102 NATIVE FLOWERS OF VICTORIA. 
with thick rope-like stems, were many climbers, with 
an undergrowth of ferns and shade-loving plants. 
Clematis, Tecoma, Passiflora, Kennedya — plants pre- 
viously referred to — clambered aU over the place, 
and associated with them were such climbers as Vitis 
hypoglauca, a true vine, with lobed leaves, evergreen, 
bright and shining, and with small bitter fruit, and 
Celastrus australis, another shining foliaged climber, 
with insignificant flowers, but with large clusters of 
elegant and massive orange-coloured berries. The 
vegetation along the river front was always luxuriant, 
for these and other climbers rambled aU over the 
trees, festooning them down to the water’s edge. 
Here one would often hear the mimicry of the lyre- 
bird, the clear call of the beU birds, and the sharp 
crack of the coach- whip bird’s call. 
Other eastern climbing plants are worthy of 
remark. Rubus MoUucanus is one of the forms of 
the raspberry. The fruit is insignificant, and the 
flowers are not very noticeable, but the foliage at aU 
times is very decorative. The leaves are large, the 
backs being covered with a thick hairy vestiture, 
sometimes greyish, but more often a pale rusty brown, 
and on the young foliage a pinky -grey. 
Rubus parvifolius is the small leaved blackberry- 
like plant, with pink flowers and red raspberry-like 
fruits, that trails among the logs and scrub in the 
moister parts of the State. 
Contrary to the usual habit of plants of the black- 
berry section of the rose family, Rubus rosaefolius 
is not a climbing plant. It sends a number of weak 
growths from underground runners and suckers, the 
