68 THE BOTANY OF IRVINEBANK 
will be noticed, the Beefwoods (Proteace) are well represented. 
On the small open plain near the Picnic Hotel. 24 miles west 
of Irvinebank, are a few of Spondias pleiogyna (Burdekin 
plum), Santalum, Erythrophloeum Laboucheru, and among 
grasses Setaria glauca and Klionurus citreus. 
On the Bedlog gully are Careya australis, Acacia trmeura, 
Acacia aulacocarpa, and Heteropogon contortus. 
The district has rather more than the usual share of 
poisonous plants, and it is a matter for congratulation that, 
owing to the nature of the district, stock is not plentiful. 
Gastrolobium grandiflorum, so prevalent in Western 
Australia, is found here, and is very poisonous. It grows 
even on the sides of the more barren ridges. Lamprolobium 
fruticosum, which frequents the mountain gullies, is poisonous, 
though it is not so notorious. 
Erythrophleeum Laboucheri, the ironwood, is so called 
from the excessively hard nature of its wood, which blunts 
the sharpest axe. It has proved most disastrous to the 
camels, which were imported here to carry copper matte from 
Mt. Garnett. The tree, when well grown, is often over 15 
inches in diameter. 
Last comes Hibbertia Bennettii, which is named after the 
writer, who first brought it into the notice, at least of the 
scientific world. How it had escaped notice before is remark- 
able, as it is both wide-spread and notorious in the North. 
Though its poisonous properties are matters of common 
knowledge among the residents, nc one seems to have drawn 
the attention of the scientific world to it before. It is a yellow 
flower like a buttercup, and grows on a low herb. Stock eat 
it with the grass it grows amongst. It is said to be the most 
rapid and fatal of all local poisonous plants, and, though, 
from humanitarian motives, I have been loth to test it on 
any herbivorous animal, there seems, from the unanimity 
of the residents, little doubt that it is highly toxic. 
The principal climbers are Tecoma australis (said to 
poison stock, but this is doubtful) and Loranthi of several 
species, Loranthus longifolus, var. amplexifolius being very 
beautiful when in full bloom. 
The prevalent grass is Arundinella nepalensis. The 
Blue and Mitchell grasses are absent, and the grasses, as a 
