yielding Food for Man. 
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open hills of that district, it is to be detected in the early 
part of summer, by observing the ground when bursting 
upwards as with something swelling under it, which is 
this fungus. 
I have now closed my list of the vegetable productions 
of this Island, which, so far as I yet know, can in any 
way be rendered available for the sustenance of man. 
Not one of them is of sufficient value to be worthy of the 
attention of the agriculturist or horticulturist; and it 
would also be a matter of difficulty to classify their pro¬ 
ducts according to the relative importance of each as 
articles of food. Mr. Backhouse, however, arranged his 
list as follows :— 
Those yielding Roots— 
P ter is esculent a, or common fern. 
Gastrodia Sesamoides and Orchidece. 
Cybotium Pillardieri , or tree fern. 
Fungus on Fagus Cunninghamii. 
Native Bread. 
Mushroom. 
Sedgy plant on sea-coast. 
Xanthorrhcea species. 
The Fruits as follows— 
Solanum laciniatum , or kangaroo apple. 
Mesembryanthemum cequilatcrale , or pigs’ faces. 
Polygonum adpressum? or Macquarie Harbour grape. 
Gaultheria hispida , or wax cluster. 
Astroloma humifusu 9 or cranberry. 
Leucopogon Rickei , and other Epacridece. 
Yielding Leaves to allay thirst— 
O.vails micropliylla , and Casuarina quadrivalvis . 
And then followed the plants whose leaves were used 
as substitutes for tea ; and the Chenopodcce , which mi°*ht 
be boiled and eaten as greens. 
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