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Miscellanea. 
appendix to Captain Grey’s Travels in North-west and Western 
Australia. 
The secretary read an account of the Cider-tree of Tasmania 
(Eucalyptus Gunnii), published by Dr. J. D. Hooker in the 
London Journal of Botany , vol. iii. page 496. 
The first four parts of Dr. Hooker’s beautiful work, the Flora 
Antarctica were shown, and the descriptions of various new Tas¬ 
manian plants therein first described, noticed; viz., Coprosma 
repens , Hook. fil., found on Lord Auckland’s and Campbell’s 
Islands. Celmisia astelicefolia, MSS., and Richea pandanifolia, 
Hook.fil., supposed to be the largest of the natural family Epa- 
cridese; specimens seen by Mr. R. C. Gunn west of Lake St. 
Clair, measuring 36J feet in height, without a branch. 
Mr. Gunn mentioned that he had found recently on the sum¬ 
mit of the western mountains a species of Gaultheria in fruit — 
which grew in clusters of a beautiful pink or rose colour—very 
distinct from G. liispida. The present plant has creeping stems, 
grows usually six to nine inches high, covering patches of ground 
several feet in diameter. The leaves and stems are hispid ; very 
similar in form, but smaller, than those of G . hispida. This is 
the fourth species in Ericece found in Tasmania. 
An interesting case of that singular disease Cyanosis or morbus 
cceruleus was exhibited to the members, in the person of a boy 
aged twelve years. The disease was evidently owing to conge¬ 
nital malformation of the heart; the function of nutrition had 
been very imperfectly performed, his countenance was swollen 
and livid, and he showed a great deficiency in both physical and 
mental development. 
Mr. James Grant exhibited a specimen of a curious Lamprey, 
(Petromyzon?), fifteen inches in length, from the Meander or 
Western River, with a large bag under the mouth. This species 
appears to have been hitherto undescribed. It is stated to be 
also found in the other rivers of the colonv. 
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