Hooker it seems clear that at the northern end of Auckland Island--that part alone of the group where his botanical explorations were made--a considerable altitude must be reached before the above-mentioned striking plants are encountered in any number, while he distinctly points out that on Campbell Island, owing to their occurrence at a lower altitude, they form a more striking feature of the landscape. Thus, Hooker writes, "Beyond the wooded region some of the same plants" the forest trees "in a dwarf state mingled with others compose a broad shrubby belt, which ascends the hills to an altitude of 800 ft. or 900 ft., gradually opening out i...
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- PublisherRarebooksclub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1236101553
- ISBN 13 9781236101556
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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