Identifier: throughsouthwes00more (find matches)
Title: Through south Westland, a journey to the Haast and Mount Aspiring, New Zealand
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Moreland, A. Maud
Subjects: Westland, N.Z. (County)
Publisher: London Witherby
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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years,being added to only from the tip of the lance,and are but half an inch wide at most, though theyhave been measured forty-three inches long. Fortwenty years it may grow thus, till it is asmany feet high. Then a gradual change occurs :branches grow out from the top, the leaves becomeshorter and cluster at the tips, at the sametime turning a glossy dark green, till the tree bearsa bushy head of foliage, with compound leavesof three to five leaflets. Now begins the floweringstage—they are greenish, and remind one a littleof the hemlocks. This stage may continue foryears, but it is not final. Once more the leavesbecome simple, four to six inches in length ; andfrom now on, the tree assumes the habit of one ofthe smaller forest trees, reaching as much as sixtyfeet in height. It is really a species of aralia.The bush gains much in beauty from the manyshrubs of this family, which is largely represented.They are noticeable usually for their large foliage, * P eeudo-panax crassifolium.
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THE APPROACH TO THE FOX GLACIER. (63 THE FOREST WORLD. 63 so glossy and ornamental among the small-leavedpines. But one could go on for ever dwelling onthe strange varieties of the bush, and its strangeraffinities—it is full of anomalies and unexpected-ness. Melanesian species are largely represented, soagain are Australian and Tasmanian, and many atree and plant has its nearest relatives in SouthAmerican forests, or the lonely islands of theSouthern Pacific. For a long time we had been ascending, and musthave reached a height! of a couple of thousand feet;and now the view below us gradually unfolded.Hill beyond hill, the forest undulated away tothe foot of stately, snow-clad mountains, whosedomes and peaks glittered in the sunshine. Weknew the Fox glacier came down there from theice-fields between Mount Haidinger and the HaastPeak, with the Douglas Peak (10,107 feet) lyingto the north, but we could not see it. The plainspread out below us for thirty miles, dotted withclearings—bl

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