. and chasms among them. Almost at the top of these, an" 
.. at the base of the perpendicular basaltic cliffs, constituting | 
. the summit of Olympus, I found a new Fagus /* it 
The leaves somewhat resemble Fagus fusca of New Zealand. f 
484 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
. 
the evening of the 4th we encamped close to the lake, and at 
the foot of * Mount Olympus." All the west side of the 
lake is a very steep bank, densely covered by a forest of 
Fagus Cunninghami, Carpodontus lucida, Weinmannia Aus- 
tralis, Phyllocladus aspleniifolia, and a few Eucalypti inter- 
spersed, the Fagus preponderating. "The trees continue to the 
very water's edge, and overhang the lake; so thatit was no easy 
matter to find a clear space, even 8 feet square ; but at last a 
sandy beach was discovered, which offered us a landing-place. 
January 5, 1847.— Temperature of the water of Lake . 
St. Clair, at 6 A.M., indicated by a thermometer left in all 
night, was as high as 58°, My party started to ascend Mount 
Olympus about half-past seven. We carried a small tent, 
a couple of Opossum rugs, and provisions, for two days, for "m 
Mr. Jamieson, Mr. B. Brooks (his cousin), my two men and — 
myself. We had not ascended many hundred feet when we 
found ourselves opposed by a precipitous sandstone cliff; : 
down which innumerable streams of water poured in small 
cascades. It took us some time to find a place up which s 
could climb; and we were then met by two other successive — 
sandstone precipices, which we eventually surmounted. ! 
Under one of these I found a new fern, and saw Gleichema — — 
tenera, Br., abundant. Over the sandstone we came fo 
basaltic rocks, which continued to the top, all columnar — 
basalt: a great number of the columns, however, have fallen 
down. We passed through a thicket of dwarf Fagus e 
ninghami, and other alpine shrubs, and then arrived at a bue a 
heap of rocks wildly thrown together, with huge openings a 
dense, almost impenetrable thickets from 4 to 6 feet high. - 
"There were large patches of it, to the exclusion of all other - 
_ shrubs. I gathered empty seed-vessels, but no male 
-~ _ * I propose naming this most interesting addition to the Tasma 
|. Fora F. G wi, after its indefatigable discoverer.—J. D. H 
