174 MR. S. MOORE ON THE FLORA 
mining encampment. From this place, I, accompanied by our 
Afghan and the camels, made for Coolgardie vid Yilgangie and 
Uladdie, with the object of procuring a fresh supply of food. 
On my return to the Hawk’s Nest, we started for the diggings 
near Lake Darlót; but the country being very dry, we remained 
a few days camped at Mackenzie's well, fourteen miles north- 
east of Mount Margaret, as a long waterless stage intervened 
between us and our destination. A timely storm enabled us to 
push forward, and, passing the Darlót diggings, we erossed the 
salt lake Darlót, and made for some high granite rocks fourteen 
miles to the northward, where there was au abundant supply of 
water. At that time provisions at Darlöt were at famine prices, 
and we consequently found ourselves forced to relinquish our 
intention of travelling further north ; and, making a track through 
the bush, we returned to our main encampment at Mackenzie's 
well. From here the whole party set out along the Darlót 
road, with the object of camping at a creek where there was 
plenty of water; and it was during a stay of three weeks at this 
last camp, while some of the party were away on a distant expe- 
dition, that I was able to do a little collecting. Here I found 
inter alia the pretty little Zonidium floribundum, Walp., in some 
plenty ; also Abutilon Fraseri, Hock., and its var. parviflora, 
Benth., Dodonea filifolia, Hook., Acacia aneura, Benth., Micro- 
myrtus imbricata, R. Br., Canthium latifolium, F. Muell., Pluchea 
Dentex, R. Br., Eremophila leucophylla, Benth., and E. latifolia, 
F. Muell., and a curious dwarf variety (var. rosulata, nob.) of 
Nicotiana suaveolens, Lehm., &e. Nor was | unsuccessful in the 
seareh for new species, e. g., Eremophila metallicorum, Hemigenia 
exilis, and the pretty rose-flowered Felleia rosea. 
We had been five months on our travels, and our stock of 
provisions getting low, our faces were turned to the south. 
Travelling by way of Doyle's well, Mount George, and Goon- 
garrie, we arrived at Coolgardie on June 27th, and after a short 
delay there, fixed our camp at Gibraltar, sixteen miles south- 
west of the mining capital. It was now the depth of winter; 
the days were cool and the nights intensely cold. A considerable 
quantity of rain had fallen, and herbaceous vegetation showed 
itself in fair abundance, aud as spring approached the desert began 
to wear quite a pleasing appearance. Grasses threw up their 
haulms, and lowly Crucifers and Umbellifers, Calandrinias, Zygo- 
phyllums, Erodiums, Droseras, Goodenias (Goodenia heterophylla 
