New Zealand plants and their story
By: by L. Cockayne
Edition: 3d ed., revised throughout.
Series: New Zealand. Board of Science and Art. Manual -- no.6; Manual (New Zealand. Board of Science and Art) -- no. 6
Publisher: Government Printer
Published: 1927
Place of publication: Wellington, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Botany
Notes: Plates are printed on both sides.
Table of contents: title: Ch. I.; title: HOW THE PLANTS HAVE TOLD THEIR STORY --; title: How the plants are made to "tell their story" --; title: Banks and Solander --; title: Bank's love of natural history --; title: The Foresters, father and son --; title: Cook's second voyage --; title: Why Banks did not accompany Cook --; title: Menzies --; title: Dumont D'Urville and Richard --; title: " Essai d'une Flore de la Nouvelle Zelande" --; title: The Cunninghams and the plant-life of northern Auckland --; title: Raoul, the French botanist --; title: The Rev. William Colenso --; title: Colenso's discovery of alpine plants on the Ruahine Mountains --; title: The wonderful work of Sir Joseph Hooker --; title: Darwin's remarks on Hooker's work --; title: The botanical exploration of the Southern Alps --; title: Sinclair, Bidwill, Haast, Hector, and Buchanan --; title: Lyall, surgeon on the "Acheron" --; title: The botanical exploration of the Chatham Islands by H. H. Travers and F. A. D. Cox --; title: Present day New Zealand botany and Thomas Kirk --; title: Cheeseman's "Manual of the New Zealand Flora" --; title: D. Petrie and the flora of Otago --; title: The plants still telling their story -- -- Ch. II.; title: SOME PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING VEGETATION AND LIVING PLANTS --; title: Special botanical interest of New Zealand --; title: Changes wrought by the European settler --; title: Explanation of the term "flora" --; title: What is meant by the term "vegetation" --; title: Definition of the expression "plant-community" --; title: Some plant-communities of a farm --; title: The plant-formation and the plant association --; title: Explanation of the term "growth form" --; title: Some characteristic New Zealand growth-forms --; title: More about growth-forms --; title: Plasticity in plants --; title: Effect of change in outer circumstances on the manuka --; title: Stimuli and their effect in changing form --; title: Natural changes in a plant-community --; title: Topographical and biological succession --; title: Climax and migratory formations --; title: The struggle for existence --; title: The growing-place of a plant --; title: The meaning of the term "adaptation" --; title: Adaptations with regard to the water-supply -- -- Ch. III.; title: THE FLORA AND VEGETATION OF THE SEA-COAST --; title: General remarks --; title: Statistics regarding the flora --; title: Salt and succulence --; title: The ice-plant and other succulents --; title: Growth-forms of coastal plants --; title: Muchlenbeckia Astoni --; title: A coastal climbing-plant --; title: Seaweeds --; title: The sea-grasses --; title: Sandy and rocky shores --; title: Sandhills, their plants and plant-associations --; title: Sand-binders --; title: The spiny rolling-grass --; title: Plants of sand-hollows --; title: The mangrove and its strange habits --; title: Salt-swamps --; title: Salt-meadows --; title: Peaty salt-meadow --; title: Vegetation of rocks and cliffs --; title: The pohutukawa --; title: Rangitot Island --; title: Phormium associations --; title: Coastal shrubberies --; title: Coastal forest --; title: The kohekohe --; title: The home of the tuatara and of a New Zealand frog --; title: The wind-swept Open Bay Islands --; title: The Poor Knights Islands -- -- Ch. IV.; title: THE STORY OF THE FORESTS --; title: General remarks --; title: Distribution of the forest --; title: Composition of the forest --; title: Two classes of forest --; title: Special characteristics of rain-forest --; title: Origin of special forest-plants --; title: Climbing-plants --; title: Scramblers --; title: The climbing-apparatus of the bush-lawyers --; title: Root-climbers --; title: The ratavines --; title: Climbing-ferns --; title: Winding lianes --; title: The managemange --; title: A leaf yards in length --; title: Explanation of the term "spore" --; title: Tendril-climbers --; title: The species of Clematis --; title: Perching-plants --; title: Seedling trees as perching-plants --; title: Filmy ferns --; title: The flowers of the forest --; title: The kauri forest --; title: Life-history of a kauri forest --; title: Mixed forest --; title: Forest-trees and their distribution --; title: Westland podocarp forest --; title: Climas forest --; title: Kahikatea swamp-forest --; title: Southern-beech forest --; title: Lowland southern-beech forest --; title: Importance of the southern-beeches -- -- Ch. V.; title: LOWLAND SHRUB-ASSOCIATIONS, HEATH, AND ROCK VEGETATION --; title: New Zealand shrubs in general --; title: The genus Hebe --; title: Relationship between the shrub form and the tree form --; title: The ramarama --; title: Persistent juvenile forms --; title: The case of Pennantia --; title: The behaviour of the kowhai --; title: The pokaka, the mountain-currant, the koromikos in general --; title: What experiment can do --; title: The dwelling-places of the manuka --; title: Manuka thicket --; title: Tuberous-rooted orchids --; title: Plants of the Auckland gumlands --; title: The pumice shrublands --; title: The new vegetation after a volcanic eruption --; title: Manuka thicket of the South Island --; title: "Wind-scrub" --; title: River-terrace scrub --; title: Fern-heath --; title: Rock-plants in general --; title: Species common on rocks --; title: Rock association of Hawke's Bay --; title: The cliffs of the Wanganui River --; title: The Pachystegia insignis association --; title: Rock association of Banks Peninsula --; title: A remarkable case of plant-distribution -- -- Ch. VI.; title: THE STORY OF THE GRASSLANDS --; title: General remarks --; title: Samuel Butler's opinion of New Zealand flowers --; title: Distribution of the grasslands --; title: Classification of the grassland --; title: Composition and distribution of low tussock-grassland --; title: The poa-tussock and fescue-associations -- --; title: List of species of low tussock-grassland --; title: The "stupid gentian" --; title: Shrubs of the grassland --; title: The dwarf brooms --; title: The Spaniard --; title: Drought-resisting structure of many low tussock-grassland plants --; title: River-bed and the evolution of low tussock-grassland --; title: The growth-form of the red-tussock --; title: Appearance and constituents of certain tall tussock-grassland associations --; title: The Danthonia australis association --; title: Tussock-grassland from the economic aspect --; title: The question of burning --; title: Palatability of indigenous grasses -- -- Ch. VIII.; title: THE FLORA AND VEGETATION OF THE HIGH MOUNTAINS --; title: General remarks --; title: Statistics dealing with the alpine and lowland floras --; title: Latitudinal distribution of the high-mountain flora --; title: The alpine dwellers of Te Moehau --; title: From Mount Hikurangi to Egmont and the Tararuas --; title: The altitudinal belts of vegetation and their limits --; title: Conditions of life for the high-mountain plant inhabitants --; title: Adaptations of the high-mountain plants --; title: The flowers of the high mountains --; title: The eyebrights, ourisias, buttercups, forget-me-nots, celmisias, and edelweiss --; title: High-mountain rock plant-associations --; title: The rock-koromikos --; title: The vegetable-sheep --; title: Associations of stony debris --; title: A jet-black daisy --; title: Fell-field --; title: The coral-broom --; title: Plants of the mineral belt --; title: Herb-field --; title: Flowers of Mount Egmont --; title: The subalpine scrub --; title: Shrubby koromikos and tree-daisies --; title: High-mountain plants at sea-level --; title: Winter coloration -- -- Ch. VIII.; title: PLANT-COMMUNITIES AND PANTS OF INLAND WATERS, SWAMPS, AND BOGS --; title: General remarks --; title: The water-ferns --; title: Azolla rubra --; title: The pond-weeds --; title: The water-milfoil --; title: Fresh-water algae --; title: Algae of hot-water springs --; title: Definition of term "swamp" --; title: Conditions of plant-life in swamp --; title: The root of Phormium tenax --; title: Breathing-roots of the pukatea --; title: Relations of swamp to other plant-formations --; title: Vegetation of swamps --; title: Swamp of Auckland --; title: Special South Island swamp-plants --; title: Bogs --; title: Sphagnum moss and it peculiarities --; title: Dryness of sphagnum-cushions --; title: Origin and distribution of bogs --; title: Growth-forms of bog-plants --; title: Some bog associations --; title: Sundews and bladderworts --; title: The species of Gunnera --; title: The false snow-grass (Schoenus pauciflorus) plant association -- -- Ch. XI.; title: THE FLORA AND VEGETATION OF THE OUTLYING ISLANDS --; title: A goblin forest --; title: The subantarctic flora --; title: Composition of the subantarctic forest --; title: Remnant of an ancient subantarctic tree-formation --; title: Plants of the seashore --; title: The splendid herbaceous plants --; title: Subantarctic tussocks --; title: Vegetation of Antipodes Island --; title: Vegetation of Macquire Island --; title: A "wind-desert" --; title: Vegetation of the Snares --; title: A natural rotation of crops --; title: The Bounty Islands --; title: Flora of the Chatham Islands --; title: The Chatham Island forest --; title: Chatham Island bogs --; title: The giant forget-me-not --; title: Some interesting Chatham Island plants --; title: Flora of the Kermadec islands --; title: Lack of tropical species in the Kermadecs --; title: Plants peculiar to the group --; title: The two kinds of forest and their trees --; title: The two tree-ferns --; title: Luxuriance of New Zealand trees on the Kermadecs --; title: Ch. X.; title: THE EVOLUTION OF A NEW FLORA AND VEGETATION --; title: General remarks --; title: Number of foreign plants growing wild in New Zealand --; title: Origin of the plant aliens --; title: Statistics regarding the invaders --; title: The comparative rareness of most introduced plants --; title: No foreign plants in the primitive plant-formations --; title: The three Classes of new vegetation --; title: Some modified associations --; title: Some associations of alien species --; title: The depleted grassland of Central Otaga --; title: Danthonia grassland --; title: Something about weeds --; title: Potential weeds --; title: Evolution of weeds in New Zealand --; title: Ferns and manuka as weeds --; title: Cotton-plant and swamp-lily as weeds --; title: Will indignous species become extinct? -- -- Ch XI.; title: THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE PLANTS --; title: Popular names of plants --; title: English names and Maori names --; title: Scientific names of plants --; title: Some objections to the use of scientific names --; title: Meaning of the term "species" --; title: Little species --; title: Compound species --; title: Meaning of terms "genus" and "family" --; title: The leading families and genera of the seed-plants --; title: Seed-plants with only one seed-leaf --; title: Plants with naked seeds --; title: Ferns --; title: Lycopodiaceae --; title: Tmesipteris --; title: Mosses and liverworts --; title: Fungi --; title: Algae --; title: Bacteria --; title: Slime-fungi -- -- Ch. XII.; title: THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE PLANTS IN NEW ZEALAND --; title: General remarks --; title: What the plants could tell of their wanderings --; title: The critical boundary-lines --; title: Effect of altitude --; title: Effect of the Southern Alps --; title: Some drought-resisitng species --; title: Effect of the south-west rains --; title: Methods of seed-dispersal --; title: Discontinuous distribution --; title: Species know in only one local --; title: The elements of the flora --; title: The data for plant-geographical studies --; title: Land connections of ancient New Zealand --; title: History of the flora.