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my time was too limited to linger here any longer, though I gladly 

 would have liked to remain, and could hav.e found plenty to do to 

 occupy my time for fully another week. 



On Wednesday morning I started on my return journey, the 

 weather continuing fine. I took the walk down from the Alps 

 leisurely, as I intended to stay for the night at Harrietville, and 

 made up in collecting for what I missed during the rain on my 

 way up. After six hours' walk I reached Harrietville, and was 

 disappointed to learn that no coach was leaving for Bright on 

 Thursday, so I was obliged to return the same evening to Bright, 

 where I arrived at ii o'clock. 



Next morning I took the early train (at 5 a.m.) for Pore- 

 punkah, which is the nearest station for the Eurobin Falls and 

 the Buffalo Mountains. From Porepunkah there is a good 

 road marked by finger-post to Mr. J. Mansfield's Buffalo Falls 

 Temperance Hotel ; crossing over the Ovens bridge in the 

 township, then following the river down to the junction of the 

 Buckland River and up this river to the first bridge crossing, 

 leads to the Eurobin Falls, a distance of six miles from 

 Porepunkah, two miles beyond the Buffalo Falls Hotel, 

 where I arrived in good time for breakfast. I did not 

 feel inclined that day to climb the Buffalo Mountains, and 

 contented myself with botanizing along the banks of the Eurobin, 

 as far as the falls I saw here for the first time Baeckea 

 crenalifoiia, a pretty myrtaceous shrub, in full bloom, but I 

 was too late for other kinds which I obtained on my former 

 visit, in the month of November. Of Logania Jloribunda, Micran- 

 theuni. hexandrum, and Mirbelia oxylobioides I could only get poor 

 seed specimens. A singular variety of Acacia jyenninervis, with 

 straight and narrow leaves, as well as narrow seed-pods, I noticed 

 here, as well as on the Buckland, while the typical A. penninervis 

 from Mount St. Bernard has more the shape of the Blackwood 

 leaves. Acacia melancxylon. Another interesting plant which 

 occurs here, and also on St. Bernard, is Gaxdtitra hispida, an 

 Ericaceae, of which order only two representatives are found in 

 Victoria ; the other is Wittsteinia caccinacea — both restricted to the 

 north-eastern portion of our alpine regions ; the latter is only 

 found in Victoria, while the former extends to New South Wales 

 and Tasmania. Gaultiera hispida, on account of its white fleshy 

 seed-berries of the size of a pea, is locally known as " native 

 bread." 



The Eurobin Falls are a favourite picnic resort for residents of 

 this large district, and a fairly good road leads up to within half 

 a mile of these falls, but I wonder that the Bright Shire Council, 

 who had the guiding finger-posts erected, could not see its way 

 to spend the few pounds it may cost to clear the remaining part 

 of the fallen limber. The country is almost level up to 



