^^[■^ 1 Sutton, Notes on (he Sandringham Flora. 8i 



south-east. The same fern occurred also some distance south 

 of Balcombe's-road. 



" The old Dandenong track beyond Dingley once yielded 

 very fine orchids, especially a white variety of the Spider 

 Orchid, Caladenia Pater soni." Mr. Hart also records the 

 Prickly Couch-grass, Zoysia pungens, from Brighton Beach, 

 Mud Dock, Riimex bidens, from Moorabbin, and Swamp Club- 

 rush, Scirpus imindatiis. Regarding the River Red Gum, 

 Eucalyptus rostrata, as to the occurrence of which my own 

 recent observations have left no doubt, Mr. Hart says they 

 are to be found " in Caulfield — for instance, near the corner of 

 Bambra and Glen Eira roads " ; and further — " I have always 

 regarded the gums at the Brighton Cemetery as these. My 

 uncle, Mr. Joseph Hart, pointed out to me certain posts which 

 he supplied in 1857 still standing (last year) in a fence in Glen 

 Eira-road, just east of the Caulfield Town Hall." In another 

 place he says : — " Red Gums occurred along the valley which 

 runs north of Middle Brighton station. It occurs to me that 

 perhaps they cease about the same place, as the drainage 

 system departs from regular valleys and tends to many closed 

 hollows, as at Sandringham." In a later note Mr. Hart says : 



Red (iums occur north from Hampton station and on or near 

 the Point Nepean-road beyond Moorabbin station." It was 

 the opinion of Mr. Joseph Hart that there were no Red Gums 

 on the track from Balcombe's block, near the Brighton 

 Cemetery, to Balcombe's block bej^ond Schnapper Point, but 

 this old road or track used to keep the ridge further east, and 

 this explains why they were not noticed. Apart from the Red 

 (iums which e.xist plentifully on the flats about Dandenong 

 Creek and the Yarra, and extend up the valleys of Gardiner's 

 Creek and its branches, many of which must once have been 

 closely associated with the plants on the fringe of the Sand- 

 ringham formation, others have been noted by myself quite 

 close to Mordialloc, on a flat surrounded by an association of 

 /Eucalyptus viuiinalis, bracken, and Ricinocarpus pinifolius. 

 .\gain, they may be seen just off the Chesterville road and on 

 the Point Xepean-road to the east of Highett : south from 

 Murrumbeena, to the east of Ashburton, and on the Camber- 

 well golf links. Though the species may thus be said to be 

 /;; the formation, it is not, strictly speaking, of it. 



Mr. Charles French, jun., writes to me that, on looking up 

 his field-notes, he finds the Twin-leaved Bird Orchid, Cliilo- 

 ^lottis diphylla, was fairly common at Oakleigh ; that between 

 the same place and Cheltenham he has collected the Red Hood- 

 orchid, Thclymitra Macmillani, the Slender Caladenia. C. 

 nnoesta, the Dixon Leek-orchid. Prasnphyllutn Dixnni, and the 

 r.tout Leek-orchid, P. Frenchii ; near Cheltenham, the Wedge- 



