BY J. H. MAIDEX, 23 



As I approached Seaview or Kookamerican (which is the native 

 name of the mountain officially recognised as Mt. Seaview, and 

 now a trigonometrical station), I found that residents of this 

 sparsely populated district, perhaps disappointed at the height of 

 Kookamerican, advanced claims in favour of three other heights 

 to be considered Oxley's Seaview. They were : — (1) A mountain 

 about three miles to the north-west of Kookamerican, and which 

 is undoubtedly higher than Seaview. I have described this 

 mountain in detail in an article to be published in the Agricul- 

 tural Gazette of N.S.W., to which I have already refeiTed. (2) 

 A coasting captain pointed out as the " Sailors' Mt. Seaview " 

 what Mr. Nivison, of Yarrowitch Station, recognised as the 2-mile 

 siding, Myrtle Scrub. The Myrtle Scrub is refen-ed to in the 

 paper just quoted, and it is considerably higher than Seaview 

 (Mr. Surveyor Graeme says 1,200 feet). The siding can be 

 observed because of its prominence, and Mr. Nivison knows this 

 part of the country well. (3) Banda Banda Mountain, Macleay 

 District, but I do not entertain it for a moment, as this opinion 

 can only be held by persons who have not studied Oxley. No. 1 

 is quite possible, but No. 2 cannot be supported owing (if for no 

 other reason) to its distance from the river called the Hastings 

 by Oxley. 



The paper in the Agricultural Gazette contains a general 

 account of the botany of the country about Mt. Seaview, and some 

 account of the plants met with in ascending it, but following is a 

 list of the plants collected on the very summit. Casual examina- 

 tion will show that they possess no interest apart from the locality 

 in which they were found. They show at once that the elevation 

 is not alpine, and not nearly alpine. The locality has not been 

 previously visited by a botanist. 



The two principal grasses are Poa ccespitosa, Forst., and Blady 

 Grass (Iinperata arundinacea, Cyr.); Xerotes longifolia, R.Br., 

 and Bracken [Pterin aquilina, Linn., var. esculenta) were also 

 veiy abundant, and these four plants covered the greatest area 

 of ground. In addition there were C yperus (probably C . platy- 

 stylis, R.Br., but the nuts are scarcely ripe), and a grass, Pauicum 



