When id >* 5I > whilsl a , '° ncl >; 

 " K , |fe EltfBrt Range. I found 



W« K«/W&«ii wa 1 Ml,unl Wm* 

 £, the thought occurred to me that 

 'L j tfiAed 'ume of that mountain 

 IftCO ascended by mc might be 

 pnlicd to Ujfo new Acacia, because 

 il lilso was 'remarkable' in home 

 MpUca particularly in the position of 

 „ a K thus *« adjective 'nula 

 S became first introduced for nam- 

 L „, Botany- since then several 

 ufom have Utilised the word." To- 

 d, v wc can only marvel at Or Muci- 

 n's pluck in traversing unknown 

 rtjynm and surviving the perils ol 

 ,njury, thust or surprise anack by 

 hostile aborigines. 



John Edme Brown, Conservator ot 

 Forests in South Australia (1879- 

 I SMI I | , collected near Bectaloo. Wh- 

 ftkftft PblEW, Mt. Brown and Mt. 

 K,-Maikab|c. A few plants occurring 

 in. ,hc Flinders Ranges were used 

 lo illastnite the handsome colour 

 , .... „r -The POTfiSa Flora ol South 

 Australia", fluhcu i,/mV.j««. U ehd- 

 sraic Huh;, trom ntai Par-.chilna 

 QptSG cummciiioraU-s his name 



S.mmel Di\0», a Foundation Mem 

 Ivr of 'he Field Naturalists' Section 

 of the Royal Society, arid one of the 

 early pioneers of conservation, was 

 interested in the (odder plants ot arid 

 regions He collected near Gladstone 

 :nid Rockv River \Trymalutm wayi 

 was one of these plants | and wJjOJ 

 [ bees m Ihe Lower Minders in the 

 early I SStis Some ol his collections 

 arc preserved at the State Herbarium, 

 Adelaide. The plant \ci\caulin iliM>nt 

 fan Crystal Brook, recalls him. 



Profe.vsor Ralph Tate collected 

 Lnmophilit loniiitnliii at Mount 

 Brown m 1881, but I am umiwaic of 

 rvi» othifr movements thutuiduttir lire 

 Southern Flinders Range n that year 

 Wtnx of his work was eouecntnilrd 

 turihei north i»i Ardcn \a)c. the 

 Arcouna Rangv. Wilpen.. Pound and 



Augutl. 1971 



towards ihe ca.stern shores of l ake 

 I on ens. The results of this journey 

 are embodied in the paper "List of 

 some Plants inhabiting the North- 

 eastern Part of the Lake Tort ens 

 Basin". 



Waiter Gill who succeeded J F 

 Brown as Conservator of Forests 

 (1890-1923) discovered Armia vnui- 

 kfolia at an un-namcd locality in the 

 Southern Flinders Range in 1900. 

 Phis species was later described in 

 1927 by .1. H. Maiden. IFucalypmx 

 •jillii is named after him. 



2: 7/tc I mm Scvcntv Yean 



Mas Koch collected 200 $&dM 

 cd plants near Port Pine in 1901 As 

 was his custom, duplicate sets of 

 these were sent to many Botanical 

 Institutions in F.urope 



fa 1902. Charles Johncoek pub- 

 lished two papers in the 7Vom. R. 

 Sin. S. Ami, "Notes on the Loran- 

 thaccac of the Willoehra Vallcs" and 

 "Further Notes on the Botanv of the 

 Willochra Vailcy". He made a 

 further contribution to the same 

 journal in 1903 entitled -Notes <«n 



1 oranthus evoc-arpi". 



John McConnetl Black, author of 

 rintu ot JtoWfc Auslraliu, was an 

 indefatigable collector of plants from 

 all parts of South Australia. There 

 arc specimens in the State Herbar- 

 ium. Adelaide, from Hundred of 

 Howe near Hughes Gap 2^/9/06; 

 between Gladstone and BcctaJuo 

 9 |0 OS; Quom l'10'l*; Gladstonc 



2 V 8 21: Tclowie Gorge October 

 1 92 3 ; Mount Remarkable October 

 1925 and lb 8 '27 and Nelshaby 

 1 2 '9 '32. 



Befoie he resided in Adelaide, Mr. 

 Black's fatvi'K fitrtned at Baroota for 

 five vears I mm 1877-1882, He has 

 described a number of new plant 

 vecies from the region. 



William Austin Cannon, an Ameri- 

 can botanist, explored many areas 



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