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White eared Honey-eaters adjusted their griexances, for the 

 most part, amid the timl)er, as did the Red and Bnish Wattle- 

 bird, the latter being unusually \ociferous. W'c ascended by 

 easy stages from this \alley to the crest of the sj^ur that led 

 to the Rowsley- l)eremiioke road. Here, among immerous 

 flowering plants, we noted Billaniicra cyinosa, I'li/foura humilis, 

 Persoonia chanuepeiice. and Tetratheca ericifolia. 



Prior to quitting the range for the plain, we descended into a 

 triangular-shaped depression with extremely steep slopes. The 

 small area of comparatively level ground these slopes encom- 

 passed was overgrown with Pultcncea daphnoidcs. Some of the 

 plants were over eight feet in height, and were in profuse bloom. 

 Many of them were invested with the twining Comcspcrma 

 volubilc, which had in many instances bound numbers of i)lants 

 together in a bewildering floral interlacement. A stiff climb 

 and an equally steep descent brought our ramble on the range 

 to a close. 



We had not left the wooded slopes far behind us when 

 BoasicBci microphylla, a new record for the south of Victoria, 

 was noted on the plain. Evidence was not lacking that it was 

 at one time associated with the Grass-tree, Xanthorrhcea aiis- 

 tralis, and had, in the struggle for existence, by reason of its 

 spines, survived the attentions of depasturing stock, which, 

 undoubtedly, had proved fatal to its more sturdy associate. 

 The occurrence of Bossicea microphylla, associated with \\\v. 

 remains of the Grass-tree, on the plain and at a })art of the range 

 characterized by its height and steeji slojies, may be of little 

 import. To what cause or combination of causes it owed its 

 presence we are unal)le to aihrm. Without any research on the 

 subject one might hazard the ojjinion that, as the eastern limit 

 of the range — or, more strictly speaking, the Ballarat plateau 

 — is terminated by a normal or gravity fault, we have in this 

 small leguniinous i)lant the sole sur\'i\-or of th(^ \-aried \-egeta- 

 tion that undoubtedly graced tlie down-tlirow side of the 

 Rowsley fault. 



In our journey to the Parwan railway station we noted 

 Casiiarina Liichmannii, which had not been pri'\-iouslv 

 recorded nearer than the South Australian border. 



Accomjjanied by Dr. H. (ireen, of the Melbourne University, 

 we visited the range on the 31st August last, and spent the 

 greater part of two days thereon. The least common flowering 

 plants noted on this trip were Dillwynia cricijolia. \-ar. 

 norinalis, Grevillea lanigera, and Olcaria arRopJiyllits. Boronia 

 anemonijolia occurred abundantly in jilaces, associated witli 

 Prosldiil/it'ra rolinuiilolia, while Lt'iicopo^on jiiuipcrimis. pre- 

 viously recorded only from the north-east, was also met with. 

 Of the eucalypts, li. dives, i]. iupilcUalu, and /•.'. viniiiutUs, \-ar. 



