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persed in small companies in different directions, returning at 

 sundown for a well-earned tea. The necessary washing-up being 

 concluded, the various collectors brought out their specimens 

 to compare notes, or examine with the microscope, or if butter- 

 flies to set, or birds to skin, or plants to press, either of which was 

 easily accomplished by the excellent light from gas generated 

 in the marquee. Then an early retirement was made, in view of 

 more work on the morrow. 



Next morning (Sunday) was equally fine, and after breakfast four 

 members started off for Mt. Juliet, two for Fernshaw, while others 

 remained at camp, or explored the nearer neighbourhood. The 

 Mt. Juliet party were out all day, and returned home thoroughly 

 satisfied with their hard work. Crossing the Watts at the weir a 

 track up a spur was followed to the Fernshaw road. On the way 

 fine specimens of the orchid Galochilus robertsoni, with its 

 singular fringed labellum, were obtained. On the roadside Astro- 

 tricha ledifolia grew in abundance. Further on fine patches of the 

 Ti- trees Leptospermum scoparium and L, lanigerum were in full 

 bloom, but yielded little to the entomologists. A few specimens 

 of the mountain butterfly, Epinephile abeona, were seen flying 

 about the blackberry bushes, now very abundant on the roadside, 

 and captured, but the beautiful species Papilio macleayanus was 

 not to be caught. We were now facing the steep front of Mt. 

 Juliet, but little did we think that it would take almost four hours 

 before we reached its summit, some 3,000 feet above us, and less 

 than three miles away. The track was not so well defined as 

 that on Mt. Monda, and seemed to lead up through a greater 

 variety of vegetation ; but perhaps it was in watching to see that 

 we did not go wrong that so many plants were noticed. 



Passing the former site of the forester's house, the purple Fox- 

 glove was noticed to have made itself quite at home, and might 

 fairly be added to the list of introduced plants. The little violet, 

 Viola hederacea, the little pink orchid Galadenia carnea, and 

 Tetratheca ciliata, with its flowers varying from delicate pink to 

 deep mauve, bordered our path for two-thirds of the way up. The 

 pure white flowers of Stellaria flaccida appeared everywhere in 

 the scrub, while here and there the bushes and ferns were bound 

 together with the twining stems of Comesperma volubile, bearing 

 its delicate blue flowers. Pimelea axiflora, and the Native 

 Laburnum, Goodia lotifolia, were fairly plentiful. Panax, Sam- 

 bucus, Prosicmthera melissifolia, Eriostemon correifolius, and the 

 Kangaroo Apple, Solanum aviculare, were noticed ; also Persoonia 

 arborea and Zieria smithii, but the former was not in flower. 

 As our path was very steep, and we could not see the top of Mt. 

 Juliet, we were glad of the excuse every now and again to turn 

 round and compare the height we had attained with that of Mt. 

 Monda, which was visible through the heavy timber of the 



