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bearing a small pink flower ; and having had my attention thus 
directed to it, I watched it ¢ eines on every opportunity that 
offered, and ‘find that it is carnivorous, preymg upon gnats, 
mosquitoes, and such small winyeee sat it is botanically known 
as Drosera peltata. 
eed, however, grows on swampy or damp granitic or 
elvanite fate and it is in those localities that the “aiaig disease 
is generally contracted. Whether the plant really has 
to do with it, on cannot of course say ; but I think it se likely 
hat ihe disease arises from the auimald 3 inhaling some miasmatie 
atmosphere aetna in those localities to which the plant is 
peculiar. 
The apple tree (Angophera Linas velutina) occurs in some localities 
petiole of from half to three-quarters of an inch in length, givin 
the tree the appearence of having been influenced by hybridization. 
In other respects I have been unable to trace any differences 
between 
setters ver, 
the vegetation is characterized by plants which seldom, if ever, 
occur in granitic soils. The yellow ironbark (No. 17), Eucaly, tus 
leucoaylon, and the common ironbark (No. 18), Eucalyptus side- 
rophloia, occupy the most conspicuous ce pick in the forest, and are 
frequently accompanied by a stunted red gum (a smooth-barked 
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tree, attaining a height of fifteen to twenty feet, with a diam 
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seldom exceeding twelve inches), and occasionally by stringy- 
bark. In the warmer porhons, such as at or near the base of 
Dumaresq Rixer, and whext the chatacter: of the rock merges 
hibited by specimens N os. Ol an 
i timbers generally on this ae of soil are bala and do 
not attain that luxuriant growth which marks most of the 
: vegetation | occurring on granite. This is frequently more marked 
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