496 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Gratiola pubescens ? my no. 724, is abundant as high as 
3000 and probably higher. 
Veronica, 269, is plentiful in some places. 
Ourisia integrifolia, on the margins of the streams where 
shaded. 
Euphrasia, two or three species. 
Plantago, sp. 
Species of Grevillea, Hakea, Orites, Banksia, Lomatia, 
Telopia, and Bellendena, all above 3,400 feet. . 
Pimelea sericea was the only species I saw on the top. 
The Casuarine do not appear to approach the region of 
the Conifere, and I saw none of the Cassythacee, Cheno- 
podee, or Solanee, in the mountains. 
Of Orchidacee I saw very few, this being the rainy season. 
Eriochilus autumnalis. 
Prasophyllum alpinum ? and 
an orange coloured variety? of Diuris lanceolata. 
As all the specimens, however, were of one colour it may 
be another species. | 
Graminee are abundant in the open places about Arthur's 
Lakes, and are in greater or less quantity to the highest 
parts of the range. 
In all the lakes Isoetes setacea ? is abundant, or perhaps à 
new species. 
My collections will guide you as to the other alpine plants; 
but my present observations apply exclusively to that portion 
of the Western Mountains lying immediately to the north- 
ward of Arthur's Lakes, and above their level, as I did nof 
extend my ramble, on the top of the range below 3,388 ai 
: RowAnp GUNN. 
Note on the Ciner Tree, above noticed, by J. D. HooKER — 
M.D. R.N. F.L.S. 
It has long been known to the colonists of Tasmania that 
a species of Gum tree inhabits the elevated table-lands of the 
interior of that Island, which, during certain seasons of the 
