^'■J-^'l Williamson, Census of Victorian Plants. 19 



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List No. 4. 



No Victorian specimens other than those recorded from Genoa River, 

 which runs part of its course through New South Wales. 



Pittosporum revolutum, Aiton. 

 rhebaUum (Eriostemon) Ralstoni, 



Benth. 

 Lasiopetalum parviflorum, Rudge. 

 Claoxylon australe, BaiU. 

 Homalanthus Leschenaultianus, F. 



V. M. 



Trema (cannabina) aspera, G. 

 Forster. 



Ficus scabra, G. Forster. 



Halorrhagis monosperma, F. v. M. 



Pteris longifolia, L. (rep. Snowy- 

 River). 



In addition to these lists I have compiled one containing 

 250 species which have been collected very rarely in Victoria 

 — in most cases in one locality only. It indicates localities, 

 and in many cases gives collectors' names and number of 

 specimens in the National Herbarium. This it may be con- 

 sidered advantageous to publish at a later date. 



The Loch Valley. — ^The extension of the Neerim railway 

 to Noojee, a distance of about thirty miles from Warragul, 

 which was opened on the 30th ult., opens up another inter- 

 esting district to tourists and nature-lovers. Loch Valley 

 must not be confounded with Loch (township) on the Bass 

 River, between Nyora and Korumburra, many miles south of 

 Warragul. From Noojee it will be possible, in a walk of about 

 eighteen miles — the greater part through interesting forest 

 scenery — to reach that well-known hostelry, M'Veigh's, on the 

 Yarra, about twenty miles above Warburton, and virtually 

 the start of the Baw Baw track. The Noojee station is 

 situated almost on the bank of the Latrobe River, a little below 

 the confluence of the Loch, and about a mile above the junction 

 of the Toorongo. All of these streams abound in picturesque 

 scenes, and their gurgling waters are pleasant company as one 

 wanders in their neighbourhood. The Neerim district was 

 once celebrated for its huge trees, but these have disappeared 

 and made way for smiling pastures. The tourist who wants 

 to see big timber must make his way farther north up the 

 Loch Valley to Mount Horsfall and Whitelaw's track, on the 

 divide between the Yarra and Latrobe ; here he can see giants 

 upwards of 250 feet to the first branch and of great girth. 

 Near Nayook, a station about eight miles before reaching the 

 terminus, is situated the celebrated Nayook Glen — a magnificent 

 assemblage of ferns and beeches — which has been made 

 accessible to tourists by tracks and a look-out. This is situated 

 on a tributary of the Tarago, another stream which abounds 

 in beauty spots. One of the features of the new railway are 

 the immense trestle bridges spanning some small creeks on 

 their way to the Latrobe. On one of these the rails are 95 feet 

 above the creek below, while the bridge itself is 600 feet long. 



