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new for these parts. The curious and beautiful Drosera binata, 

 with its two-pronged and hayfork-like looking leaves, is not 

 uncommon here; and whilst looking for this we came across 

 quantities of the real Sphagnum Moss {Sphagnum crislatum), 

 also a solitary plant of that rare orchid Lyperanthus burnetii, 

 found for the first time in Victoria by Mr. Wooster, at Narre- 

 warren. 



Walking along towards Cranbourne the heath ground looked 

 simply lovely, vast quantities of Pimelea octophylla and phylicoides 

 being in full bloom. Dillwynia cinerascens, Bossicea prostrata, 

 Sprengelia, Platylobium, Styphelias, Epacris, Hypoxis, Xanthosia, 

 Aotus, Comesperma volubile and ericinum, and a host of smaller 

 and equally pretty plants, as Polypompholyx tenella, Stylidium 

 calcaratum, with here and there a stray plant of Euphrasia and 

 Hovea hetcrqphylla. Leaving the Cranbourne road and striking 

 across the bush in an easterly direction, a creek is crossed, along 

 the banks of which grew some fine plants of Pultencea gunni, and 

 another somewhat similar species, both of which are strange to 

 these parts. In the creek I noticed quantities of Azolla, Ottelia, 

 a Ranunculus growing on the bottom in about three feet of water, 

 and some other and smaller water plants, amongst which the 

 singular little animal Volvox was darting about, apparently quite 

 at home in its supposed seclusion. A very wet and boggy flat, to 

 which I had been directed, yielded a number of plants in bloom 

 of Lyperanthus burnetii, the rare orchid already alluded to, and 

 these were collected and handed over, for herbarium purposes, 

 to Baron von Mueller. Turning westward, and getting more into 

 the timbered country, many birds were seen, including the Brown 

 Hawk, Kestrel, Honey-eater (several), Pied Robin, Emu Wren, 

 &c, &c. Descending the high ground a beautiful view is to 

 be obtained of the You Yangs, Mount Macedon, Dandenong 

 Mountains, &c, the scene from here being a remarkably beautiful 

 one. A curious reddish-brown looking patch lining the edge of 

 a swamp is found to be caused by a quantity of plants of 

 Leptocarpus brotunii, and near here grew, though sparingly, 

 Phylloglossum drummondi, mentioned in my preceding paper. 

 Fimbriaria, another singular and fragile plant, is also common here, 

 as also are Microtis atrata, TJielymitra carnea, bicolor, ixioides, and 

 antennifera. Those two beautiful orchids, Caladenia menziesii and 

 carnea, are here, the former in bloom ; and as the coast is reached 

 Caladenia latifolia, always pretty, is just expanding its light pink 

 flowers. Lycopodium later ale, with the tiny Selaginella preissiana 

 and Ophioglossum vulgatum, grow here in numbers. Epacris 

 obtusifolia having taken the place of its more showy and better 

 known companion, E. impressa, is at its best, being in full bloom. 

 Stretching towards the coast, quantities of small fungi growing in 

 the sand were passed, as also mosses, the well-known and common 



