ciMidbfl the ni,, e c of this vtMy 



HWd Npccies. Nicholas Donner 

 ..| S0 obtained extensive plum and 

 collections from most of 



t'a. Honocks Pass in l»67. 

 Rcx Filson. now CnpatM M Lich- 

 ,t the Melbourne Herbarium. 

 £ interesting higher plants and 



E.V Remarkable. Broad Creek 

 Q^rZe and AUigulor Gorge m 



Mv own botanical activities in the 

 ItriR, RlfldeW bave been centred at 

 Mi Remarkable October 1055, Sep 



V ||j gatot Gorge October f955 and 

 October 1969: Rett Germem Gorge 

 ,g Wfi &; Waterfall Creek near 

 BartB)|a is' 1 ' 60; TeiowJc Pot?! 

 ,„ 4 6U Winabaru Forest I0' l >'6l 



and Willowic 8/3/59. In the Novem- 

 ber 1969 issue of the S01///1 ^f/vfn/- 

 //««» Society for Grnwinn Australian 

 I'lants Journal 53 native species arc 

 recorded for the eastern slopes ol 

 Ml. Kemarkable and a further 55 

 occurring at Alligator Goigc. 



Conclusion 



Sonic of the greatest names in 

 Australian Botanical History haw 

 explored the Flinder* Ranges in 

 search of plant specimens. Their 

 efforts are praiseworthy and surely 

 an inspiration to future geneiations. 

 But despite all this work, the llora 

 is still imperfectly known and it is 

 hoped that as the National Parks 

 Commission gradually 

 parks they wil 

 (rallied ccologists. 



On a Botanical Collection from the Northern Flinders 

 Ranges, South Australia 



by DlKKtM L N. Kraemknbi I ML 



| D the Spring ol 1MC2 the writer 

 friends. Mr. tun Burden of 

 [Meet Kange and Mr. Ken Preiss of 

 BriUiftll spent four days from 13-16 

 October 111 the Northern Flinders 

 Ranges with ihe intention of photo- 

 graphing several of the known abori- 

 ginal rock (airviag siles in the Coplev 

 district. 



A| each of Ihe localities we 

 \hited. I obtained a scne> of 

 botanical collections of a varied 

 number of (lowering shrub species 

 regardless of the ver> harsh drought 

 condiuons then being sullered in the 



Interim nriutis nr swift AuMrtBa- 



VdJ hstie has c><rr been published 

 ..-> imc ftora of tins somewhat remote 

 ..„n Ihc explorer Pdward Jnh.i 

 \ mhed Mount Serle on 27 



August. and presumably col- 



lected plants Ihere. but these and 

 other specimens from his northern 

 expeditions were tragically lost in 

 VkLulc He mentions little about 

 the native vegetation in his Journals. 

 Thfl Melbourne Herbarium has plant 

 collections from Mount Serle which 

 weic obtained hv Major Peter War- 

 burton on one of his pastoral- 

 exploration expeditions into the 

 interior in ihe late IK50s. 



Max Koch, a competent German 

 botanist, made valuable collections 

 ftoin the Mount Lyndhursi region 

 between the sears to 1900 and 



wioic several papers in Ihe Trans- 

 afcffottS of ihc Royal Society of South 

 Australia I'wo decades later. William 

 ( MWM contributed I fourteen page 



Avigwt, 1971 



715 



