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ground, and making the intruder hesitate to roughly set his 

 loot on them. At the water's edge we find Persoonia Gtmnii, 

 and one bush of Anadopetahini higlandulostim (horizontal), 

 this inhabitant of gloomy mountain gullies apparently here 

 on the open shore quite out of place. The pleasant smell of the 

 flowers of Cenarrhenes nitida is rudely dispelled by the 

 offensive smell of its broken leaves and branches. At the over- 

 flow of Dove Lake, where from its shore the humus had been 

 washed av/ay, leaving nothing but a mass of fine gravel, 

 Planiago Tasmanica and the composite Senecio pectinatus had 

 been noticed. 



We crossed the Dove River on a fallen log, and turned our 

 steps towards Mount Brown, boldly precipitous towards Dove 

 Lake. Winding our way through low bushes of eucalyptus, 

 we added to our collection Lyssanthe niontana, Epacris im- 

 pressa, var. ntscifolia, Cyathodes acerosa, Leucopogon coUintis, 

 and L. ericoides. The rounded top of the mount, almost, so to 

 speak, in possession of Microcachrys tetragona, is very poor in 

 variety of plant-life, which improves on descending to the 

 shores of Cradle Lake, where a dense forest of Arthrotaxis 

 selaginoides and A. cupressoides overtop an undergrowth of 

 Richea dracophylla, R. scoparia, and R. pandanijolia. 



The following three days were devoted to collecting in the 

 Cradle valley and its surroundings. The course of the valley 

 lies in the direction from south-west to north-east, receiving 

 in its upper part the snowy waters coming from the drifts on 

 the " plateau." A low divide separates it from a deep gorge, 

 leading to the west into the Brougham Gorge, its northern slope 

 going over into Hounslow Heath, while the beautifully widened 

 eastern part reaches as far as the Dove River, coming from the 

 south, beyond it the slightly undulating plain going over on 

 one side into the slope of Brown Mountain, on the other into 

 that of Mount Brown, the centre forming the entrance to the 

 Campbell Gorge. The upper end of the valley is prettily 

 wooded by a little forest of Fagtis Cunninghami and Arthro- 

 taxis selaginoides, in their shelter growing Richea pandanijolia 

 up to 20 feet, the crimson-flowering Archer ia eriocarpa forming 

 a dense entanglement, which is heightened in places where 

 Richea scoparia took possession of the ground. This forest 

 forms, so to speak, the nucleus of the woods extending down on 

 both sides of the valley. The southern part, which is formed 

 by declivities of the Cradle Mountain, is absolutely devoid of 

 pine trees, the only trees forming an open forest being eucalypts. 

 The northern part, at the top end of the valley, covered with 

 Fagus Gnnnii, goes over into a magnificent forest of beech and 

 pine, the latter, though not developed to considerable heights, 

 displaying at the brim of the forest forms which suggest at 



