terminus, does not, now at least, extend up the valley beyond the 
turn-off to the quarries. As the Waterfall Gully is cultivated 
almost throughout its extent below the reservoir, few of the 
indigenous plants remain. Acacia rhetinodes, one bearing the 
mistletoe Loranthus Prcissii, appears as a few small trees beyond 
the hotel, where are also to be seen a few shrubs of Senecio 
hypoleucus. The Common Reed ( Phragmites communis) re- 
mains in suitable wet places. The introduced Water-cress occurs 
in abundance in the creek bed. A few clumps of another intro- 
duction, the Rice Grass ( Oryzopsis miliacea ) have established 
themselves by the roadside. 
The hills bordering the valley on either side as far as the 
reserve are, and probably always have been, mostly grassy, with 
scattered trees of Eucalyptus leucoxylon, on which the mistletoe 
Loranthus Miquellii is now very abundant. The seeds of the 
cultivated olive have been widely distributed by the English 
Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and the small trees cover many parts 
of the hills, yielding a small supply of fruit. The manna gum 
(E. viminalis) grows on the heights as the reserve is approached, 
gradually descending to the bottom of the valley in the reserve 
itself. A few sheoaks ( Casuarina stricta) grow amongst rocks 
and some examples of Acacia rhetinodes dot the slopes. The 
undershrub Lotus australis is also found on the slopes. 
Waterfall Gully rapidly narrows as one passes up it and, 
by the time the reserve is reached, the hills on either side close 
up so as to produce a gorge. Looking towards the reserve as 
one approaches it, a striking difference is seen between the vegeta- 
tion on the higher quartzite portions of the hills, consisting 
essentially of stringybark, mostly Eucalyptus obliqua , with a 
dense undergrowth of shrubs, and the lower portions of the hills 
with widely-spaced blue gums (E. leucoxylon) and manna gums 
( E . viminalis) and grass. The bed of the creek below the first 
waterfall contains few of the original trees or shrubs, having 
been planted with various exotics. Some fine manna gums are 
amongst the survivors. The same applies to the edge of the 
reservoir basin. The tree ferns here are, of course, exotics, 
though the tree fern, Dicksonia antarctic a , was at one time an 
inhabitant of this gully. 
The steep hill-slope on the right or south side, leading up 
to the Eagle-on-the-Hill, is more or less grassy. Its western end 
shows scattered blue gums (E. leucoxylon) , mixed with manna 
gums at the summit ; there are also a few olives and small trees 
of Acacia rhetinodes and shrubs of Asclepias rot-undifolia, and 
bracken just above the creek. Easterly, the slope becomes 
rockier, and sheoaks take the place of the eucalypts. Here also 
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