Botany of Waterfall Gully. 
By Professor J. B. Cleland, M.D. 
'Y^ATERFALL Gully is situated on what was at one time called, 
and is still officially called, First Creek. This creek, emerg- 
ing from the Waterfall Gully, runs through Burnside, Norwood, 
Prince Alfred College grounds, and the Botanic Gardens. The 
Burnside tram terminates at the entrance to the Waterfall Gully 
itself. Passing along the road, one soon passes the house at one 
time occupied by Dr. William Wyatt, and now by Mr. Percy 
Ifould, high up on the left, hidden by trees. Dr. Wyatt planted 
a number of Australian trees and shrubs, as well as exotic ones, 
in his garden. These included Callitris (Native Pine), Acacia 
salicina (Broughton Willow), Native Peaches, and others. From 
this source, apparently, spread the Wild Lavender, Lavandula 
Stoechas, which now covers so much of the Green Hill, above 
the old house and the Greenhill Road, to such an extent as almost 
to require a change in name to the Grey-Green Hill. The Cape 
Tulip ( Homeria ) has established itself extensively just below 
this road as it passes round the hill. In the valley below, the 
introduced composite Osteospermum moniliferum had already 
established itself over thirty years ago. On the hillslope from 
Beaumont, descending into the gully on the right from behind 
the Frew’s old house, Sheep’s Burnet ( Poterium sanguis orb a') 
has made itself at home. Along the dray road, made by Sir 
Samuel Davenport from Beaumont House round the shoulder 
of the hills to reach Waterfall Gully, a little beyond the entrance 
to J. Dunstan and Son Quarries, the whitish Goodenia albiflora 
and the trifid-awned grass Aristida Behriana are both to be found 
on the travertine limestone. On the hill beyond Woolshed Gully, 
the second gully on the left, the introduced Cotton Bush, 
AscPepias fruticosa, at one time flourished but for many years 
has quite disappeared, apparently having been destroyed by the 
caterpillars of the Wanderer Butterfly, probably introduced soon 
after it. Its relative, A. rotundif olia , now so common on our 
hills and also a food-plant for the caterpillar, whose green 
chrysalids with golden spots may often be found on it, took 
longer to establish itself, but has been able to maintain its exist- 
ence. The Euphorbiaceous shrub Adriana Klotzschii, as well as 
the introduced Castor-oil Plant, Ricinus communis, may be found 
by the roadside just beyond Dr. Wyatt’s house. An introduced 
shrubby, soft-leaved Solanum (near .V. verbascifolium and S. 
auriculatum ) grows just outside the entrance to the reserve. 
The red gum (Eucalyptus rostrata), of which such magnificent 
examples are to be seen in the reserve at Burnside near the tram 
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