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is seen along a small diy watercourse, and associated with it 

 is H . moschatam . Larger plants here were Sid<i calyxhymeivia 

 and A,friple:r vesicariiim. 



Where the slopes led into more flat country Kochia 

 jiyraniidata and GUanthus Dampieri were associated, and, in 

 open formation with the bluebush, the following plants were 

 noted: — Kochia villosa, Bassia diacantha, B. paradoxa, and 

 SaJsoli Kali is only represented by its variety strohilifera, and 

 it was rare here, as it was on the Nullarbor Plain. 



Coming right down to the depression at the base of the 

 hill near Tarcoola, the succulents, Aizoori' quadrifidtim, form- 

 ing small shrubs, and T etragonia- expansa, were in association 

 with a few plants of ZygophylUmi Billardieri, var. ammo- 

 phili/m, with them. 



On the extensive clay flats the tall Acacia aneura was 

 the dominating species, and Galogyne Berardiana was also 

 very plentiful, and formed large patches in places with asso- 

 ciations of Goodeivia inmiatifidia and G. pusdli flora. Grow- 

 ing in the shelter of the former were Abutilon oxycarpum 

 and Euphorbia eremophila. In this formation was also seen 

 Brachycome ciliaris, Gephalipterum DriunmondU^ Lepidium 

 rotimdvm, var. phi ehopetalnm, Galc^tis hispidula, Sterw- 

 petalum lineare, Erodiuw cygn,oriim, and Millotia tenuifoliay 

 the first species being the most plentiful. 



^^1lere the soil was of a more sandy loam in this area 

 the vegetation was more pronounced. Several patches of this 

 nature were seen, and the predominating plants were 

 Helichrysum LawrenceUa, var. Davenportii, Graspedia 

 jdeiocephalcf, Myriocephalui< Stiiartii, Swainson-a phacoides, 

 and S. microphylla, the last two specially so. A few plants 

 of Galotis midticaulis, Templetoniu egenri, and Helipterum 

 florihunduni were not so common. In a small depression, 

 Franhenia serpyUifolkt had almost made a closed formation. 

 No eucalypts were seen at Tarcoola, but scattered species of 

 Eremophila were noted as follows: — E. Duttonii, E. glabra^ 

 E. latifolia^ E. Latrohei^ and E. Paisleyi, besides those 

 already mentioned. 



KINGOONYA PLAIN. 



Tlie dominant species of the plain was Acacia Loderi^ 

 and with it was associated Minivria leptophyll<i (pi. xlii., 

 fig. 2). Tlie shrubs noted were Rhagodia Gaudichaudianu^ 

 Kochia triptera, K . villosa, Gassia Sturtii, Ereniophila alter- 

 ni folia, E. Latrohei, and Bassia paradoxa. Smaller plants 

 vf^ere Bassia sclerolaenoides , JRutidosis helichrysoides, Ixiolaena 

 leptolepis, and Leptorrhyiichus tetrachaetus, var. peivicillatiis, 

 and were only represented by few specimens. In other forma- 

 tions were Blennodia frisecta, Menkea avsiralis, Glianthus 



