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Port PhilJip and Western Port Bays, Phillip Island, the 

 Nepean Peninsula, and the Bellarine Peninsula as far as 

 Barwon Heads, whilst across Port Phillip the You Yangs stand 

 as striking as on the day when Flinders first saw them from 

 the vantage-point of this peak, and resolved to make their 

 ascent. On the western slope is a memorial cairn marking 

 the visit of Flinders. Arthur's Seat and ridges consist of a 

 rather friable granite, seldom leaving residual boulders. The 

 \'egetation is neither very prolific nor varied, the two 

 Casuarinas, C. stricta and ('. sitberosa, with the eucalypts E. 

 viminalis, E. amygdalina, E. Stuartiana, E. ohliqiia, and, less 

 frequently, /:. coriacea, and the Native Cherry, Exocarpos 

 ciipressifonnis, as the principal trees. After lunch a quiet 

 afternoon was spent on the beach and in the examination of 

 the coastal strip of scrub, the chief features of which are the 

 dense growth of the Sand-stay, Leptosperiniim Icevigattim, L. 

 scoparium being occasionally met with, and the fine growth and 

 abundance of the Coast Honeysuckle, Banksia integnfolia. 

 which, being in full flower, was an attraction to scores of 

 Wattle-birds, Anthochcera caruncidata, whose raucous notes 

 could be heard from sunrise to dark. Other characteristic 

 coast plants were Alyxia buxifolia, the Sea Box, Leitcopogon 

 Richei, the Coast Beard-Heath, Goodenia ovata. the Hop 

 Goodenia, Myoporuni insnlare, the Coast Boobialla. Correa 

 tilba, W'hite Correa, was in fine bloom, as also the pretty 

 Mimuliis repens, Large Monkey-flower. The succulent Mesembrv- 

 anthemums, or Pig-face, M. australis and M. triangulare, grew 

 freely, as also did the Bower Spinach, Tetragona intpiexicoma ; 

 the Climbing Lignum, Muehlenbeckia adpressa, and the Coast 

 Acacia, A. longifolia, var. sophora, were frequently observed. 

 Of the mistletoes, both Loranthiis celastroides and L. pendiilus 

 had obtained footing on their several hosts. Specimens of 

 the Lofty Pine, Finns excelsa, the Common Poplar, Popiiius 

 alba, and Pitlosponnii iindulalitnt were noted amid the 

 scrub, probably the result of wind-borne or bird-borne 

 seeds. On Monday morning we started off southwards for 

 some distance through scrub in which the Cherry Ball art, 

 Exucarpos ciipressifonms, and the Acacias, A. verticillata, A. 

 vtollissima, and A. longifolia, were frequent. The Swamp Paper- 

 bark, Melaleuca ericifolia, and the small-flowered M. parvi- 

 ftora, gn^w closely together in congenial soil, while shapely 

 specimens of the Drooping Sheoke, Casiiarina stricta, showed 

 full inflorescence. The party, while ascending a steep ridge 

 through heathy undergrowth, became divided, and only two 

 reached the proposed destination. Waterfall Gully ; the others, 

 still ascending, reached a position immediately over a pre- 

 cipitous v;dley. The striking feature of this walk was the 



