THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 147 
GOOSEBERRY ISLAND. 
The name “Gooseberry” is very appropriate for this is- 
land, as the ‘‘Cape Gooseberry,’’ a South American species 
known to botanists as Physal’s Peruviana and belonging to 
the family Solanaceae, occurs in abundance. f 
The island is rich in brush plants, the most conspicuous 
being the “‘Giant Nettle Tree,” Laportea gigas, Hibiscus 
heterophyllus, Myrsine vartubiiis, Hvodia micrococeu, Hucus 
stephanocarpus, Phyllanthus, Gastroemit, Bre,nia, oblongi- 
folia, and some very fine trees of the ‘‘native plum,’’ Podo= 
carpus elata and the ‘‘Black Apple,’’ Achras australis, 
Hlaeodendron australe, Albizzia jrurmosa and many other 
large shrubs and trees. 
The largest trees geen gn the island were some magnificent 
specimens of Ficus rubigenosa, commonly known as the 
“Port Jackson Fig.’’ In the forks of these were some fine 
clumps of the ‘‘Elkhorn Fern,” Llatycerum alcicorne. Seve- 
ral climbing plants were also noticed, the largest being 
Palmeria scandens, a vigorous climbing shrub with very stout 
branches, of the family Monimiaceae, and also some strong 
twining plants of Lyonsia straminea, Stephania hernandt- 
folia and Glectonoplesium cymosuwm, as well as an introduced 
climber Senecio scandens, which belongs to the family Com- 
positae, and commonly known as ‘‘Cape Ivy.’”’ Some speci- 
mens of a Solanum violacewm, a pretty  bluish-flowering 
species, was also collected by one of the members. A number 
of smaller plants were very plentiful on the island, the most 
conspicuous being (ommelinu cyaner, a trailing plant with 
bluish flowers, Hranthemum variabile, and Plectanthus pars 
viflorus, as well ag three species of obnoxious plants, Urtica 
incisa, the stinging-nettle, Nyssanthes” erecta, a plant with 
axillary clusters of flowers supported with spinescent bracts 
and bracteoles, as well as Bidens pilosa, which has achenes 
with rigid retrosely hispid bristles, which hang into one’s 
clothes. 
There were two grasses very common on the island, one 
was Microlaena stipoides, the ‘‘Native Rice Grass,’’ and a 
broad and narrow-leaved form of Oplismenus composita. 
A number of extremely interesting lichens was seen on 
the trunks of several of the trees, bus as the time was so 
limited, only a few were collected, which includes Ramalina 
Eckloni var., Usmea sp. near U. scabrida. two species of 
Lecidea, and some beautiful specimens of Glyphis. 
Of fungi, the most common species were as follow— 
Guepinia spathulata, Trametes ochroleuca, Pentophora, sp., 
and two species of Polystictus. 
