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and one which Baron von Mueller has marked as rare — Rh'vpo- 

 gonum elseyanum. Two dangerous ones are common, one 

 with large bright green leaves and succulent sheathing stalks, 

 which is locally known as the " Congey Boy" — this is eaten 

 greedily by the Native Turkeys, but has the effect of making 

 a man's tongue swell to an enormous extent ; the other is 

 the Stinging Tree, Urtica gigas — the sting of this is extremely 

 painful and seems to prove fatal to horses driving them rapidly 

 frantic. 



Close by the base of Mount Cooroora, a beautiful specimen of 

 Macrozxmia denisoni in fruit was growing and on Mount Cooran, 

 the rock on the western side was completely overgrown with 

 Staghorn and Bird-nest Ferns and with an orchid, Dendrobium 

 (sp.), with beautiful clusters of delicate white flowers, amongst 

 which trailed Kennedya rubicunda, its bright red blossoms con- 

 trasting strongly with the pure white of the orchids. 



My last day I spent at the Glass Mountains — curious cone- 

 like basaltic structures rising abruptly from almost flat country. 

 The day was oppressively hot, making it no small exertion to 

 even turn over a log and as the sun went down a heavy storm 

 came up and from the train I caught my last glimpses of this 

 delightful district lit up by almost incessant flashes of brilliant 

 lightning. 



THE DISCOVERY OF SUPPOSED HUMAN FOOT- 

 PRINTS ON ^EOLIAN ROCK AT WARRNAMBOOL. 



By C. G. W. Officer, B.Sc. 



(Bead before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, lith 

 September, 1891.^) 



In last December (1890) some men engaged in quarrying at Warr- 

 nambool, on lifting a slab of stone, discovered on the rock beneath 

 certain curious impressions, which at once arrested attention 

 because of their similarity to human footprints. Mr. Archibald, 

 the energetic Curator of the Museum at Warrnambool, on hearing 

 of the discovery, at once proceeded to secure the slab bearing 

 the impressions for the Museum, where it now lies. 



While on a recent visit to Warrnambool Mr. Archibald very 

 kindly gave me every facility for examining the marks, and I was 

 able to photograph them with a fair amount of success. 



Before proceeding with the description of the impressions it 

 will be well to say a few words about the formation in which they 

 were found. Among the prominent geological features of the 

 southern coast of Australia the sand dunes are not the least 

 interesting ; but it is not my present purpose to enter into a 

 detailed account of them. The late Rev. Julian Wood divided 

 the dunes into three classes — (1) ridges; (2) conical hills: (3) 



