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after about two hours' hard pulling. The weather continued 

 to increase in violence, so that return to the ship became 

 impossible that da}'. Kext day the weather increased in severity 

 to a gale, and finally, on the afternoon of the 31st March, 

 the " Thetis " broke her anchors and steamed for Sydney, which 

 she reached after a perilous voyage, arriving with bunkers almost 

 empty on the morning of the 4th April. She returned as soon 

 as she could coal, &c., and was sighted off the island early on the 

 morning of the 7th, took her passengers aboard again, got under 

 weigh at 4 p.m., and after a pleasant run of 44 hours, arrived in 

 Port Jackson at noon on the 9th April. 



We were thus on the island nine days, but the weather was so 

 boisterous for part of the time, and the rain so incessant, that 

 collecting was seriously intei'fered with. Fortunately I had 

 brought my vascula and presses ashore in the whaleboat, so that 

 things might have been far worse. I botanised as high up as 

 1 200 feet, reaching that elevation on two occasions, and went over 

 the greater part of the island. Ascent to the top of either Mt. 

 Gower or Mt. Lidgbird was physically impossible, as there is no 

 shelter; this remains a pleasurable task to be undertaken at a 

 favourable season. It is, of course, near the summits of the 

 mountains that one is most likely to find additions to the flora of 

 the island. 



Examination of my collections has been greatly facilitated Ijy 

 reference to Mr. "VV. B. Hemsley's excellent " Flora of Lord 

 Howe Island "* In the lists that follow I have not repeated the 

 name of a species in Mr Hemsley's list unless I have some 

 additional information (however small) in regard to it. Most of 

 the species enumerated by Mr. Hemsley were collected by me 

 and are now in the herbarium of the Sydney Botanic Gardens. 

 I have arranged my plants in the sequence adopted by Mr. 

 Hemsley, and my observations may be looked upon as supple- 

 menting his work. 



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