88 Sutton, Notes on the Sandringhani Flora. [voLXxfx. 



Camberwell, Mr. Topp writes : — •• .... about 15 years ago 

 a large number of the most numerous individuals of the species 

 of the Sandringham scrub were to be found in paddocks on the 

 Burke-road, Camberwell, e.g. : — Styphelias, Correas, Hibbertias, 

 Asters, Pultenseas, Droseras, Leptospermiim scopariiim, L. myrsin- 

 oides, &c. Recent investigation, however, proves that it goes 

 much further, though exact definition of its original limits is 

 possible only from Springvale southward. Here the scrub- 

 land, containing all the species most characteristic of it, ends in 

 places quite abruptly on the lightly-timbered Red Gum flats 

 near Dandenong. In other places the transition is not so well 

 marked, the scrub gradually thinning out, some of its plants and 

 the gums common to it mingling with those of the adjacent 

 formation. Northward from Springvale the boundary is so 

 ill-defined that it is possible to mark it out only from the 

 evidence of occasional patches of scrub, by the presence here 

 and there of characteristic plants, but mostly the appearance 

 of soil alone has to be depended on. 



Near Mordialloc the scrub is separated from the creek by 

 fiats, once swamps, and originally covered in great parts by a 

 dense growth of the Swamp Paper-bark, Melaleuca ericijolia ; 

 further from the town the Red Gum flats intervene. From the 

 vicinity of the Dandenong Creek the boundary runs in a north- 

 easterly direction to within a mile or so of Dandenong, on the 

 road to that place from Mentone. It goes still a little further 

 east from here, and then turns north-west past the Springvale 

 station, crossing the line a little west of it. Judging mainly 

 from the nature of the soil, it continues in the same direction a 

 little west of Notting Hill to Scotchman's Creek. A small area 

 of the formation exists in the vicinity of Clayton station, con- 

 siderable tracts of it between Clayton-road and Oakleigh, and 

 Leptospermum and bracken in the town itself. Just opposite to 

 Oakleigh, on the high ground between the creek and Waverlcy- 

 road, is an area containing bracken, Ricinocari)us, Correa, 

 Leptospermum myrsinoides, &c. From here the line follows the 

 course of Scotchman's Creek, and alwut midway between 

 VVaverley-road and High-street turns again north-west, passing 

 well to the east of Burwood and a little cast of Canterbury 

 station. 



A fairly large area south of Riversdale and east of Boundary- 

 road, wooded with Eucalyptus viminalis, and containing now 

 only Ijracken, Aotus, Leptospermum scoparium, Bossicea pros- 

 trata, and Styphelia humifusa, heljjs to mark the line. In this 

 locality the formation may be said to come in touch with that 

 of the Ringwood district. 



From Canterbury, after going a little north, the line passes in 

 a westerly direction through Kew, and ends in the vicinity of 



