1206 NOTES ON NATIVE FLORA OF NEW SOUTH WALES, III., 



The Flannel Flower, Ac.tiaotns ^^/trt?i<7u', Labill., is to be found 

 ■on the hillside al)out one mile south-westerly from Wellington, 

 this being one of the isolated spots in the western district where 

 this well known beautiful coastal flower is found. 



Neither the Pine nor the Currajong was noticed in any (juantity 

 till Mumbil was reached, where the altitude is about 1500 feet, 

 after which both species were very common. 



From Wellington to Dubbo is about 30 miles, and as most of 

 the country has been cleared near the railway line, the list of 

 plants noticed is not an extensive one, but is sufficient to show 

 that, with the exception of an occasional plant, the cold country 

 flora has been left behind. 



The district around Wellington is very productive and presents 

 a very different appearance from that which met the gaze of the 

 explorer Oxley on the 19th August, 1817, when this spot was 

 discovered. On approaching this locality after a tedious journey 

 across the Upper Bogan from the Lachlan, near Euabalong, 

 Oxley speaks of the sound of the mogo (stone tomahawk), 

 denoting the presence of the natives, and on entering the valley 

 of the Bell River, near its junction with the Macquarie, he 

 writes : — " Imagination cannot fancy anything more beautifully 

 picturesque than the scene which burst upon us. The blue gum 

 trees* were exceedingly fine, whilst that species of Eucalyptusf 

 which is vulgarly called the Apple Tree, and which we had not 

 seen since we quitted the eastern coast, again made its appearance 

 on the flats, and of large size."; 



But now the sound of the mogo is heard no more, and in its 

 place there is the bleating of sheep, as well as the humming of 

 the stripper, and the noise of the harvester on one of our richest 

 wheatfields. 



The Eucalypts growing between Wellington and Dubbo are : — 

 E. rostrata^ E. hcmiphloia, var. alhens^ E. meUiodora, E. conica, 

 Deane & Maiden (E. Baueriana^ var. conica, Maiden; Woolly butt 



* Evidently Eucalyptus rostrata, 

 t Angophora intermedia. 

 Z. Oxley's Expeditions. 



