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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Juvenile form of Leucopogon fasciculatus collected in theNorth Auckland Botanical District. (Life size.) (Esmond Atkinson del. many matters connected with distribution in New Zealand thathave been left unsaid. This is the case of the aggregate Celmisiaglandulosa, frequently a plant of subalpine bogs or wet herb-field.Generally speaking, throughout the area of its distribution it isrepresented by a well-marked variety (the type ) ; but on MountBgmont this variety is absent, and in its stead a plant with muchbroader leaves is alone to be found. Again, in the Clinton Valley(Fiord Botanical District), it is neither of the above varieties which NARROW-LEAVED LEUCOPOGON FASCICULATUS. 201 occurs, but a much more robust plant with long flower-stalks. Inthe case of the aggregate C. glandulosa the differences appear due toisolation having permitted these two forms of limited distributionto arise.
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Seedling (on left) and piece of adult (on right) of the narrow-leavedform of Leucopogon fasciculatvs, both collected in the Ruahine.Cook Botanical District. (Life size.) (Esmond Atkimon del- 202 NEW ZEALAND PLANTS. CHAPTER XIII. THE AFFINITIES, ORIGIN, AND HISTORY OF THE FLORA. General remarks—Distribution of the kowhai—The endemic element of theNew Zealand flora—Different degrees of endemism—The Australian elementof the New Zealand flora—The Fuegian element of the New Zealand flora—List of species common to New Zealand and subantarctic South America—The Malayan element of the New Zealand flora—The European element ofthe New Zealand flora—The cosmopohtan element—Relation of the flora ofLord Howe and Norfolk Islands to that of New Zealand—The fossil floraof Antarctica—The New Zealand Tertiary fossil flora—How plants changetheir form—The history of the New Zealand flora—The New Zealand glacialperiod. So far, as recorded in this book, the plants have given f

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