Hunt, in `Three Essays on Australian Weather'(Sydney), p. 164: We entered a beautiful fern-tree grove, that also concealedthe heavens from view, spreading like a plantation or cocoa-nuttree orchard, but with far more elegance and effect. The word is Hawaiian (Sandwich Islands). a fern (Marattiafraxinea, Smith) with a large part edible, sc.
y be continually heard; but nowhere more sothan on going up the harbour to Paramatta, when a little abovethe Flats.
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