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was seen a nice display of Brachycome divcrsifolia growing in 

 a grassy flat, and gleaming gold and white in the sunlight. It 

 was noted that in this particular part of the mountains 

 Grevillea alpina and Styphelia adscendens assumed trailing 

 forms. Journeying along the slopes of Mount Difficult, 

 Burchardia umbellata, Helichrysum apiculatuM, and H. Baxteri 

 were met with in great profusion. The beautifully ccerulean 

 blue flowers of Brunonia an straits made a splendid show. 

 Under cultivation this plant should make an uncommon and 

 very pretty border. As the day was bright and sunny, Thely- 

 mitra antennifera (one of the sun orchids) was showing to the 

 best advantage. Passing the saddle on Mount Difficult and 

 descending towards Hall's Gap, nice clumps of Euphrasia 

 collina (a graceful flower, varying in shades from white to 

 deep lavender), Stylidium graminifolium (with long spikes of 

 magenta flowers), Pater sonia longiscapa (with rich purple 

 blooms), Hibbertia densiflora (with yellow blossoms), and 

 Dianella revoluta (with bluish flowers) presented a charming 

 effect with the blending of the various colours. 



After this long and interesting trip through partly unknown 

 country, and having covered about thirty-five miles of rough, 

 trackless parts in the two days, we arrived home safely, heavily 

 laden with specimens collected and highly pleased with the 

 results of our undertaking. 



" In Quest of Orchids." — During the years 1917-18 a 

 series of twenty-three articles, each of over a column in length, 

 appeared under this title in the columns of the Federal 

 Standard, published at Chiltern, Victoria. The articles were 

 written in a very interesting and chatty manner, and described 

 in detail the expeditions of the writer in search of orchids in 

 the Cravensville district, which is some thirty miles beyond 

 Tallangatta. Some fifty-three species were collected in the 

 twelve months within a 10-mile radius. This is indeed a very 

 good record for any one locality. These articles form the 

 second comprehensive series on Victorian orchids, the first 

 having been published in vols, i.-iv. of the Victorian Naturalist 

 more than thirty years ago, from the pen of Mr. C. French, 

 sen. The present valuable contribution is from the pen of 

 Mr. Arthur B. Braine, head teacher of the State school at 

 Cravensville, and both he and his pupils have done good work 

 in making this orchid survey in the North-East. Mr. Braine 

 is the discoverer of Chiloglottis Pescottiana, and he has also 

 recorded the following orchids as new for this State : — Chilo- 

 glottis trapeziforme, Thelymitra canaliculata, Drakcea Huntiana, 

 and Prasophyllum intricatum. He has also under observation 

 a Calochilus which may prove to be a new species. — E. E. 

 Pescott. 



