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fasciculata is the neighbourhood of Chum road, where it 

 associates with Eriostemon corrcsfolius, which also grows along 

 the Fernshaw road. E. myoporoides favours the heights near 

 Mount Donna Buang. Comesperma cricinum is a sparsely 

 scattered plant found at long distances apart, and usually on 

 the dry, lesser liills, as also the green variety of Correa speciosa ; 

 the red is rarely found here. C. Lawrenciana, a large shrub 

 of the second story, frequents streams of the upper mountain 

 gullies, but is most plentiful on the Graceburn, near the weir. 

 The only plant of Kennedya rubicunda found in the district 

 was a young one growing in a ploughed paddock near the town. 

 It was removed to the owner's house, and has grown to a great 

 size over a trellis. PuUencBa Gunnii is very generally dis- 

 tributed, but more freely at the mid-elevations, favouring the 

 poorer hillsides. P. scabra is mainly confined to the western 

 slope of the Myers Creek gully (facing east). P. Muelleri 

 favours south-east slopes, and is there usually dominant. 

 Daviesia latifolia grows at the tunnel cutting, and stray plants 

 are found along the west edge of the bank, but it scarcely 

 encroaches upon the area proper. D. corymbosa is found side 

 by side with D. latifolia, but individual plants are scattered 

 sparsely through the area. Both are secondary chasmophytes. 

 Gompholobium peduncnlare is found on the east slopes of the 

 north-west boundary. Facing west, on the eastern bank of 

 the Myers, is the only place that I have found Hovea longifolia. 

 H. heterophylla is fairly common on some of the lowest hills. 



In the Platylobium association outside the area, on and near 

 the railway enclosure through Ringwood, the dominant species 

 is P. obiusangiihwi, and within it P. formosum. This last- 

 named species, like the former, is a prostrate form. It is 

 plentiful on the sides of the road as far as Fernshaw, and on a 

 slope from that road to the Watts Weir, where the growth is 

 slightly more upright on a north-east aspect. After Blacks' 

 Spur is crossed, and beyond the Hermitage to Narbethong, 

 there is an extensive association of P. formosum in ])artially 

 shrubby form, growing on a north-east aspect. The plants 

 grow to over three feet in height, with perhaps an average of 

 two and a half feet. I had the })leasure of seeing this patch, 

 which extends quite a mile or more with little interrui)tion, in 

 copious bloom in November, iqii. It extends inwards from 

 the road some distance, for I walked through it a mile or so 

 from the road in a semicircular route from Narbethong to the 

 Hermitage a few years before, about the same month. Bossicea 

 cordigcra is principally found on both sides of the pipe track 

 leading from Echo Tunnel to Watts Weir, and on the road 

 below and in a patch on the Mount Riddell road between the 

 Don road and the Badger aqueduct. It flowers between October 



