I. THE WESTERN END OF THE RESERVE 
1. The fiats surrounding the main oval. 
2. The ironstone section, along the north side. 
3. The rising, open portion on the east. 
1. The Flats Surrounding the Main Oval 
Trail No. 1, S. to S.E. 
RAKING as a starting point the main entrance to the reserve 
at the Belair Railway Station, the first trees seen (apart 
from planted ones) are red gums along a small creek leading 
to the main oval. On the ridge to the east the peppermint is 
found growing. Some very large trees of red and blue gum 
surround the main oval ; one red gum is five feet in diameter 
breast high. In a small creek there is found a rush (Cy perns 
vaginatus) , a hop bush ( Dodonaea viscosa) and century 
( Erythraea) , a herb with very bitter leaves. 
Taking an easterly direction from the main oval, the flats 
contain mostly red gum ; there are. however, a few manna gums 
which would appear to be outliers of the main group in the hills 
further east. Christmas bush ( Burs aria spinosa) was in flower 
(February 18, 1933) along a small creek. The golden wattle 
( Acacia pycnantha ) and the native cherry ( Exocarpus cupressi- 
f or mis) were seen here in flower. Away from the influence of 
the creek the peppermint gum is seen and is here mixed with 
red gum. With these trees are found the autumn amaryllid 
( Calostemma purpureum — in flower, February 18, 1933), the 
vanilla lily ( Dicliopogon strictus), also in flower and having 
a strong, sweet scent of vanilla, “cranberry” ( Astroloma 
humifusum), Bossiaea prostrata , milkmaids ( Burchardia um- 
bellata) and sheeps burr (Acaena oinna). 
Now taking a south-easterly direction and encountering a 
gradual rise, the peppermints are more numerous, while the red 
gum is almost wanting. Associated with the gums in this 
locality are shrubs of golden wattle ; a short round-leaf wattle 
( Acacia obliqua) ; a prickly heath (Lissanthe strigosa) ; dwarf 
wallflower ( Pnltenaea largiflorens) ; Hakea rngosa; a mat- 
forming legume (Pnltenaea pedunculata) ; the dainty lady's 
Angers ( Grevillea lavandulacea) ; Calocephalus citreus in flower, 
February 18, 1933 ; honey flowers ( Acrotriche serrulata ) ; guinea 
flowers ( Hibbertia spp.) ; a white daisy probably Olearia 
ramulosa; a deep blue-flowered Lobelia (L. gibbosa) with a 
wonderful life history, being able to dispense with the work of 
its roots while in very early bud, and by means of sap stored 
in the stem is able to come to maturity some months afterwards 
(in flower February 18, 1933) 5 Bossiaea prostrata; the hare- 
bell ( Wahlenbergia sp.), in flower and an occasional blue gum. 
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