PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION D. 497 
8.—A COMPLETE CENSUS OF THE FLORA OF THE 
GRAMPIANS AND PYRENEES. 
By D. Suutivay, F.LS. 
In presenting this compilation to the Society, I beg to state that 
my sole aim and object is to encourage others to attempt similar 
productions in their respective districts. By such efforts amateur 
botanists could at once see which districts were explored and 
where to go to make their labours both pleasant and profitable. 
The present enumeration is the result of eighteen years’ research, 
and little remains to be accomplished by future explorers within 
the area included in the “census” now presented. Sir Thomas 
Mitchell, Baron von Mueller, Dalachy, and others have been over 
the district, so that in the way of actual discovery there was little 
left for me to accomplish ; still I have added, as shown, not less 
than thirty-six plants new to science. It is quite possible that 
many mosses and lichens, and perhaps orchids, remain still to be 
discovered in the deep umbrageous gorges of the Grampians. The 
district, concerning which these pages are written, extends from 
Stawell to the Hopkins and the Ararat and Hamilton railway on 
the one hand, and from the Grampians, Serra, and Victoria 
Ranges on the other, or about forty miles each way, which gives 
an area of 1600 square miles. The country lying between these 
boundaries is beautifully diversified with hill and dale, having a 
most charming effect, especially in the spring, when the grass and 
crops are green. 
The principal trees scattered over this area are Aucalyptus 
rostrata, viminalis, stuartiana, obliqua, leucoxylon, gunnit and 
gontocalyx, Acacia decurrens, melanoxylon and pycnantha. Fora 
time the wholesale destruction of these useful trees was ruthlessly 
carried on for the sake of their bark, but, I am happy to say, 
since the appointment of foresters in the district, one seldom sees 
saplings denuded of their bark. The native cherry, Exocarpus 
cupressifornis, at one time very plentiful, is totally disappearing. 
The sheoaks, too, are becoming scarce. 
With regard to the vegetation of the Pyrenees, it is neither 
varied nor remarkable. I have found no plants that could be 
said to be absolutely restricted to these ranges. The eucalypts 
already mentioned, together with Prostanthera rotundifolia, 
Correa emula, Kunzea pomifera, and a few acacias, form the 
leading features. Bursaria spinosa attains here the dimensions 
of a middle-sized tree. ‘Ihe most elevated peaks of the Pyrenees 
are Langi Ghiran, 3200, and Ben Nevis, 3000 feet above the 
level of the sea. The native plants are destined in time to 
become extinct, owing to bush fires and the vast number of sheep 
depasturing on the slopes, and, in fact, to the very summits of 
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