Text Appearing Before Image: 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 Text Appearing After Image: 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 bushmen as birch,but more corre
Note About Images
Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Cette image est issue de la collection The Commons du site Flickr. Les organismes y partageant leur collection déclarent qu'à leur connaissance, aucune restriction de droit d'auteur ne fait obstacle à leur diffusion, pour l'une des raisons suivantes :
l'œuvre est dans le domaine public car les droits d'auteur ont expiré ;
l'œuvre a été rattachée au domaine public pour d'autres raisons, tel que le non respect des conditions nécessaires pour renouveler des droits d'auteur ;
l'organisme est détenteur des droits d'auteur mais ne ne souhaite pas exercer son contrôle ou ;
l'organisme possède des droits suffisant pour permettre à des tiers d'utiliser ces travaux sans aucune restriction.
Merci d'ajouter des bandeaux de licence supplémentaires à cette image si des informations plus spécifiques sont disponibles à propos du statut de cette image. Consultez Commons:À propos des licences pour plus d'informations.
No known copyright restrictionsNo restrictionshttps://www.flickr.com/commons/usage/false
Cette image a été originellement postée sur Flickr par Internet Archive Book Images à l'adresse https://flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14597654467. Elle a été passée en revue le 21 septembre 2015 par le robot FlickreviewR, qui a confirmé qu'elle se trouvait sous licence No known copyright restrictions.
21 septembre 2015
Légendes
Ajoutez en une ligne la description de ce que représente ce fichier