When botanist Leonard Cockayne (1855 1934) first received an
invitation from the German publisher Engelmann to write an account
of the botany of New Zealand, much of it was still unknown. He
spent the period from 1904 to 1913 immersed in fieldwork, and his
first edition was not published until 1921. In this 1928 second
edition Cockayne extensively updates the text, adding the results
of further research from the intervening years. This work gives
detailed descriptions of New Zealand's plant life, but Cockayne
also considers the history of botanical study of the islands, from
Captain Cook's voyages in the eighteenth century onwards, and
includes the arrival of colonial plant collectors and an overview
of important publications by New Zealand botanists. The
descriptions of vegetation cover the sea coast, the lowlands,
mountains, and outlying islands, and there are extensive
photographs, offering a comprehensive guide to New Zealand's
botany.
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