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In the ravines and steep gullies formed by the creeks grow masses of ferns of all sorts, spreading like large shrubs, and contrasting by their light bright green with the black stems of the birch-trees around them. There are a few pines in this bush, but not many. I can give you no idea of the variety among the shrubs : the koromika, like an Alpine rose, a compact ball of foliage ; the lance-wood, a tall, slender stem, straight as a line, with a few long leaves at the top, turned downwards like... the barb of a spear, and looking exactly like a lance stuck into the ground ; the varieties of matapo, a beautiful shrub, each leaf a study, with its delicate tracery of black veins on a yellow-green ground ; the mappo, the gohi, and many others, any of which would be the glory of an English shrubbery : but they seem to require the deep shelter of their native Bush, for they never flourish when transplanted. I noticed the slender XIV. ] '§itmmnB oi nntuni f^oxtBiB, 95 hold the large trees have of the ground, and it is not at all surprising, after such a gale as we had three weeks ago, to see many of the finest blown down in the clearings where the wind could reach them.
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