New Zealand Plants and their Collectors

摘要

Gir Joseph Dalton Hooker had a signif-icant role in the naming of many New" Zealand plants. The first volume of his "Flora Antarctica" (1844) covers 100 species of flowering plants, 20 ferns and fern allies, and numerous mosses, liverworts and other cryptogams (plants that produce spores.) These plants are found on each of the two islands that comprise New Zealand. Two examples in our Arboretum are Celmisia speclabilis (WPA-1) and C. viscosa (WPA-2), the first a perennial herb, the second a sub-shruboften clad in dead, leaves. Both are valued for their silvery foliage and attractive white, large and daisy-like blossoms. Most Celmisia species are found in herb fields and fell fields (treeless, alpine, rock-strewn areas), where they are commonly associated with tussock grasses.