BOTANICAL INFORMATION, 495 
circumference. It is only seen in the higher parts of the 
colony from about 1,300 feet upwards, growing on the 
margins of streams. 
Coprosma nitida, and pumila. 
Composite, very various, and I may name— 
Celmisia longifolia ? 
Craspedia macrocephala. 
Cassinia, of different species. 
Podolepis, my no. 362. 
Ozothamnus, my no. 240. 
Helichrysum acuminatum, and various species of Brachy- 
come and allied genera. 
Forstera? sp. my no. 443, formsits large dense cushions 
only on the higher parts of the mountains, and ceases alto- 
gether near the level of Lakes Arthur. With Forstera are 
associated Aretia? (my no. 364) and various other plants. The 
cushions, as they are called, from their elasticity, smooth- 
ness, and form, are usually 2 to 4 feet in diameter, nearly 
round, rising about a foot high in the centre, and sloping off 
towards the edges. They spread by the edges, and the 
centres are sometimes decayed. 
The mountains may be called the deos of the Epacridee ; 
they abound both as to species and individuals. The species, 
however, peculiar to the alpine regions are not so numerous 
as at first sight they would appear; the — are— 
Monotoca empetrifolia. 
Decaspora thymifolia; and of the genera 
ogon Cyathodes and Pentachondra, I may quote 
Nos. 299, 197, 1192, 313, 314, 519, 1194, 124, 1195, 1196. 
Epacris, 316, 1210. 
Sprengelia montana. 
Pilitis acerosa, very abundant. 
Dracophyllum, Nos. 292, and 859. 
Gentiana montana, 1842, affects the higher parts of the 
Tange; and Villarsia, my 717, is in Lakes Ard Lake St. 
lair, and also at greater altitudes in still water. — ^. 
