252 MUNNE, MUNNE RANGE. 



or closely allied to the European species, were 

 abundant. After riding a distance of seven miles, 

 " Cuney's Station" was passed, situated at a 

 fertile spot, called " Kitagarary Creek." 



Passing by the Munne-munne range, the 

 scenery consisting of picturesque but broken 

 country, thinly wooded, abounding in rich pas- 

 turage, the whole appeared a fine grazing land, 

 some parts being also well calculated for sheep — 

 the whole for cattle. 



After leaving this range, an extensive, beau- 

 tiful, and luxuriant plain or flat, surrounded in 

 the distance by gradually-sloping verdant ranges 

 of hills, was entered upon : this flat was car- 

 peted by thick grass and gay flowers ; and near 

 a small creek, a quantity of plants with pink 

 flowers, having at a distance some resemblance 

 to our well-known "red clover," attracted my 

 attention : it seems to be of the natural family 

 Ameranthacece, probably of the genus Nissayithes. 

 Although the ground was strewed with flowering 

 shrubs and plants, but very few appeared pecu- 

 liar to this portion of the colony. The "kan- 

 garoo grass" (^Anthisteria australis) was the most 

 lofty and luxuriant among the native grasses,* 



* The Murrumbidgee natives call grass by the general 

 name of " Narluk," but they bestow different names on dis- 

 tinct species. Those among the native blacks, who have pre- 

 tensions to an acquaintance with the Englisli language, call 

 our hail- grass. 



