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crimson. Lcptospermitm myrsinoides and Pultencea scabra added 

 their colour to the scene, and smaller plants, such as Stylidiitin 

 (Candollca) graminifolium and Brunonia australis, were con- 

 spicuous by their pink and blue flowers, while Correa speciosa, 

 with its long, tubular corolla, was in quantity, an occasional 

 specimen of the variety normalis being met with. 



About a mile further on the North Nar Nar Goon State 

 school is situated, and in the vicinity of the building wild-flowers 

 grow in great profusion. It gave me pleasure to spend half 

 a day with the children of this school, collecting wild-flowers 

 in the neighbourhood, and upwards of eighty species of plants 

 were gathered during the afternoon, chief of which were the 

 beautiful White Iris, Diplarrhena Morcea, with its large, showy 

 flower-heads. Patersonia longiscapa and P. glauca, with purple 

 and pale indigo flowers respectively, were plentiful, but they 

 wither rapidly after gathering. Stypandra ccespitosa, a densely- 

 tufted plant with pale yellow flowers, was met with, also 

 Utricidaria dichotoma and U. lateriflora ; the latter, with its 

 small pinkish-purple flowers, could be counted by the hundred. 

 Dianella longifolia, with its long, narrow, flax-like leaves and 

 spreading inflorescence, and Sprengelia incarnata, with its 

 pretty racemes of pinkish flowers, abounded everywhere. 

 Comesperma ericinum, a pretty shrub with dark pink flowers. 

 showed up well, while another species of this genus, C. volubile, 

 was climbing over the undergrowth, the flower having three 

 petals of a delicate blue, resembling the keel of a legume. 

 Orchids collected represented twenty-seven species, among them 

 being Thelymitra flexuosa, with its fragrantly-perfumed Mowers, 

 T. longifolia, in colours pink and blue, and in appearance very 

 like a hyacinth ; Caleana major, with rich maroon flowers, 

 resembling a wild duck in flight ; Diuris maculata, with pretty 

 flowers richly marked with dark brown spots : and I), punctata, 

 with its beautiful blue or purplish flowers. 



On the hills from here onward larger trees are met with, and 

 several sawmills are busily engaged cutting them into fruit 

 cases. One mill had an order from a local orchardist for one 

 hundred thousand cases. Banksia collina, sometimes tailed 

 Native Honeysuckle, grows very plentifully hereabouts, its long 

 black styles forming very conspicuous objects in the flowering 

 stage, and equally plentiful was the pretty shrub Grevillea 

 alpina. Three leguminous shrubs which grow freely in these 

 parts bad just passed their flowering period, and were laden 

 with fruit- pods ; they were Tndigofera australis, a handsome 

 shrub that bears clusters of pretty lilac flowers, A cacia suaveolens, 

 locally known as Wallaby-bush, and Goodia lotifolia, a tall 

 shrub with bright yellow flowers Bauer a rubioides, sometimes 

 called Native Rose, is, as usually met with, a pretty little 



