289' 
It may here be added, that all the specimens of Cibotium, examined at that period on the Tomah 
Mountain, had young seedlings of the Quintinia growing on their trunks, upon which, being well rooted, 
they assumed all the habit and aspect of some kinds of wild fig in intratropical regions, that live and grow 
as well without earth, in the hollow branch or trunk of a tree, as they do when they happen to fall to the 
ground and there take root. .(Memorandum, 2nd Dec., 1823, A.C.) 
(Florae Insularum Novae Zelandise Precursor ; or a specimen of the Botany of the 
Islands of New Zealand. By Allan Cunningham, in Annals of Natural History, ii, 
p. 356.) 
The Cibotium is the tree-fern now known as Dicksonia Billardieri. 
In response to my invitation to my readers to favour me with the names of trees 
which start life on a tree-fern, my good friend Mr. E. E. Pescott, Director of the School 
of Horticulture at Burnley, Victoria, had the kindness to supply me with the following : 
Dear Mr. Maiden, 
In a recent issue of your " Forest Flora of New South Wales " you invite your readers to advise 
you of their observations of trees, &c., having germinated from seed and growing on the stems of tree- 
ferns : so I am sending along my small contribution. This, of course, does not include such epiphytal 
plants as the various species of Polypodium, Trichomanes, Hymenophyllum, Aspidium, and Fieldia 
australis, &c. 
The most common tree growing from the tree-fern is Acacia melanoxylon R.Br., and that is to be 
met with in almost any fern gully. It is rather interesting that Acacia seeds should germinate so frequently 
in fern trunks, seeing that they are hard-coated seeds. 
The next common is Coprosma Billardieri J. Hooker, and this is often seen. 
I have met four species of Pomaderris on the ferns, viz., P. ligustrina Sieber, P. elliptica Labill., 
P. apetala Labill., and P. racemosa Hook. 
Others less common were Eugenia Smithii Poiret, Tristania laurina R.Br., Fagus Cunninghami 
Hooker, and Prostanthera lasiantha Labill. Of the latter tree, there is a fine specimen growing from a fern 
in the Botanic Gardens at Launceston, Tasmania. 
Of climbing plants that have germinated in fern trunks, I have observed the following : Marsdenia 
rostrata R.Br., Tecoma auslralis R.Br., Passiflora cinnabarina Lindley, Celastrus australis Harvey and 
F.v.M., and Vitis hypoglauca F.v.M. 
The germination of Eucalyptus seeds in fern trunks, so far as my observations go, is very rare, and 
only twice have I noticed our gum trees so growing, and these were Eucalyptus macrorrhyncha F.v.M., 
and E. botryoides Smith, and in each case the plants were quite young. Sincerely yours, 
(Signed) ED. E. PESCOTT. 
PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION. 
Atfierosperma moschata growing on tree fern (Dicksonia antarctica). Ringarooma, Tasmania. (Photo, 
K. Kennedy.) 
Part LVIII. 
Appendix. Enemies of Trees. (I.) Meteorological, (c) Wind. 
PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. 
A. A Cypress Pine (Callitris robugta R.Br.) tree after the cyclone on 5th January, 1912. This is 
only one of hundreds smashed down. Carnbo Cambo Station, Collarenebri District, N.S.W. 
(Photo, S. W. Jackson.) 
N.B. The thin trees at the back on the left are sand ridge Honeysuckle (Canthium 
oleijolium). Throws off a vanilla-like perfume from the blossoms in January. 
B. Wind-blown trees. Stanley, North- West Coast, Tasmania. (Photo, K. Kennedy.) 
