168 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
Miss Mabel Brewster also supplied a most interesting 
account of Crickets and their playful ways. A fuller ac- 
count will be given in The Naturalist later on. 
Miss Brewster, Mr. Carpenter, and others gave much 
assistance. Socially the excursion could not have been 
more successful, and when the members parted on Haster 
Monday evening, it was with regret that so enjoyable a 
holiday had to be put away with the pleasant memories 
of the past. 
K. 8. Epwarps. 
BOTANICAL NOTES OF THE EASTER EXCURSION 
TO PORT HACKING. 
The flora generally is that of the southern sea coast; 
the solitary representative of the north coast Flora noted 
which had survived the climatic change was a Composite, 
Enhydra fluctuans, a straggling beach-swamp habitue col- 
lected at Marly Beach. A tangled thicket of these plants 
was observed by Miss A. Brewster scrambling among the 
Cyperaceous growth; and Miss Austin noted the somewhat 
obscure flowers, partly hidden in the axils of the leaves or 
the forks of the branches, and not readily noticed, owing 
to the non-production of coloured ray florets. This com- 
posite (the most interesting botanical specimen collected ) 
has not previously been recorded south of Manly, but there 
are specimens in the National Herbarium collected at Kur- 
nell by Mr. J. L. Boorman, which, together with an ex- 
ample from Tintenbar (Richmond River) constitutes the 
whole of the Herbarium material. At the Easter excursion 
(Tuggerah Lakes) last year, the most important find was 
also a straggling beach-swamp Composite (Hcl ypta platy- 
glossa. A somewhat unusual form of the well-named (poly- 
morphous) Plantago varia, with succulent leaves (due to 
its saline environment) was found in the crevices of the. 
rocks, and on the beach-strand the compact, herbaceous, 
Senecio spathulatus, whose leaves have become veritable 
reservoirs for the storage of fresh water. Bramia indica, 
a creeper with white flowers, grows in the moist sand of 
the lagoons, intermixed with its blue-flowered relative, 
Mimulus repens, ‘the Creeping Monkey Flower.’’ On the 
