604 BOTANY OF THE INTERIOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



Other hills can be seen rising here and there at distances up to 

 30 or 40 miles away. From the base of one to the other the land 

 is so level that in a good season it looks like a green carpet 

 extending for miles, and the heads of the waving Mallee remind 

 one of a field of maize. But too often the carpet seems horribly 

 worn into great patches of red and brown, and the drought- 

 stricken land, denuded of all grass and herbage, glares through 

 the straggling foliage. 



