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pocket-compass, will be found sufficient and correct enough to fix the 
position of these mountains until an exact survey of this interesting 
part of the country wil be performed. The signification * Bogong 
| Range" ought to be abandoned, as the natives apply it to any of 
the lofty mountains when in the fissures of the rocks, chiefly when 
covered with the spreading Alp Pine (Podocarpus montana), the Bogong 
moth occurs. One of the main branches of the Mitta Mitta has its 
sources at Mount La Trobe, and those of another, as well as those of 
the Ovens, and Mitchell, lay in a lower range not far distant. This 
snowy highland is in many places well grassed, and the lower parts of 
it will be doubtless occupied as cattle runs as soon as the discovery of 
a workable gold-field opens this part of the Colony. The prevailing 
rock is sandstone, often accompanied by slate and quartz. Granite is 
comparatively rare.—After extending my journeys over several moun- 
tains in the neighbourhood, and an exploration of the Upper Mitta, I 
Went over a generally fertile country to Omeo. 
The amount of additional plants for the Flora of Victoria, obtained 
during this part of my expedition, is nearly sixty species, comprising 
the following genera: —Emex, Drosera, Chatospora, Gastrodia, Stylon- 
cerus, Lecanora, Chorysanthes, Cassia, Pomaderris, Plantago, Lepido- 
sperma, Decaspora, Astelia, Schidiomyrtus, Ranunculus, Veronica, Eury- 
bia, Leucopogon, Patersonia, Grevillea, Pleurandra, Tonidium, Barbarea, 
Calystegia, Viola, Hypnum, Myosotis, Cryptandra, Erysimum, Praso- 
Phyllum, Carex, Ozothamnus, Pentachondra, Jungermannia, Boronia, 
Haplopappus, Stackhousia, Pimelia, Bryum, Bartramia, Hedwigia, Oreo- 
bolus, Bellendena, Alchemilla. Several of the species are perfectly un- 
known, and nine of the genera, and one Natural Order (Asteliacee) | | 
were previously also not represented in this Colony.—It is my intention — 
to proceed without delay from here to the Cobboras, thence to Maneroo- 
and the Mungang Mountains, by which excursions the botanical exami- 
nation of the Australian Alps will be completed. FERD. MUELLER. .— 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Charles Andreas Geyer. 2 
[From a letter of Dr. H. G. Reichenbach to Dr. J. D. Hooker, we - 
