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scarce : such are Marattia fraxinea howeana and Boehmeria calophleb,a. 

 Elatostema reticulatum grande is recorded by Maiden (Proc. Linn. Soc* 

 N.S.W. 23, 135, 1898) as being eaten by pigs, which devour both foliage 

 and tubers. It is impossible now to say what other plants have also been 

 suppressed in the area now overrun by these destructive animals. 



VI. LITERATURE AND HISTORY. 



1853. Proposed New Penal Settlement. Sydney. Contains a number 

 of reports on Lord Howe Island. That by J. D. Macdonald, " Remarks on 

 the Natural History and Capabilities of Lord Howe Island," contains a 

 short general account of the vegetation. Macdonald visited Lord Howe 

 Island as Assistant Surgeon on H.M.S. " Herald," which surveyed the 

 island in 1853. 



1854. J. Macgillivray, Letters from, Naturalist on H.M.S. "Herald," 

 in Hooker's Kew Journal of Botany, vi, 353. Gives a short general account 

 of the vegetation. The vascular plants collected by Milne and Macgillivray, 

 naturalists to the " Herald," are included in Bent-ham's Flora Australiensis. 



1870. Lord Howe Island : Official Visit by the Water Police Magistrate 

 and the Director oj the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Contains reports on Lord 

 Howe Island by members of a party which visited the island on official 

 business in the New South Wales Government steamer " Thetis " in May- 

 June, 1869. The report at page 17, by C. Moore, Director of the Sydney 

 Botanical Gardens, " Sketch of the Vegetation of Lord Howe Island," 

 contains a general account of the vegetation and the first published list 

 of the plants of Lord Howe Island. A hundred and nine names are given, 

 of which twenty-nine are generic names only, and nine are recorded as 

 apparently introduced, thus leaving seventy-one indigenous species. (I have 

 omitted three of Moore's species, transferred two to the list of introduced 

 plants, and consider as indigenous Sonchus oleraceus, which he lists as intro- 

 duced.) In the report by E. S. Hill, "Description of Lord Howe Island," 

 an interesting general account of the island is given, with a description 

 of the vegetation. 



1872. " Iris Robinsoniana F. v. M.," Gardeners' Chronicle, p. 393, 1872. 

 A full account of the species, with two figures. 



1872. J. G. Baker, "Ferns of Lord Howe Island," Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 p. 253, 1873. Records Alsophila excelsa, and describes as new Hemitelia 

 Moorei and Deparia nephrodioides. 



1872. C. Moore, " Remarks on the Botany of Lord Howe's Island," 

 Trans. Roy. Soc. N.S.W. 1871, p. 29. Gives a table of the genera of plants, 

 with remarks on the geographical relationships. 



1873. J. G. Baker, "New Ferns from Lord Howe Island," Journ. 

 Bot. xi, 16. Todea Moorei and Asplenium pteridoides, collected by the 

 Eclipse Expedition of 1871, are described as new. 



1874. J. G. Baker, "Tree-fern from Lord Howe Island," Journ. Bot. 

 xii, 279. States that Hemitelia Macarthuri F. Muell. is identical with 

 Cyathea Moorei Hook. & Baker. 



1875. F. v. Mueller, Fragmenta Phytographicae Australiae, ix. Mel- 

 bourne. A list is here given containing 185 names. In addition to these, 

 four other species are mentioned in numbers of the Fragmenta between 

 1873 and 1877. (I have omitted four species from Mueller's list, transferred 

 five to the list of introduced plants, and include his Marsdenia tubulosa as 

 not different from M. rostrata. Mueller's names include four generically 



