33 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Proteacex, several species of Leucopogon and Woolsia pungens 
(Epacrides), os tia cree wie #), Boronia and Zieria (Ruta- 
ces), Pomader 
-yldions and Casuarina suberosa. ine with Mr. Maiden also 
a pilgrimage to the classic spot at Kurnell on Botany 
Bay, w ha ere Captain Cook landed from the “ Endeavour” with 
Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander in 1770, and formally took 
possession of the pene for Great Britain. The place is practi- 
cally unchanged—a column marks the landing-place, and a little 
to the left is the raat stream of vier at which the crew were 
refreshed. Nearer the entrance to the Bay rise the cliffs from 
which the little expedition was itentanied by natives; the 
opposing capes which guard the entrance bear the names given 
by Cook—Cape Banks and Cape Solander. On the other side 
of the Bay, opposite Kurnell, rises a column in memory of La 
Perouse, the French navigator, who touched there in 1778. He 
was never heard of —_ but more than thirty years later the 
i Wellington. 
was at Day’s Bay, where an area of rca consisting of more 
than 600 acres, has been recently acquired as a Natural History 
Reserve. The gullies contain a luxuriant rain-forest vegetation, 
a rich fern-flora with tree-ferns—Cyathea dealbata a nd medullaris, 
a wonderful diversity of filmy ferms — sittin nd great 
patches of Trichomanes reniforme. Among the numerous lianes 
are Metrosideros (Myr Esra Rubus australis, Clematis mono- 
phyla, Griese heterophylla (Apocynacez), a fern, Siete 
Fisforms, showing m ackbe haters ophylly, ph st Banksii, and 
the remarkable bilingdotie Ehipogonum scandens (aptly named 
supple-jack) ; the Reishee are loaded with e epiphytes, including 
numerous ferns, but the most conspicuous is Astelia Solandrt 
ar 
reca sapida, the core okies pe opanax, the long leaves form- 
ing the crown of which become strikingly narrower as the plant 
cts older, Knightia excelsa, Weinmannia racemosa, and on the 
drier slopes tall specimens of the a beech, ee 
two species of which were noted, N. fuse N. Solandri e, 
too, one finds T'mesipteris, the archaic fe m pe On the higher 
parts Nothofagus gives place to the rata, Metrosideros, and some 
of the epiphytes become terrestrial, notably Astelia, which seems 
to thrive rere well in either condition; a terrestrial Dendro- 
bium, D. Cunninghamit, grows with a cane-like stem like a tiny 
bamboo. Asuka trip was to a taxad forest, where the slopes of the 
gully bore a very mixed wood, including fine trees of Dacrydium 
eupressoides and Podocarpus dacrydioides ; the very bottom of the 
gully, through which ran a stream, was a veritable fern paradise. 
nan area so typ ically New Zealand in character, it was inte- 
Soma to note the intrusion of our northern flora; at one = plats 
the stream was crisp with a splendid crop of watercress, while 
