Cn.IV] WARM TEMPERATE MOIST SUMMER DISTRICTS 505 



Eucalyptus odorata, adorned with their red flowers hanging in the air. The small 

 shrubs of Burse ra spinosa are covered with their white flowers, mingled with the 

 red of different shrubby Grevilleas ; Compositae are seen blooming over the plains 

 in all colours ; and every week brings new representatives of floral beauty. 



' But by the middle of November the number of flowering plants already lessens 

 considerably, the annual grasses and other herbaceous plants begin to dry up, droop, 

 and disappear, and in January the grass land resembles a ripe thinly-sown cornfield, 

 and we find only solitary shrubs covered with a few flowers, or a few plants of Con- 

 volvulus erubescens, Lobelia gibbosa, Labil., the latter with their leafless and fleshy 

 stalks, and Mesembryanthemum australe, Soland. In some localities this period 

 appears earlier or later. 



'The seeds of the annual plants have been scattered, perennial herbage returned 

 to its dormant state, to awake to new life at the setting in of the following rainy 

 seasons ; and the plains have during the summer months a dismal, dried-up appear- 

 ance.' 



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