488 |. BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
was abundant in fruit, Cryptandra, 716,in flower. Mono- 
toca empetrifolia ? (my 715) in lower, and many other plants 
common in our mountains. In walking towards Arthur's 
Lake, as indeed I had passed yesterday, Callistemon viridi- 
florum was common but seemed stunted. Hymenanthera 
angustifolia, or a plant very similar to it, covered some rocks 
close to my bivouack, but I could discover no flowers. If 
it is the Hymenanthera, it certainly assumed a habit very 
different to its usual one. In walking onwards I recognized 
some of my friends of the low country such as Mniarum 
pedunculatum, Wahlenbergia gracilis, Eriochilus autumnalis, 
Linum angustifolium, Pelargonium sp., Stylidium, and some 
few others, which certainly looked out of their place or like 
Exotics amongst their alpine brethren. Veronica, 269, was 
common.  Ozylobium ellipticum was a very small shrub with 
small leaves, a foot high, very different to its aspect on the 
sides of the mountains, where it is a large shrub 5 to 6 feet 
high. In rocky places Acacia, n. 207, was common, as 
Bossiea ensata? 1059, Lomatia tinctoria covered large 
patches of ground as a social plant in fall flower, the blos- 
soms something like the Hawthorn and the Banksia 8 to 10 
feet high, was in flower. : 
Running into Eastern Arthur's Lake is a fine stream ealled 
*'Tumble-down Creek,” from the water undermining 1ts 
banks. Its course could be traced for miles, whilst walking 
on the plains which skirted its margins, by the borders of 
pale green coloured Oritina acicularis of Brown, (285); and 
Orites revoluta, (which have when growing the same colour as 
the dried specimens) and which are in the greatest profusion 
along its bank, growing to the height of 5 or 6 feet. These 
with Leptospermum rupestre, Backia micrantha, Pilitis 
acerosa, Dracophyllum (292 and 859) of two species, SPrer- - 
gelia incarnata or montana ? Tasmania aromatica, Baccharis 
lepidophylla ? (123), Bellendena montana, Pimelea sericea, and 
various other plants, formed a dense and in many places 
almost impenetrable thicket. cup 
Close to the northern side of Arthur’s Lake I found a —' 
