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.generally dispersed over the heathy coun¬ 
try. The Eucalypts were stringy bark, 
white gum, blue gum, and a broad-leaved 
peppermint, which in Hooker’s work is 
treated as a distinct species (Eucalyptus 
nitida). 
At the foot of Brown Mountain Mr. 
Harrison gathered two forms of unusual 
interest, one a stunted variety of blue 
gum, with short broad leaves and small 
flowers growing in threes, which resem¬ 
bled the heart-leaved gum rather closely 
in appearance. But the stalked leaves 
•and its fruit could only place it with 
Eucalyptus globulus or cause it to 
be marked as a new species. In South- 
Eastern Victoria the common form of 
Eucalyptus globulus approximates to 
this, yet, till further information should 
alter our judgment, we may well term 
this form variety Harrisoni, and as 
such I hope to record it in the transac¬ 
tions of the Koyal Society. The other 
gum was a peppermint, and appeared 
identical with the small fruiting Eu¬ 
calyptus corcifera common on the West¬ 
ern Tiers. 
A large white-flowered everlasting 
iHeliehrysiim braeteatum, var. albidum' 
was abundant. It forms an excellent 
garden plant, and seed was gathered for 
that purpose. Carnivorous plants were 
much in evidence; they belonged to two 
families, the bntterwo'rts and the sun¬ 
dews. Ot the former, the very pretty 
butterfly plant (Utricularia diehotoma) 
was in full flower, while the smaller 
species (V. lateriflora) was everywhere 
in the boggy land. Of the sundews there 
were the forked sundew (Drosera hiniita), 
the bright ml spathulate sundew (D. 
spathulutai, and the pretty little dwarf 
sundew (I): pygmiesi, whose whole struc¬ 
ture, flower and all, could have been hid¬ 
den by a sixpenny piece- 
The autumn Eriochilus and the Buck 
were the only orchids in flower. The 
little wiry parasite, Cassytha gluhella, 
was everywhere, preying with charming 
indifference on whatever plants it found 
near. Eyebright (Euphrasia Brownii) 
was one of the few plants in flower. 
Pretty berries were not numerous, but 
towards the summit of Mount Arthur 
there was a gorgeous display of coffee 
berry (Coprosma hirtella), of all shades, 
from pale scarlet to black. This plant 
is often also called native holly, which 
is a pity, foi it is neither like nor any 
relation to a holly, whereas, on the other 
hand, il is closely related to the true 
coffee plant. The (wo seeds in the fruit 
are formed like miniature coffee beans, 
and. if some enterprising naturalist will 
only gather sufficient of them, roast, 
grind, make coffee, and drink it, it will 
be of some interest to record the result. 
Port Arthur as a whole, especially the 
fern gullies, would afford interesting 
hunting for the lower forms of plant 
life, but the available time at the camp 
was all too short, and little was done to¬ 
wards collecting these groups. 
DREDGING RESULTS. 
(By Mr. C. T. Rarrisson.) 
Amongst those interested, the dredging 
during the Easter trip of the Field 
Naturalists’ Club is always looked for¬ 
ward to with the keenest interest, for 
it is from the little-worked fields of ocean 
around our coast that we expect each 
year to get our rarest and most interest¬ 
ing specimens—to yield us something 
new. Above, in the sunlight, the little 
steamer will he riding buoyantly over 
waves that sweep foam-topped under the 
flesh north-easterly breeze, the sea birds 
sailing around, and all is light and mo¬ 
tion. Below, the dredge is groping 
blindly in the dim twilight of the still 
depths, in the oozy debris of broken 
polyzoa and old sea shells, scraping a 
little here, a few feet of the sea floor 
there, yet each short drag adding to our 
knowledge of the abundant life of the 
Great Deep. Anri the means of the 
Tasmanian Field Naturalists enables 
them to deal only with the very fringe 
of this submarine world: but even in 
such comparatively shallow depths, less 
than 1(11) fathoms, a few short drags 
yields so many species of its different 
forms of life, hitherto unknown, or un¬ 
recorded from Tasmanian waters, that 
we realise something of the work still to 
be done, of the multitudinous life 
abounding, the number and variety ot 
the unknown forms that must be still 
hidden there; and of the interesting 
questions of range and distribution. And 
fascinating woik it is, prying into, in¬ 
vestigating, classifying, the wonderful, 
the beautiful, or the often grotesque in¬ 
habitants of the deeper seas. 
Although tlie dredging this year was 
somewhat disappointing, yet the small 
amount of stuff' snatched with difficulty 
from a depth of about 450 feet, is yield¬ 
ing. as usual, new and unrecorded spe¬ 
cies in the (liffeienl pylums presented— 
-peaking to us of what might be done it 
means only allowed of less haphazard, 
more systematic work being carried out. 
On March dd. after taking a large 
party from Safety Cove to the port, the 
Koomeela steamed out of Rort Arthur, 
south, with the dredging party on board. 
The first trial was made about two miles 
from the entrance, in about 50 fathoms, 
hut the dredge came up empty after both 
drags. The Koomeela thin steamed out 
