20 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Hill in December, and continued along past the present Mildura 

 as far as the junction of the Darling (near the present Wentworth). 

 He now turned eastwards, and making a short detour to the 

 granite area of Mount Hope, midway between the Loddon and 

 Echuca, continued on his easterly course, and reached Albury in 

 the middle of January, 1854. From there he worked up the Mitta 

 Mitta valley, turning aside to visit the Gibbo Range, which he 

 crossed at an elevation of about 5,000 ft., thence back to the 

 Mitta and on to Omeo. From there he attempted to reach 

 Bogong, but was driven back by bush fires, so turned eastwards 

 to the Cobberas Mountains, part of the main divide, near the 

 New South Wales boundary. Here he added Phehalium (now 

 Eriostemon) phylicoides, and Aslerolasia (now also Eriostemon) 

 trymalioides to the Victorian flora. Thence he travelled south- 

 east to the Snowy River, probably into New South Wales 

 territory, and found Brachychiton populneum, or Sterculia 

 heterophylla, of Cunningham, " a beautiful tree from the tropics, 

 growing out of bare granite rocks washed by melting snow." 

 Turning towards the Tambo, he followed that river to the south 

 for some distance, then turning east again crossed the Snowy 

 River, and about the middle of March reached Cabbage-tree 

 Creek, the southern limit of palms in Australia, and collected 

 specimens of the only Victorian palm, Corypha (now Livistona) 

 australis. Thence he collected along the Buchan River, and 

 made his way back to Melbourne by the main Gippsland track, 

 reaching town about the middle of April, 1854, after a journey 

 which he estimated at 2,500 miles. 



During this trip he added 391 species of dicotyledons and 105 

 species of monocotyledons to the Victorian list, at least one- 

 quarter of which were previously unknown. 



His next report is a special despatch, dated Omeo, i6th 

 December, 1854, in which he records his successful ascent of 

 some of the highest peaks of the Alps, forming part of his third 

 journey. This will be found in " Votes and Proceedings of the 

 Legislative Council of Victoria, 1854-5," vol. ii., part i (A 45), 

 page 233, but I will refer to it in its proper place as part of the 

 third journey. 



His third journey is recorded in the third annual report, 

 " Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council, Victoria, 

 1855-6," vol. i., part i (A 10), page 415. 



He left Melbourne on the ist of November, 1854, travelling 

 by way of the Dandenong Ranges and the fern gullies to the 

 head of the Latrobe River. Down that river to the Avon, then 

 up the Avon to Mount Wellington, 5,363 ft. (named by M'Millan), 

 which he reached on the 14th November, only a fortnight after 

 starting, which seems very good travelling for those times. 

 Spending about a week there, he left the lower Avon on the 22nd 



