360 BOTANY OF VICTORIA. 
sotome simplicifolia, Hpacris heteronema, Myriophyllum simplicifolium, 
Pimelea ligustrina, a species of Andreea (unfortunately not found in 
fruit), and a Patersonia, which I shall call, as the only lrideous plant 
here to be found at such a height, P. subalpina : it appears to be quite 
distinct from P. sericea, a plant of the warmer parts of Australia; I 
saw only the decayed seed-vessels of it, whilst P. longiscapa and P. 
glauca are nearly out of flower in the lower country; the leaves are 
4—6 inches long, ciliated, unequally streaked ; the scape is half as long 
as the leaves, compressed upwards, and thickened, and throughout, 
with the spatha, silky-pubescent. 
In the country between Melbourne and Mount Wellington Tobserved 
little of interest. Additions to my list were Emex australis, Drosera 
spathulata, Chetospora mniaroides, Gastrodia sesamoides, Pterostylis 
- acuminata, Lecanora byssacea, a Chorizanthes (growing out of the stems 
of the tree-ferns), a few additional Mosses, a splendid Cassia, which 
may be new, a pretty Pomaderris, with which as yet T am unacquainted, 
a Lepidosperma, probably distinct from L. flexuosum; a Hurybia; an ex- 
cellent Grevillea, belonging to Section Lissostylis, forming a considera- 
— ble bush, with flat, large, ovate leaves, downy beneath: this Grevillea 
is undescribed in Robert Brown's * Prodromus, but perhaps exists 
amongst Sieber's or Cunningham’s plants. Finally, I have yet to men- 
tion a Daviesia, almost intermediate between D. latifolia and D. rusci- 
folia, with heart-shaped, dark green, shining leaves, which are sessile 
and smaller than in D. Zatifolia, but participate in their bitterness (native 
Hop); the racemes are corymbose; it differs from D. ruscifolia in its 
leaves and twigs not being pungent: a kind of Plewrandra, perhaps 
distinct from P. stricta, and Dillwynia parvifolia grow alongside of it; 
three are equally beautiful. 
lam preparing now for an ascent of the Bogong mountain, which is 
probably higher than Mount Caskinsko, in New South Wales; it is at 
all events the king of the mountains in Victoria, and I trust that I shall 
be able to surmount the difficulties on the long way to it; it is the real 
centre of the Australian Alps, and I hope it will furnish me with many 
desiderata of the Tasmanian alpine plants, for which I have been 
hertc M" in vain. 
| Botanie inte Melbourne, April 26, 1855. 
i disappointed in getting all my alpine collections together by 
