Freshwater Algae of the Hutt Valley

Abstract

The Hutt Valley a very pleasant spot, amply blest with rain and sunshine and with sufficient frost. Thus the aspect of the vegetation presents pleasing harmonies and contrasts and offers ample scope for observation. All the gradations from marine to fresh water, from bright sun to deep shade, from sea level to a height of 1200 feet, from still water to rushing torrent can be found within the bounds of this valley. Its charms are manifold; its changes numerous. Though the advance of civilization is rapidly pushing Nature into the by-ways there are still many parts where man's interference is not great yet no part can be said to have escaped it. Where he has not turned his streams into culverts or concreted his ditches there he pastures his animals.