"The leavc-s have listened to all the 

 hirds so long; 

 gytfy blossom has ridden out of 



Only lo« with the young love the 



olden haiCS We healed: 

 1 ct the tired eyes go to the green 



f ,eld! " , i ... 



N cur twin towers (radio and tele- 

 vision) on a rise, there was a road- 

 ie botanizing stop, where most of 

 ll K plants were familiar old friends, 

 but good to see with wheat field:, 

 stretching afar, Among Ihem were the 

 orchids Glo.naclki major , Achnuhus 



ntuformis. Caiadenta caniea and c. 

 Jtjoimh. and two sundews. l),osc,,> 

 uSiftakcrl and D. plunchonii, the 

 commonest plant (not in flower) 



hL .,nc Mailec Broombusii {Melaleuca 

 Mtfnata) dhe official common name 

 \g Rroom Honey-myrtle, but Broom- 

 hash is Ihe only name heard among 

 the locals of the north-west). 



Further on a shcokc forest was 

 passed, We were met in Kamva, at 

 2 p.m., by Alec Hicks, who lives in 

 the town and has al his home B large 

 herbarium of plants collected in the 

 district over many years, during 

 which he has made new records of 

 species and has sent numerous spea 

 mens to the National Herbarium in 

 Melbourne. We were lorlunate in- 

 deed 10 have him as our boiamcal 

 guide throughout our stay in the Little 

 Desert Alec drove ahead out on the 

 Kdenhopc ro;id to the junction of a 

 very sandy track leading east, along 

 which we I ravelled some distance to 

 where P. L. (Pete) Williams was 

 waiting in his 4-whcel drive vehicle. 

 He directed George through the 

 worst sandy stretches and wet 

 patches, and finally the bus and all 

 other vehicles arrived at Broughton's 

 Waterhole. Alf Lewis and family 



C Desert). 



Plate I. At UrouuhtonV Waterhole (I nt.. 

 P. L, (Pere) Williams, Sept 1979 Yellow Qui 



•clvn Couttv 

 in hack- 



grond. ^S^W^uLlMri,) Wilhams h - *■ 



erasing accident a sad loss to conservation. p||o . o . Uf) M<wmm . 



June, 1971 



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