New Zealand plants and their story . ow-white woolly Craspedia alpina; a plant of the carrotfamily {Anisotome carnosula) ; a daisy, jet black, and with stamenslike golden pin-heads {Cotula atrata), and its near relative C. Dendyi,with larger flower-heads brown or almost yellow in colour ; one ofthe pink family {Stellaria Roughii) ; the curious and sweet-scentedpenwiper-plant [Notothlaspi rosulatum) (fig. 68) ; a plant with pea- SPECIES OF SHINGLE-SLIPS. 107 like flowers {Swainsona novae-zelandiae) ; great woolly mats of Haastiarecurva; and a fleshy-leaved lobelia {L. Roughii). A piripiri, too{
New Zealand plants and their story . ow-white woolly Craspedia alpina; a plant of the carrotfamily {Anisotome carnosula) ; a daisy, jet black, and with stamenslike golden pin-heads {Cotula atrata), and its near relative C. Dendyi,with larger flower-heads brown or almost yellow in colour ; one ofthe pink family {Stellaria Roughii) ; the curious and sweet-scentedpenwiper-plant [Notothlaspi rosulatum) (fig. 68) ; a plant with pea- SPECIES OF SHINGLE-SLIPS. 107 like flowers {Swainsona novae-zelandiae) ; great woolly mats of Haastiarecurva; and a fleshy-leaved lobelia {L. Roughii). A piripiri, too{Acaena glabra), is frequently confined to this peculiar station. Theseplants do not grow closely side by side ; they are few and farbetween, and without close observation the slopes look quite a trailing - veronica (V. epacridea) sprawls over thestones, and it is frequently accompanied by a smaller species ofthe whipcord form, V. lycopodioides, while the semi-whipcord koro-miko, V. tetrasticha, may also be Ranunculus crithmifolius, a rare buttercup found sparingly in the North-easternBotanical District, and then considerably to the south on the MountArrowsmith Range (Canterbury). Trans. Inat.] [After Laing. In the North-eastern Botanical District, in addition to the above,there are the rock-bluebell (Wahlenhergia cartilaginea), a plant ratherlike a European crusty saxifrage ; the greyish Raoulia cinerea : and aconvolvulus {Convolvulus fractosaxosa). In the western mountainsof the South Island there are woolly mats of Haastia Sinclairii, and,confined to northern Westland, Veronica Haastii var. macrocalyx. ^ A vegetable-sheep of the largest dimensions, Haastia pulvinaris,grows on the shingle-slips of the North-eastern Botanical District, 108 NEW ZEALAND PLANTS. but only where the stones are very large, the result of quite recentdisintegration. The cushions are even more woolly and sheep-likethan those of Raoulia eximia. Probably H. pulvinaris may
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