116 VEGETATION OF LORD HOWE ISLAND 



This brilliant idea was borrowed from Tasmania, and the odour 

 of the decaying shark would drive away the aphis from a cabbage 

 patch, for example. I should imagine that it would drive away 

 the owner too. 



Vernacular names are applied to plants on the island with 

 great unanimity, and also with absence of variety; this is doubt- 

 less to be attributed to the smallness of the population and the 

 frequent occasions on which they associate with one another. 



Most of the male population have been sea-faring men and 

 have spent much of their time in the tropical South Sea Islands. 

 In consequence they are very apt to give names to plants on 

 account of their resemblance to those growing in Fiji, Samoa and 

 other places I have alluded to this on p. 126. 



In other respects there is a slight tendency to depart from the 

 English of the mainland. Thus hills are called "ribs," and creeks 

 (especially mountain creeks) are known as "runs." 



Bibliography. 



I give some bibliographical references to supplement those given 

 by Hemsley, at p. 283 (op. cif.) and also the introduction to his 

 Flora. Nos. 1-5 I have given at some length, partly because at 

 the present time most of the publications are rare, and partly 

 because it is necessary that the references in so important a 

 publication as Hemsley's work should be as explicit as possible. 

 For the sake of uniformity I have followed Hemsley in quoting 

 Nos. 3 and 5 in my paper, although I should have preferred to 

 quote No. 2 as a matter of convenience. 



1. — IS 70. Legislative Assembly. New South Wales. Lord 

 Howe Island. — Official visit by the Water Police Magis- 

 trate and the Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney; 

 together with a description of the Island, by Edward S. 

 Hill. Ordered by the Legislative Assembly to be printed, 

 15 February, 1870. Folio, pp. 20, with one map (Reduc- 

 tion from H. F. White's Survey of Lord Howe Island, 

 1835). 



