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rosmarinifolia and (Jandollea serrulata and the fern Cheilanthes 

 tenuifolia. 



On returning across the creek I was gratified on finding a 

 boronia with clear white, waxen flowers growing rather plenti- 

 fully along the banks. It had the habit of that variable species, 

 B. polygalifolia, which it indeed turned out to be, but, unlike the 

 form met with^in the Grampians, it was glabrous and had simple 

 leaves. On comparison with specimens in the National Herb- 

 arium, I found it most akin to a variety that had been originally 

 named B. tetrathecoides, D. C. 



Another novelty for me obtained here was Arthropodium 

 strictum with pure white flowers, and growing to an unusual 

 height in the tussocks, and a surprise also in finding in a little 

 swamp bordering a rivulet running into the creek quite a number 

 of plants of Pterostylis cuctdlata, the only representative of the 

 genus, and apparently not yet recorded from the N.E. 



My opportunity to visit Buller at last came, and on a clear 

 starlit night, which gave good promise of fine weather for my 

 ascent next day, I rode the 12 miles out to Merrijig. On arrival, 

 feeling that the effort to come might need all my powers, seeing 

 that my previous riding experience dated nearly three years back, 

 when, with Mr. Weindorfer I visited Mt. Bogong, I very soon 

 took refuge in one of the comfortable beds that Lovick's snug 

 little hotel provides. 



Daylight found me awake, and soon banishing the last dregs of 

 sleep in the icy, clear waters of the Delatite, and after a hasty 

 breakfast and some little delay in fixing the shoes of our mounts, 

 we made a start. 



Crossing the bridge and passing the milk factory, which, with the 

 hotel, school, and a church, practically constitutes the township 

 of Merrijig, we rode along the left bank of the river. With its 

 music always in our ears and enjoying from time to time the 

 prospect of its delightful stretches of broken water — certainly the 

 most charming water I have seen in the State, and, moreover, 

 slocked with English trout for perhaps a length of 25 miles — we 

 jogged along, the nature of the track only allowing us occasionally 

 to break into a trot or canter. 



Only two homesteads were passed on our way, and at the latter 

 of these we borrowed an axe, in view of possible obstructions on 

 the track, which had not been traversed since the stock had been 

 removed from the high ground the previous season. 



Very soon, indeed, and rather too frequently for my fancy, we 

 found it necessary to make use of the axe, as every now and again 

 we found our way barred by spars that had either been blown 

 down or fallen through the weight of the winter snows. 



When these were single, and not too big or lying too high, we 

 led the horses over, but frequently chopping had to be resorted to, 

 and several times we were obliged to make a detour, scrambling 



