The Vegetation of New Zealand
[Plates I - LXXXVII]
Fig. 39. Nothofagus cliffortioides forest at about 560 m. altitude (Waimakariri Valley, junction of Eastern and Western districts) marking the average line reached by the westerly rain. Between the river-bed and forest margin its junction with the tussock-grassland can be seen.
Photo. C. E. Foweraker.
Fig. 63. Mat of Leucogenes Leontopodium as a member of the fell-field association of the Tararua Mountains at about 1300 m. altitude (Ruahine-Cook district).
Photo. E. Bruce Levy.
Fig. 73. Exterior view of shrub-composite subalpine-scrub of Mount Anglem, Stewart Island, at about 700 m. altitude. The main mass is Olearia Colensoi but in foreground is some Dacrydium Bidwillii and jutting through the roof shoots of Dracophyllum longifolium. — Thoto. F. G. Gibbs.
Fig. 89. Pimelea Gnidia — of Hebe-form — growing with Astelia Cockaynei (foreground), Phormium Colensoi (right hand corner oi background) and Dracophyllum filifolium (left of centre in background) as part of shrubby herb-field of Tararua Mountains (Ruahine-Cook district).
Photo. E. Bruce Levy.
Fig. 106. View of a forest-area after a successful bush-burn.
Photo. A. H. Cockayne.