Flora of New Zealand Series

The authors of this volume are both on the staff of the Botany Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Lucy B. Moore, M.Sc.(N.Z.), D.Sc.(Cantaur.), has published papers on avariety of botanical subjects, including marine algae and ecology as well as taxonomy of flowering plants. She was closely associated with the preparation of Volume I, to which she contributed several sections, also taking responsibility for seeing the whole through the press. The Royal Society of New Zealand, of which she is a Fellow, invited her to deliver the Cockayne Memorial Lecture in 1965. In the same year she received the Society's Hutton Memorial Medal. To a long connection with several amateur botanical societies she attributes the active collaboration of acute observers and careful collectors throughout the country.

Elizabeth Edgar, B.A., M.Sc., Ph.D.(N.Z.), when a student at Canterbury University College, included anatomy and floral biology in studies of the New Zealand species of Cotula, and later investigated the rhythms of cell division in the shoot apex of Lonicera nitida. Since joining Botany Division she has specialised in monocotyledons and has worked on various aspects of the groups allotted to her for the Flora. Her competence in classical languages, which is much appreciated and often drawn upon by her colleagues, is exemplified in a recently published translation of the preface to the Forsters' Characteres Genereum Plantarum.