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berry lias a seed. The leaves and branches taste like sorrel, 
and have been used as an antiscorbutic medicine. We 
take some credit to ourselves in having been the first to 
bring this plant into notice, since it now forms one of 
the greatest ornaments in most of the gardens in Hobart 
Town, in covering arbours, fences, &c. Its growth is 
extraordinary, the young shoots growing several inches 
in one night, and in the course of a single season it will 
entirely cover the largest arbour, or run up and cover a 
high wall ; at a distance it has the appearance of ivy. 
Art. III. On a New Species of Encrinita (Encrinus 
Australis). By the Rev. C. Pleydell N. Wilton, 
M.A.,F.C.P.S., Cor. M.T.S., Member of the Aslinio- 
lean Society of Oxford, &c. &c. 
In the year 1834, one of the Aboriginal blacks of 
Newcastle, on the River Hunter, brought me a fragment 
of a marine animal, evidently an Encrinite, which he 
had taken out of the water from amongst the rocks at 
low tide, and which I conjectured to be a new variety. 
Subsequent observations upon perfect specimens having 
confirmed this conjecture, I have distinguished this 
species by the name of Encrinus Australis. 
The Encrinus Australis has no vertebral column, but 
its body, which is about Jth of an inch in length, is ter¬ 
minated in that direction by a circular base; the 
circumference of the body being indented by three rows 
of irregularly shaped hollow sections, each furnished with 
a circular orifice, to which the several tentacula of about 
80 joints, and curving inwards towards their extremities, 
are appended, and by which the animal attaches itself to 
the seaweed, which adheres to the bottom of the water- 
