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Vegetable Productions 
To a person, however, lost in the bush, or unin¬ 
habited wilds of Tasmania, and compelled to have re* 
course to its indigenous plants for his support, much 
would necessarily depend upon the locality where, and 
the season when, he was lost, as to the means he would 
possess of obtaining food; and whether it was on the 
sea-coast, on the tops or sides of the rugged mountains, 
in the open bush, in a myrtle forest, or in a dense 
ravine, he must look for the productions peculiar to each : 
for few of those I have enumerated can be said to be 
universally diffused. 
I shall now briefly allude to them as they would occur 
in these different situations; and as I have already men¬ 
tioned, under the respective heads, what parts of the 
plants are available, I shall merely subjoin the names. 
On the Sea-coast the following plants occur— 
Oxalis microphylla , or wood-sorrel. 
Correa alba , or Cape Barren tea. 
Acacia Sophora , and other species. 
Rubus macropodus , common bramble. 
Accena sanguisorba , burr. 
Lcptospermum , tea tree. 
Melaleuca , ditto. 
Mcsembryanthcnnnn cequilaterale , pigs’ faces. 
Sambucus Gaudichaudiana , elder. 
Leucopogon Richei , currant. 
Astroloma humifusa , cranberry. 
Solarium luciniatum , kangaroo apple. 
Ckenopodea*, of different species. 
Exocarpus cupressiformis , cherry tree. 
Leptomeria Billardieri . 
Casuarina quadrivulvis .—This is not seen in the 
north west of the Colony. 
Orchidca> , of species. 
Xanthorrhcea , of species, grass tree, 
