174 JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY INTO 



Hab. Oil the under surface of living leaves. Sikkim, at Darjeeling. 

 (Dr. Hooker.) 



The sori are from S-5 lines broad, and are surrounded by a white 

 reticulated border, consisting of abortive peridia. The external peridium 

 is rather thicker than usual; there is no columella. The flocci are white 

 and well developed; the spores globose, 2-5^5- of an inch in diameter. 



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Areyria punicea^ P. 



Hab. On decayed wood. E.Nepal; Bheti,4000 feet. (Dr. Hooker.) 

 The spores are slightly smaller than in British specimens. 



{To be continued.) 



Report of a Jotjbney or Discovery into the Interior of Western 



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Australia, between Wi September^ 1848, and Srd February^ 1849; 

 by J. S. EoE, Esq., Surveyor-General. 



{Continued from ^, 151.) 



On 14th of December we resumed our examination down the river, 

 eagerly examining every accessible cliff we met, but discovering no 

 shales. Granite or gneiss, with a large proportion of hornblende in it, 

 was in contact with these cliffs, and did not raise our immediate hopes 

 of coal; nevertheless, at half a mile within the mouth of the river, 

 a mass of dark red sandstone projected from its right bank into a deep 

 navigable reach, seventy yards across, and indicated a closer proximity 

 to the object of our search. The water was here quite salt, and about 

 twenty feet deep, tenanted by many fine large fish, resembling bream, 

 upwards of a foot in length, which resisted the most tempting induce- 

 ments we could hold out to them to take a bait. Below this spot the 

 shores, both of the river and of a fine large estuary which received it, 

 were low and sandy, and no more sandstone was seen to crop out upon 

 them. 



In less than a mile from the mouth of this river, our western course 

 Avas arrested by the open deep reach of another, at least 250 yards 

 across, coming from the northward and flowing into the same estuary. 

 Having ascertained that its mouth, which was a quarter of a mile lower 



down, and divided into two open channels, was not fordable, I com- 

 menced its examination upwards. The low level banks soon rose to 

 more undulating land, of light sandy character, clothed with some good 

 grass extending half a mile back, and growing among Nuyla'Ks^ gigantic 



