lo ^vTTon, Notes on Ihe Sandringham Flora. [^"^May"'' 



face," comes down, and the " Warrigal Cabbage," Tetragona 

 implexicoma, and the " Sea Berry," Rhagodia Billardieri, 

 which vie with one another in forming dense screens and en- 

 tanglements among the shrubs on the cHff above, hang down 

 and venture in the sand. Others which may be mentioned as 

 occurring here, not naming many ahens, are the " Knotted 

 Club-rush," Scirpus nodosiis ; the " Spreading Sedge," Carex 

 pumila ; the " Hairy Centrolepis, "C strigosa ; and the grasses 

 Stipa semiharhata, the " Fibrous Spear-grass," Dichelacne 

 crinita, the " Long-hair Plume-grass," Poa Labillardiere, the 

 " Blue Meadow-grass," and Stipa terdifolia, the dense, 

 tussocky " Round-leaved Spear-grass." 



Having dealt with the foreshore plants, we now arrive at 

 the consideration of the third zone — the belt of vegetation 

 densely covering the cliff slopes (where they are not too steep), 

 from base to crest, and extending inland, more or less, into the 

 scrub-land. Here we find trees of low growth, shrubs, and 

 smaller plants, and in it the grey " Coast Tea-tree," Lepto- 

 spermum IcBvigatum, is so dominant that it impresses its name 

 on the formation as a ' leptospermetum.' Very frequently it 

 grows so thickly, and without admixture of other species, as 

 to make absolutely ' closed communities ' within the forma- 

 tion, not even a Pterostylis finding it possible to exist in the 

 dense shade caused by the matted foliage. The other tree 

 forms, usually more robust and rather taller, are the " White " 

 or " Coast Banksia," B. integri folia ; the " Drooping Sheoak," 

 Casuarina qiiadrivalvis, perhaps the most graceful of the Vic- 

 torian species ; the " Cypress Ballart," Exocarpus cupressi- 

 formis, rather infrequently ; and the " Manna Gum," Eucalyptus 

 viminalis, which far outnumbers the two other eucalypts 

 occasionally noticed further inland ; E. Giinnii, var. acervula, 

 and E. amygdalina. Of lower growth, constituting a second 

 stratum are the " Boobialla," Myoporum insnlare, which, with 

 its fellow, M. viscoswn, sometimes overhangs the sand ; the 

 sprawling "Coast Acacia," .4. longifolia, var. sophom ; two 

 Styphelias, 5. Richei and 5. ausiralis ; the " Tonga-bean wood," 

 or " Sea Box," Alyxia buxi folia ; the shrubby Goodenia ovata, 

 sometimes called the " Pipeclay Bush " ; only rarely the " White 

 Correa," C. alba, and a couple of grey shrubby composites, the 

 " Twiggy Aster," Aster ramiilosiis, and the " Coast Aster," 

 A. axillaris. 



Though not taking any part in giving character to the 

 ' leptospermetum,' the " White Velvet-bush," Lasiopetalum 

 Baueri, may be mentioned as growing only in the vicinity of 

 the Red Bluff, just below the brow of the cliff, and a clump of 

 Oxylobiiim ellipticum, the " Golden Shaggy Pea," at the back 

 of the Ebden estate. In addition to the Tetragona and 



