
492 RECORDS OF THE S.A. MUSEUM 
(Leyss,) DC. (which grows in the swamps of the Murray), and of several species 
of Cardamine and Lepidinwm, for cress; the mucilaginous seeds of the native flax 
Linum. marginale A. Cunn, ; leaves of the cloyer-sorrel Oxalis cornioulata L.; the 
gum of Acacia decurrens Willd, var. mollis Lindl. as well as of the Golden Wattle; 
the berries of the Native Elder Sembycus gaudichaudiona DC. (recorded in South 
Australia from the Glenelg River to Beachport) ; ihe sweet flowers of several spe- 
cies of Lomondra (Xerotes) ; and the large sclerctium of Polyporus mylittae dug 
out of the ground and known as Native Bread. 
Deraices Notes on THE VEGETATION OF THE Camp SITE AREAS 
INVESTIGATED. 
Cape Burvon Srre—The coastal sqand-dunes. are probably little altered in 
spite of the laying out of Grey-town at Cape Buffon which never materialized. To- 
day there is an abundanea of hushes of Acacia longifolia (yielding seeds for 
grinding) and of Leuicopogon parviflorus (with edible white fruits) with in shel- 
tered places large-fruited Eucalyptus loucorylon and Black Tea-tree (Melaleuca 
pubescens). Spinifex hirsutus, as then, runs over the shifting sand and helps to 
bind it. On the banks overlooking the sendy bay the native Sonchus megaloce- 
phalus spreads ont its roots and may bave furnished edible leaves. Sea-rocket 
(Cakile maritima), now on the strand, Mr, J, M. Black considers an introduced 
plant. The spreading and rooting prostrate muntries (Hunzem pomitfera), not 
anly help to bind the sand but produce here unusually large edible fruits with a 
atrong apple flavour. There are various other maritime shrubs such as Olearia 
azularis and Scaevola calendulecea and the growth im general is one of deuse 
shrubby vegetation immediately behind the beach. 
Lars Fromr Sire. In spite of periodie bush-fires and recently the drying 
effects of the cutting of drains, the vegetation between the coastal dunes and the 
Woakwines is probably little changed. The sandy sites are, in places where still 
stable, covered with a thick growth of Black Tea-tree (Melaleuca pubescens) up 
which often climbed Tetragonia tnplecicoma or Muehlenbechia. adpressa and 
thare were occasional plants of Rhagodia haccate and other wndershrubs and quite 
often large plants of Kangaroo Apple (Solanum. aviculare) with edible (1) fruits. 
The low-lyihg land now drained is at present and probably was then covered 
with colonies of sedges (Clodium juncewm and Cladiwm glomeratwm), of the 
cutting grasses Gahma psittacorun: (near deeper water) and G, trifida, of rushes 
(Jencus maritimus var, australiensts), of bulvushes (Typha) and of Swamp Tea- 
tree (Leptospermum pubescens) near water. In the water grew in places T'rigio- 
chin procera with long strap-like leaves and edible roots. Tn summer when the 
swamps were partly dry a close sward was (and is) composed of Selliera radicans, 
Hoalorrhagis brownit, Aydroestyle (2 species) and other prostrate or minute 
plants. Beside permanent water, the soft ewamp Tea-tree Lepfospermum pubes- 
cens is still to be found and probably was much more extensive before the draining. 
The site inspected in this area consists of low sandhills ,about 16 feet high and 
drifting, with many shell-strewn camp sites expoeed (A), surrounded at a level 
just above that of the surrounding swampy plain by a dense belt of serub (B) 
a hundred yards or less in extent, which passes af once into the open flat ground 
(C), swampy always in winter and even now though drained showing patches of 
water (L. Frome) m summer. 
A, The yegetation on the sandhills where drift has not disturbed it consists of 
extensive bushes of Acdcta longifolia (with abundant seeds tending ta remain 
attached in the pods), Leweopagon parviflorns (Native Currant, small white 
