yucca bushes (Xantlioriii()(';i-sfiiiii)l:u);i), Kciiorally kiiDwii as 

 srasstrees, foruiod a leading t\-aturo in the landscape, their (luaint 

 tlower spikes standing up 10 or 12 feet. A strange tlowering 

 shrub Avas a.lso met with near the camp and proved to be Caly- 

 thryix-tetragona. A very pretty little red tlowering ({revillea was 

 discovered n(>ar the cain[) and was pronounced to be Grevillea- 

 aspera. A charming little white-blossomed sundew (Dorsera- 

 meuzieii) was found climbiug over the shrubs. The native peach 

 or quondong tree (Fusanus-acumlnatus) was found on several 

 occasions in the scrub, but the fruit, although well developed, was 

 not nearly ripe. There were a good many plants of the orchid 

 family in tlower. and some of very peculiar formation. That most 

 prickly of all grasses, the spinifex (Triodia-irritans) was well out 

 in flower, and its featherly blooms waved in the breeze, looking 

 most soft and delicate; but the new chum who tries to gather the 

 grass heads tinds that a thousand spear points lurk below to lace- 

 rate the hand. The strawberry bnsli (Lencopogon-ovalifolium) 

 was fairly abundant. The bushes were covered in what appea^rcd 

 to be fruit, but on closer inspection proved to be leafy galls, and 

 Mr. H. H. D. Grittith has since ascertained that these gall« are 

 foi'med by a Lepidopterous larva. 



A flower is not a flower alone, 



A thousand sanctities invest it, 

 And as they form a radiant zone 



Ai'ound its simple beauty thrown 

 Their magic tints become its own, 

 \ As if their spirit did invest it. 



As one would suppose from the nature of the country in which 

 Ave were camped wattles took a prominent part in the surrounding 

 vegetation. That robust flowerer Acacia-acinacea was observed. 

 Many of the party had their attention drawn to Acacia-armata 

 from being pricked by its very sharp leaves. Acacia-jiycnantha 

 was fairly common about the camp, and what I took to be Acacia- 

 Gilli (lately named by Mr. .T. H. Maiden. F.L.S.) was also seen. 

 A<acia-longifolia and A. Anceps were also met with. In con- 

 clusion, I may say that the variety of plant life was excedingly 

 large, and, although there were many bright-flowering and elegant 

 shrubs and plants, yet the bulk of the flora reminded one that 

 the great arid tract of country (which stretches down from the 

 centre of our island continent almost to the seacoast) was not 

 f:ir distant, because the desert forms showed themselves in many 

 varieties. 



