Thomas Reedy (1842-1929), gardener from 1854-1926 at Camden Park, the family estate of the Macarthursin western Sydney was sent by Sir William Macarthur on the Chevert Expedition to New Guinea in 1875. He collectedplants on islands off the Queensland coast; Cape Grenville; around the Somerset outpost on the tip of Cape York; onislands in the Torres Strait; and around two locations on the mainland of southern Papua New Guinea. Reedy sent orbrought back 800-1000 living plants, in addition to an unknown number of seeds, and at least 157 dried specimens, thelatter sent to Baron Ferdinand von Mueller in Melbourne. This study is focused on locating the dried plant specimensnow held in herbaria and highlighting their significance.Reedy is something of an enigma with little ever written about him. His initial has been presented erroneously since1875 and has gone through various morphs including J, P, M and T; searches for Reedy best use all these initials orjust his family name.

The riparian rainforest on the streamside levees of the coastal floodplain of the Clarence River on the North Coast of New South Wales was cleared during the 1860s by small landholders seeking fertile land. Only three small remnants remain. Using a combination of historical species lists, corner trees from surveyors' portion plans, habitat information and the NSW Scientific Committee's (1999) determination for lowland rainforest on floodplain a conceptual model of the original distribution of rainforest suballiances on the levees of the Clarence River coastal floodplain is proposed. Cunninghamia (2014) 14: 153-178 doi:10.7751/cunninghamia.2014.14.008

Spring wetlands on the Strathbogie plateau were mapped using recent aerial photography to estimate their current and former extent.The floristic composition and relationships of the vegetation with topographic, environmental and land use variables were interpreted from an analysis of quadrat data.Wetland condition, threats to their persistence and future management requirements were also identified.More than half of the original wetland vegetation in the study area appears to have been lost, probably as a result of clearing for agriculture.Nine floristic assemblages, identified using agglomerative hierarchical clustering, were identified on acidic to mildly alkaline peat in five different hydrogeomorphic settings.One of these assemblages (Low Open Sedgeland) was uniquely confined to spring-fed mounds, not previously described in Victoria.A key to identification of these groups was developed.Floristic composition was correlated with climate and site disturbance but charcoal throughout sediment cores suggested that historical disturbance regimes included fire.Forested sites at higher elevations where grazing pressure appears to have been less intense were the least disturbed sites.Approximately 60% of the wetlands surveyed were assessed as showing signs of soil moisture loss but there was no evidence that water extraction via dams and known bores was a significant driver of current vegetation composition.Threats requiring management were related to habitat destruction and degradation, dysfunction of physical and biological processes, and changes to disturbance regimes.Establishment of native vegetation buffers and biomass management are likely to be of benefit for future management of spring wetland vegetation.