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OBSERVATIONS ON THE VEGETATION OF LORD 



HOWE ISLAND. 



By J. H. Maiden, Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 



(Plates I. -IV.) 



SYNOPSIS OF PAPER. 



Introductory Remarks 



Meteorology 



Some Minor Notes 



Bilbiographical Notes 



Dicotyledons 



Monocotyledons 



Cryptogams 



List of Timber Trees 



Introduced Weeds 



Edible Introduced Fruits ■. . . . 



Vegetables and Miscellaneous Food-crops 



Some Miscellaneous Introduced Plants (chiefly economic) 



Some Lord Howe Island Dishes 



Summary of Results 



Reference to Plates 



Introductory Remarks. 



I left Sydney at 3 p.m. on the 25th March last, in company 

 with Mr. Frank Farnell, M.P.,* Messrs. Robert Etheridge, Jun,, 

 and Edgar Waite, Curator and Zoologist respectively of the 

 Australian Museum, and Mr. J. A. Brodie, Visiting Magistrate, 

 bound for Lord Howe Island, in H.M.CS, "Thetis," Captain 

 Hildebrand. After a somewhat rough passage, we cast anchor 

 off the island at about 6 p m. on the 28th idem. Next 

 morning most of our party left the " Thetis " in a whaleboat 

 for the landing-place, about two miles off, which was reached 



* Member of the Royal Commission on Fisheries, and in charge of the 

 Trawling Expedition on which the "Thetis" was engaged. 



