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… plants, forming impenetrable tangles in second-growth forest. Leaves of pohuehue grow up to 3 in. long and are … Poole, M.SC., B.FOR.SC., F.R.S.N.Z., Director-General of Forests, Wellington. …
… of the glaciers, the hills became covered with thick forest, at least to 4,500 ft, but only relatively small …
… (12–20 in.). Most of the humid areas were originally in forest or scrub and the drier areas were in tussock …
… of which, the fan fern, S. dichotoma , is found in kauri forests. Of the same family is that intriguing climber, the mange mange, Lygodium articulatum , which festoons forest trees, climbing by the midrib of the leaf. It is …
… 1908, when the northern and southern railheads met in the forest at a point almost midway between Auckland and … saw the building of new railways to tap the vast exotic forests of the North Island pumice lands. An 18-mile branch …
… The clearing of land for crops had pushed back the coastal forest and the first Europeans found a fringe of fernland, … from 2–4 miles deep, extending as a great arc around the forest of the interior. These fringe lands were dotted with …
… found under stones and logs and in the soil under tussocks, forest, or other vegetation, as well as in the intertidal …
… Zealand. Beetles are ubiquitous. They occur in water, soil, forest litter, timber, flowers, fruit, strored foods, skins …
… as in former times. Though predominantly birds of native forest and scrub, bell-birds are by no means unknown to …
… During the last three decades of the nineteenth century the forest resources of the peninsula were, as McCaskill (1949) …