8o SuTTOX, Notes on the Sandringham Flora. [voi'^'xx?x. 



P. curta. Slender Bush-pea, PultencBa tenmjolia, and Myoporum 

 htimile. 



In the railway reserve at Brighton Beach, north of the Were- 

 street bridge, the Curved Rice-flower, Pimelea ciirviflora. once 

 grew, and perhaps still exists. In the Hampton station yard could 

 be found at one time the Velleya and the Blue Eryngo, Eryngi-um 

 rostratum ; in a paddock a little to the north the Narrow-leaved 

 Bitter-pea, Daviesia corynibosa, and just outside the railway 

 fence the Purple Diuris, Diuris punctata. The latter he also found 

 between Mentone and Cheltenham. Close to the reserve at the 

 latter place the Bulbous Fringe-lily, Thysanotus tuberosiis, 

 used to be found, and near by the Large Podolepis. 

 P. acuminata, Spoon-leaved Sundew, Di'osera spathiilaia, and the 

 two rather uncommon orchids — the Crow Orchid, Orthoceras 

 strictnm, and Long-leaved Duck Orchid, Cryptostylis longifolia. 

 The reserve and its vicinity was closety searched on two 

 occasions since reading Mr. Hart's notes, without detecting any 

 trace of these. The two spike-rushes (Heleocharis) were found 

 at Sandringham, and H. sphacelata also at Cheltenham and 

 Moorabbin. 



The White Sunray. Heliptcrum corymbiflornm. Long-leaved 

 Flax-lily, Diandla longifolia. Delicate Glycine, Glycine clandes- 

 tina. Stout Hood-orchid, Thelymitra epipactoides — nearly east of 

 the golf links, beyond the Bluff-road — Blue Aster, A ster hnegelii. 

 Wandering Speedwell, Veronica peregrina, were all at one time 

 noted about Sandringham, Lobelia microsfeyma at Black Rock, 

 and the Snowbush Aster, Aster stellulatiis, at East Brighton 

 and at Cheltenham. Quoting Mr. Hart almost literatim: — 

 "• About and south of the swamp on the ]\Ioorabbin-road, just 

 south of South-road and a couple of miles or more east of 

 .Moorabbin station, I got the Slender Flowering-rush, Xyris 

 gracilis, the White Velvet bush, Lasiopetalum Baneri, and 

 Mvoporiim hiiinile : the Bulrush, Typha angnsttfolia, right on the 

 .Moorabbin-road, the Common Reed, Arundo phragmites, near by, 

 and in the vicinity, the Side-flowered Bladderwort, Utricularia 

 lateriflora. Forked Sundew, Drosera binata, and Lesser Red 

 Helmet, Corysanthes itnguiculata. A little south-west of the 

 junction of Centre and IMoorabbin roads used to be a good spot 

 for the Dotted Hood-orchid, Thelymitra ixioides. Further east, 

 along Centre-road, I have found the Bearded Helmet-C)rchid, 

 Pterostylis barbata. Cockatoo Orchid. Calcya major — the only 

 example ever noticed in the district — and Slender Caladenia. 

 Caladenia congesta. This latter was jironounced by the Baron 

 a small variety, and aj^parently new. I never found it again. 

 The Coral Fern, Gleichenia circinata, once grew in a drain just 

 off Centre-road, alsq south from there and east of what we 

 knew as the old Dandenong track — a crooked road running 



