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the old Anderson's Bay railway line, there formerly grew 

 tufts of a little fern (Cheilaiithes ten-uifoUa) which we 

 must reckon among the things of the past. At Black 

 Jack's Point, near where the stone-crusher now stands, 

 there used to be a fine specimen of the long-leaved heath, 



A long-leaved heath (Dracophylhtin longijoliuni), 



Dracophyllum longifolium, over 20 feet high. It was 

 apparently the last of its tribe within a radius of some 

 miles, but it was destroyed when the railway line was 

 made. Similarly the making of the roadway round the 

 further side of Pelichet Bay cleared away many of the last 



