Scene in a New Zealand Forest, showing varieties of ferns including Cyathea medullaris and the Cyathia dealbata. As described in the text accompanying this fine lithograph, "So exuberant is vegetable life in these damp and gloomy forests, that it is difficult to find a single space, not covered with plants... amid the gloom of these Antipodeal forests, there reigns a solemn and almost unbroken stillness". Plate from 'The New Zealanders illustrated' by George French Angas (1822-1886).