ii8 Exhihition of Wild-flowers. [vof xxx- 



Helichrysum scorpioides, Pultencea humilis, Micranthera hexandra, 

 Caladenia Patersoni ; Diapur, Halgania cyanea, Westringia 

 rigida, Podolepis acuminata ; Trafalgar ; Lindenow ; Upper 

 Moondara ; Rokeby ; Moe. 



EXCURSION TO POINT COOK. 



It was not expected that Point Cook, situated on Port Phillip, 

 about midway between Williamstown and the mouth of the 

 Werribee, would attract a large gathering, as the locality is 

 flat and not particularly interesting ; but, as all directions 

 round the metropolis should be visited from time to time, it 

 was put down for Saturday, 13th August, but only the 

 leader and another member left town by the mid-day 

 train for Laverton (Geelong line), from whence the Point is 

 distant some six miles. Setting out in a southerly direction 

 over the plain, the most noticeable flowers were Velleya 

 paradoxa, Stackhousia linarifolia, and Leptorrhynchus squamatus. 

 Larks (whether English or Horsfield's Bush-Lark could not be 

 decided) were singing gaily everywhere. Passing through a 

 portion of the Werribee Closer Settlement Irrigation Area, we 

 skirted a swamp, where were many dead spikes of Plagianthus 

 spicatits, the plants themselves just starting into growth for 

 the new season. Presently, on a slope, fine plants of Kennedy a 

 prostrata in full bloom were unexpectedly found. Making for 

 a grove of trees in a depression, these were found to be Red 

 Gums, Eucalyptus rostrata. A little further on a wide stretch of 

 bracken, containing no other growth, was passed through, 

 which was found to extend right down to high-water mark. 

 Lunch was taken on the seashore, and large heaps of shells 

 turned over, in which. Nasca fasciata (the Club's badge) and 

 other interesting species occurred. Passing round the home- 

 stead on the Point, our way was now northerly towards the 

 creek known as the Skeleton Waterholes, which proved a 

 barrier to our progress, being fringed with swampy country 

 carrying a strong growth of the salt-bush, Salicornia arhuscida. 

 A fine Bursaria spinosa, with a trunk at least 18 inches through, 

 was seen, also signs of aboriginal kitchen middens ; these, 

 however, are more numerous towards Altona. Quantities of 

 the singular Horned Poppy, Glaucium fiavum, Crantz, an 

 introduced plant with brilliant yellow flowers, grow along the 

 shore. On the shore of some brackish-water laeoons thousands 

 of small univalve shells, Coxiella confusa. E. A. Smith, were 

 noticed. The weather was not of the best, but still enjoyable, 

 and the locality is one which would seem to be worth visiting 

 at some other season. — C. S. Sutton. 



