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Title: Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: New Zealand Institute (Wellington, N.Z
Subjects: Science Birds
Publisher: Wellington : J. Hughes, Printer
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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iginal flora, bythe Maori race ; the displacement of a portion of the original species ; thespontaneous amalgamation of introduced and native species for the benefit ofman ; the relative statistical importance of the naturalized species to eachother, and to the indigenous flora; the influence of climatal and geognosticconditions in facilitating or retarding distribution, and in developing aberrationsfrom the original type, are attractive subjects of vast importance to the phyto-geographical student, and at the present time could probably be worked outmore clearly and with greater precision for this colony than for any othercountry whose flora is equally well determined, owing to the small admixtureof error with the facts upon which the student must base his conclusions. The following plan has been adopted for expressing the known facts foreach species, in a concise manner, and admits of ready adaptation for otherdistricts. j<j\^il5rfi Oaf 174, TRANS.OF N.Z. INSTITUTE VOLITPla/beJS.
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17f 176 133 I.—Extent of diffusion. With the view of indicating, as precisely as practicable, the presentdiffusion of each species, the Province of Auckland, as far south as Ngarua-wahia, has been divided (somewhat arbitrarily) into districts, as under:— 1. North Cape:—from. Cape Maria Van Dieman and the North Cape., toHokianga and the Bay of Islands. 2. Whangarei:—from Hokianga and the Bay of Islands, to Cape Bodneyand the north head of the Kaipara harbour. 3. Waitemata:—from the south head of the Kaipara, and Cape Bodney,to the head of the Manukau harbour at Benrose, and the Tamaki at Panmure. 4. The Islands:—including the Cavalhos and Taranga groups, the Greatand Little Barriers, etc., the Kawau, and those in the Firth of Thames. 5. Cape Colville:—-the Cape Colville peninsula as far south as Kawae-ranga and Wangamata Bay. 6. Waikato:—from Penrose and Panmure to Whaingaroa and Nga-ruawahia. The district in which each species is known to occur will be indicated bythe

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