)Cil ,tvi H'Mi by N. A. Wakelicld 

 ihc headwaters of the Dargo 

 - )V ,-r wvtel Mount Holham. altitude 

 M,1 m (5500(0 A.S.L. This speci- 

 al it lodged in the National Museum 

 ,i victoria 



I F„ll\ Creek 



Dixon (IV7I.0 reported the dis- 

 .p^ry of Bitniiiiiw parvus from the 

 lulls ( reck lirCa of (lie Bogong High 

 IVjiiis. During the course of further 

 Ujd work by thai author at Ihis 

 utility an adull male Mu.Uiu nmy.\ 

 ,,,>, trapped on 24 May K»7I (Dixon. 

 W|7| ID The specimen, now lodged 

 ..villi the National Museum of Vie- 

 rria. was collected in iin area of 

 .ipiiic shruhs and snow gum ilju-a- 



turn* [uiuti flora) at an altitude of 

 I7V8 m (5900 11) A.S.I... 7.2 km 

 4 5 mis I soulh-wcxt of Palls Creek 

 1,1 }u 5.VS, long. 147- 1ST-,. 



1 A ire \ allcv 



Aiic Valley Forests Commission 

 Rt intation ( lat 3S" 398, long. 143° 

 ^ Li. altitude between 110 and 

 tyO m I I 100- 1 750 rtl A S I . lies 

 Hnui 3.2 km (2 mls| south-west uf 

 Olangolah. WhCTC Bra/cnor (19343 

 .nllccted MMtaioittyi fuxeUK, The 

 plantation, which covers some 2870 

 'tctates (7000 no) was established 

 g to restore 10 a productive 



jindilion some of ihe extensive par- 

 allv cleared land which had been 

 wlecicd under early settlement 

 themes in the 1880s and IS^Os and 

 Mer abandoned (Central Planning 

 Authority. 1957). The plantation 

 ■fen is now forested with cmufcts ot" 

 *\vrM species, mainlv Phuis nulimu 

 -nd I'Mttdonuvo mrniirxii. U pte- 

 • Kiuslv canted a typical WW sclcro- 

 phyll forest, dominated hy t i« <il\ptit\ 

 ygNtyU ami / hh&fUBA w iih asio- 

 C ..led dense umlcrMorcy plants 1 title 



euealypt lores! now remains in the 

 plantation urea, hut regrowth scruh 

 clothes creek gullies, sonic roadside 

 areas and the valley of the Aire Kivci. 

 It was in such areas of native hush 

 that exploratory trapping hy ihe 

 author in August ls>62 and April 

 l%8 yielded specimens of MiOhfi 

 cninyx. 



Soils in the area are podsolic— 

 triable grey loams on decomposing 

 Jurassic s.uidsiones (Central Planning 

 Authority. 1°?7) — anil are listed in 

 Ihe Atlas of Australian Soils (1^62) 

 aS Hatd Acidic Duplex Nnil> 



The mean annual lainfall ai Beech 

 Forest (which adjoins the north-west 

 boundary of the Plantation i is aboul 

 170 cm, with the hea\iest falls com- 

 ing in winter and spring but Irequeni 

 mists and fogs, coupled with heavy 

 dews maintain high moisture content 

 in the hush throughout the year, 

 f cmpcralure data are not available 

 for this section hut it is likely that 

 UVQISBC -annmcr maxima do not ex- 

 ceed 18 C with February being the 

 hoitesl month. In winter, the average 

 maxima are probably below 4.4 C 

 wuh June being the coldest month 

 (Central Planning Authonlv. U'57l. 



flic areas in which Mu.\U« omr\ 

 has been collected wen: dominated by 

 medium height (4.5-6 m) shrubs of 

 Ai-uciti inehvutxyltm with other shiub 

 species such as Caniniu lonyfoliti. 

 (>U\irui liraiti. O. tnnnphylhi, flfOS- 

 laruluru Itisiamhm and lledycitw 

 onvmiilolia scattered throughout. The 

 lower shrub layer was either ehaiae- 

 tenzed by other shrubs, e.g., I'inu-lut 

 ,L\\tlor,i, fiiir.uoki xpino\ti and the 

 introduced HyiHrirum aiulrouicmuni 

 or was dominated by the tree fern 

 Dicksomo anturclko. Tbc lowest 

 levels ol the undergtowth were norm 

 ally u dense tangle of Tt'irarihcnu 

 n.nn-ti. Rubin *P ■, Hypi-rimm and 

 terns, mainlv Polystiiliten rrotilemm. 



November. 1971 



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