492 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
18 Feb. Them. in air, } to 7 A.M. 519. in the small rivulet, 
539.— Started to see the country lying between my tent and 
the Great Lake. Kept well to the south in our course, so 
as to sight the Western Arthur's Lake which is very large 
and quite equal to the Eastern one. From the south side of 
the Western Lake, the Lake River takes its rise and after 
flowing through a gorge in the mountains runs past Formosa, 
and joins the South Lake at Longford. The land between 
the two Lakes Arthur is low, being a narrow isthmus through 
which a small communication is kept up at all times. The 
country between Arthur’s Lakes and the great lake is barren, 
rugged and high. I found Pilitis acerosa and Dracophyllum, 
292 and 859 everywhere, also various other Epacridee. Phe- 
balium montanum, Pultenea, n. 319, on the highest ground, 
Dracophyllum, no. 292, seems to prefer the highest and most 
exposed places forming small round bushes so dense, that a 
bird could not penetrate into many of them. It is called 
* Honey Plant” by the people there who say that the 
flowers contain a large quantity of honey. In three and a 
half hours from starting, I reached-a rising ground close over 
the Great Lake, which is certainly an immense and beautiful 
sheet of water; but the scenery in its vicinity was tame and 
did not possess one half the beauty of that on Lake St. 
Clair, which I visited two years before. The Great Lake has 
its flocks and herds in the summer time, but is abandoned 
in winter; its altitude above the sea is 3822 feet, and the 
lake itself is about sixteen miles long and five miles broad, 
almost divided into two, near the middle, by two projecting 
points of land which approach one another sufficiently close 
to admit of people fording across in the summer season. ` 
. We took a more direct course, however, about due east, 
and reached our tent pretty tired. In one of the vallies I 
saw the Bedfordia linearis, Ozothamnus, n. 240, and a new 
plant in Umbellifere, no. 1253. ; 
19th Feb. halfpast six a.m. Therm. in air 49°; in 
rivulet 49°. Morning clear and sunny. Walked eight or ten 
