236 BOTANY OF VICTORIA. 
like Oreobolus, a slender procumbent Pentachondra ?, a monostachyous 
Carex, a rooting Gnaphalium, a very distinct Plantago, and a smooth 
Craspedia (C. leucantha), with white flowers and sphacelate scales. 
At the highest mountains on stony ground I was not a little struck 
with a diandrous plant allied to Veronica, having the leaves densely 
crowded in four rows. Accompanied it was with a small hispid Haplo- 
pappus and with a moss-like tufted Arenaria ? 
The Ranunculaceous Caltha-like plant with inward bent leaves, to 
which I previously referred, is frequent enough on the Munzang 
Mountains, and after having seen it in a more advanced state I am 
much inclined to refer it to Caltha. I am however entirely deprived of 
books during the expedition, so as to settle these questions at once. 
Singularly enough, Carex stellulata fell into my hands abundantly in 
some parts of the Alps, occurring like Alchemilla vulgaris and Veronica 
serpyllifolia? None were in the lowland. Lycopodium varium, which 
appears hardly to be distinct from L. Selago, and Botrychium Lunaria, 
belong also to the higher country. But one of the most interesting 
additions to our Alps flora forms undoubtedly a little annual Euphrasia. 
Orites, the species from Mount Hotham, I saw ranging for miles along 
with a fine ovate-leaved lepidote Eriostemon or Phebalium : it has always 
entire leaves, and I may therefore consider it as a new species (Orites 
planifolia). Coprosma nitida is not rare in the Snowy Mountains, and 
two herbaceous plants, apparently new, of the same family, were also 
discovered in the lower country, together with a second species of Sole- 
- nogyne (S. pubescens), a Velleya, which in Stuart’s Herbarium I called 
V. exigua, a Rutidosis, Y suppose R. helichrysoides, Scirpus Rothii (S. 
triqueter, R. Br.), and a very distinct glandular Calotis. Two interest- 
ing Mosses were growing on rocks which are constantly washed by the 
. melting snow, one of them adding the genus Andreea to the flora of 
After having traversed now the main chains of the Snowy Moun- 
tains in so many directions, that I am led to believe that the plants men- 
tioned in this and the two previous letters, together with those noticed 
in my reports, comprehend almost completely the Alps flora of this 
continent, I wandered for days over the Snowy Mountains without 
being able to add a single species to the collections. I should be 
lighted, Sir William, in finding, after my return, Dr. Hooker's Flora 
of New Zealand, and what may be printed of the Flora of Tasmania, 
