710 BOTANY OF THE INTERIOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 



Leaving the Nymagee road, and turning north-easterly from 

 the Restdown Mines to Mount Boppy, a distance of about 20 

 miles, we first have about 2 miles of mallee scrub made up of 

 Eucalyptus oleosa, E. dumosa, and E. viridis. It is in such places 

 as this that the Mallee Hen (Leipoa ocellata, Gould) scratches up 

 a mound of loose earth, 3 or 4 feet high and 12 to 15 feet in 

 diameter, in which she lays her eggs in the spring, leaving them 

 to be hatched by the heat of the sun. I am informed that w r hen 

 the young emerge from the shell, they at once start to scratch, 

 feet uppermost; the effect being that the dust accumulates under 

 their backs, and they are gradually raised to the surface of the 

 mound, when they are at once ready to run off. 



After passing the mallee there are — Callitris robust a, Apophyl- 

 lum anomalum, Acacia doratoxylon, A. colletioides, A. aneura, 

 Myoporum deserti, Fusanus acuminatus, Bertya Cunninghamii, 

 Planch., (Broom Bush), Bossicea sp. (locally known as Stick Bush; 

 no flowers were procurable), Capparis Mitchelli, Acacia homalo- 

 phylla, Eucalyptus popidifolia, E. iutertexta, Hakea leucoptera, 

 Acacia hakeoides, Heterodendron olecefolium (locally called Apple 

 Bush, though in most places it is known as Rosewood), Acacia 

 Burkittii, Cassia eremophila, Eremophila longifolia, Canthium 

 olei folium, Geijera parvijlora, Acacia decora, and A. excelsa. 



At about 9 or 10 miles is the " Mulga Tank," so named because 

 Acacia aneura (Mulga) grows near. This tree is not a strongly 

 represented local species, its habitat being chiefly northerly of a 

 line joining Cobar and Nyngan; still it is to be found in places 

 much south of this, as my notes will show. 



Passing on towards Mount Boppy there are — Helichrysum 

 Cunninghamii, Acacia Oswaldi, Sterctdia diversi/olia (some very 

 large trees), Acacia homalophylla, Hakea leucoptera, Fusanus 

 acuminatus, Capparis Mitchelli, Acacia hakeoides, A. decora, 

 Eremophila latifolia, Eucalypttis populifolia, E. iutertexta, E. 

 viridis, and E. Morrisii. 



About here E. viridis is noticed growing with onhy one stem a 

 .foot in diameter, and up to 40 and o0 feet high, though it 



