BA THE, VICTORIAN. NATURALIST 
‘ Asperifolize Cynoglossum suaveolens. 
Myoporinze Myoporum serratum, eae “y 
‘Epacride Styphelia virgata; S, Riche. -Epacris impressa; 
E. obtusifolia, th 
Orchidez Thelymitra ixioides; T. aristata; T. longifolia; 
T. carnea; T. flexusa; T. antennifera:. Diuris 
palustris; D. maculata; D. pedunculata; D. 
sulphurea; D. longfolia. Calochilus campestris. 
Prasophyllum flavum; P. elatum; P. fuscum; P. 
species. Microtis atrata. Pterostylis curta; P. 
nutans; P. pedunculata; P. cucullata; P. barbata; 
wae mutica; P. longifolia. Lyperanthus nigricans. 
Rola dens Menziesii; C. Patersoni (two varieties); 
C. latifolia; C. suaveolens; C. carnea (three 
varieties). Chiloglottis Gunmii. Glossodia major. 
Liliacez Burchardia umbellata. Dianella longzfolza. 
Bulbine bulbosa. Chamescilla corymbosa. 
Arthropodium  strictum. Xerotes Thumbergit. 
Aanthorrhea minor. 
Restiaceze Calostrophus fastigzatus. 
ON THE SANITARY PROPERTIES OF EUCALYPTS. 
By Rey. W. Wooutts, Ph.D., F.L.8., Hon. Mempur F.N.C. 
Read before the Field Naturalists’ Club of Victoria, Sept. 14th, 1885 
From careful observations which have been made for some years 
past, it has been found that some species of our Kucalypts have 
wonderful powers of absorption, and that H. Globulus, in particular, 
. has the property of mitigating the influences of malaria, A writer 
in an English periodical gives it as his opinion that a large Eucalypt 
will dispose of a yast amount of house sewage, and thus. prevent the 
development of typhoid fever and other diseases which are supposed 
_ to arise from imperfection of drainage and impurity of atmosphere. 
The same writer, however, adds by way of caution, that such trees 
should be kept far away from good wells, ‘“ as the insatiable thirst 
of these vegetable monsters (Eucalypts)” has ja tendency to dry up 
the sources of supply. He mentions as a fact that the owner of 
Bay Island Farm, Alameda County, recently found a curious root 
formation of an Eucalypt in the bottom of his well, about sixteen 
feet below the,surface, though the tree to which the roots belonged 
stood fifty feet from the well. This he regarded as an excellent 
illustration of the way in which an Eucalypt absorbs moisture, “ its 
roots going so far as to find water, pushing \themselves through @ 
