176 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



•common ti-tree ( Leptospermiim laevigatum), which lines our coasts 

 from St. Kilda to Cape Schank, and onward. It is a very small- 

 leaved variety. 



This place 1 found to be a very good one for plants, and 

 having collected Lasiopetahtm Behrii, Daviesia brtvifolia (a 

 beautiful sp.), Prostanthera coccinea, and a number of other 

 handsome shrubs, we started early next morning for a camp 

 ten miles further on, and it was here that I found Etiostemon 

 ca'pitatus (it being new to Victoria), Halgania lavandulacea (one 

 of the handsomest plants found during the trip), Eriostenion 

 diffonnis, E. sediflorus, Westringia rigida, Boronia coerulescens, 

 and others, all of which are well worthy of cultivation. This 

 place is about 125 miles north-west of Dimboola. 



The timber in this district is very scarce, we having had to 

 "grub up" the mallee roots for the purpose of firewood. We 

 reached the station on the evening of the third day, well pleased 

 with our trip, the country over which we had travelled being very 

 interesting, and most diversified. Timber is, as a rule, not large 

 in the north-west, although the red-gum and box grow to a good 

 size. There are about seven or eight kinds of eucalypts to be 

 found between Dimboola and Albacutya ; perhaps more, but, if 

 so, I did not see them. 



The Nardoo (Marsilea) is common in all the waterholes about 

 Albacutya, and the common " silver grass" ( Festuca bromoides) 

 (introduced) is too well known to need description here. 



The time had now arrived when I had to say good-bye to my 

 kind and hospitable friends. What time I had to spare had 

 been spent in the most pleasant manner with Mr. Scott, Mrs. 

 Scott, and the young people. I shall not readily forget my trip 

 to Albacuyta, for, although 1 did not find many plants of special 

 interest, I have seen the country, and we know now what it con- 

 tains in the way of plants — at least, so far as the season at which 

 time I was there is concerned. Zoological notes were not 

 neglected, and may, on some future occasion, be used as a 

 ^' stop-gap" when we are short of papers for our monthly 

 •meetings. 



I left Albacutya early in the morning, in company with a Mr. 

 Evans, of Bedooba Station, New South Wales, a most agree- 

 able companion, who had been visiting the district, and who was 

 one of our party to Chinaman's Flat, etc., Mr. P. Scott being the 

 other. We lunched with Mr. Binns, manager of Lake Hind- 

 marsh Station, and afterwards made a short detour for the purpose 

 of saying farewell to the good folks at the Mission Station, and 

 to get some zoological specimens which the blacks had collected 

 for me during my absence. 



My last day was spent in the neighbourhood of Dimboola. 

 We made an early start, and scoured the country around for 



