23 23 REPORT REPORT

BCTANY BCTANY

N.T. N.T.

GENERAL GENERAL

~JETLAND, ~JETLAND,

DSIR DSIR

DIVISION DIVISION

BOTANY BOTANY

JULY JULY

MOAR MOAR

DIVISION, DIVISION,

1953 1953

NOTES NOTES

29TH 29TH

l.JN l.JN

JUNE JUNE

DSIR DSIR

SWAlfS SWAlfS

-

11TH 11TH

ANC ANC

JULY JULY

WATER WATER

1953 1953

PLANTS PLANTS IN IN Information in this unpublished report should not be used without approval of the Director of Botany Division and the author .. GENERALNOTES ON SWAMPSAND WATERPLANTS IN WESTLAND

29th June - llth July 1953

N.T. Moar Botany Division, DSIR 23 July 1953

SUMMARY

These notes were made while studying silver pine swamps in the district.

Plant communities

swamp and water plants were

were were

were many silver would Hypolaena Lake Ross The visiting Hari This

Kokatahi noted. Rimu or Okarito aquatic

Bruce General Cladium gymnopitys) alongside Polamogeton of Pakihis

and simplex Isoetes after

the of

tram-line.

to

work

pool

Lake be

Poerua

sluggish formed

noted made.

Pakihi,

A Hari A A pools Myriophyllum Nothing

Notes

and collected. frequent. Ianthe

is In

worthy

proably

day-break. Bay

narrow pine

brief

large

was

beside

Roadside

State

notes

alpinus of

Kiui

teretifolium in in

(Nympha

Woodstock

the

laterifiora a

growing

River)

on and easy

on connection

this

was

noted

area. A back suboblangus

swampy district streams examination could

of

swamp, In

a

be

dredge

road

Forest

specimen

on

the

swampy the

species

was

sp.?)

Black

access.

growing a

In

area

worthwhile

drains

Swamps

road

growing Potamogeton

careful Pakihis

location

(propinquum?)

between

drive-way Access

in

be

one

Shearer

areas

found

were

was were

41

tailings

was

a

areas

with Creek

and

running observed

in

pool

of

of

was

roadside

and in

and

(access

was

dense

connection

washed

observed.

Gabnia· and

around examination. between

frequently to.both

also this Nitella

Rimu

shallow

silver of

swamp,

investigating. Water

pools a

in

growing

(access

made

into

was

sluggish

broad

cheesemanii

from

lakes,

which

was

here

over examined

and

was

from

drain.

sp. up the

J.S.

was

along traversed.

areas

Okarito

just

Plants

pine

was

water.

Wanganui

collected.

Woodstock

with

on

noted

from as

in

leaved

large

were

Potamogeton

were

shore,

full

road

lagoons

observed

Bradley's

noted streams

we

muddy

the

south

"swamps",

the

is

(see

Foster's

the

in

various

of

and

frequent

arrived

area running

and

in

narrow

Specimens

aquatic

easy.

eastern

and

Flat

Westland,

water

about

of plants,

swamp

a

and

later).

Along

running

Myriophyllum

the

were

Swamps

on growing

roadside

a ai

sp.

house

Road

swamps

as

aquatic

species gravel

beside

farm

one Forks

after

two on between

(Nympha and

noted.

shore

this

these

and

but of

towards

a beside

and

to

29th

miles

the

water

at

in

were

Isoetes were pakihi

dark, drain.

Myriophyllum

Wanganui beach.

road no

the

plants.

of

of

the sluggish

township

may

a

large

propinquum

sleepers

June

In

close

sp.?)

stream

L. Chara

south

Poerua

noted made

plant

the

the there

road

and

be

a

lying

and

Ianthe.

- In

stream

leaved

Leptocarpus

road,

useful

coast,

was

River)

observations

left

in

llth

These

of

end

appeared streams

bulletin. (possibly

in

2'-3' the

were

Chara

River

of

behind

the

sp.

Ross. were

seen.

passing.

beside

and vicinity the

soon

July

when

·

deep.

course

a

1953 Arahura, Gladstone -

train.

interesting

Coastal

Areas

Kapitea

timber

to

swamps

which

note

mill.

Creek,

might

Melianthus

and

Chesterfield,

lagoons,

be

worthwhile

major

all

2.

of

growing

Gladstone

visiting

easy

beside

access,

and

were

Paroa.

the

were

noted

railway

noted

near

It

was

from

line,

Ha

Ho,

the

at

a