. Plantes de Nouvelle-Zélande. ent d'épaisseur uniforme et inchangeable hue. Perhapsthe forêt de hêtres est plus belle lorsque ses profondeurs sont illuminatedby les rayons de soleil. Il arrive souvent à Canterbury, au cours d'un coup de vent du nord-ouest,que juste avant la tombée du soleil tombe au-dessous de l'heavycurtain de nuages dans le ciel clair du passage ci-dessous, et il atevening est lumière. Comme le niveau de route sont jetés dans therecesses de quelque sombre ravin de Bush dans le pied-hills,la vue est l'un d'être rappelé pour une vie. Thoughquite naturel, il me semble, de la vivacité de son spectaculareffects, pas naturel. Le gia

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. Plants of New Zealand. ent of uniform thickness and changeless hue. Perhapsthe beech forest is most beautiful when its depths are illuminatedby the rays of sunset. It often happens in Canterbury, during a north-west gale, that just before nightfall the sun drops below the heavycurtain of clouds into the clear arch of sky below, and atevening it is light. As the level beams are thrown into therecesses of some sombre bush-clad ravine in the foot-hills, the sight is one to be remembered for a lifetime. Thoughquite natural, it seems, from the vividness of its spectaculareffects, unnatural. The giant limbs of the trees push forth onall sides with lance-like thrust, and the inter-spaces betweentheir wide-spreading horizontal branches, form pathways, bywhich the shafted light can penetrate far into the bush. Thegreat halls of greenery are revealed in vista after vista, and inthe background are seen the brown, dead leaves, that lag theforest brook along, for in these drier districts there is little THE BEECH TREE 131. In the Beech Forest 132 PLANTS OF NEW ZEALAND undergrowth. Over the countless green mosaics of the hvingbranches, with their two-ranked twigs and leaves, the eveningsunshine passes, and stirs into activity all the life within, at the same time throwing into relief the infinite detail oftracery and arabesque in bough and bole. The bearded lichenstrailing from the branches are almost motionless^ though thewind thunders overhead. One side of the valley is in thedimmest twilight, whilst on the other every shoot flares out inalmost garish distinctness. The contrast is a violent one ; butit is soon gone, and only the rosy colours of the clouds aboveremain to break the darkness. With sunset the north-westeralways lulls for a short time, and then its roar gives placeto the coo-ee of the weka and the melancholy cry of the owl. Distribution of the New Zealand Species, The genus Nothofagus has some half-dozen representativesin New Zealand, all forest trees known to bushme

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