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The Queensland Naturalist June 1947 
Oenothera Drummondii, Mesembryanthemum aequilaterale 
(pig-face) and some plants of Dianetta caerulea. All but 
tlie last mentioned aie creeping plants. The dunes rise in 
height inland; perhaps they rest on rock. Here (la marina 
equisctifolia var. inecma (coastal sh e-oak) forms a zone 
of graceful trees with misty grey weeping foliage form- 
ing a delicate tracery against the sky. These trees are 
associated with some Banksia integrifoliu (bottle-brush) 
and with a ground-cover of Hpvrobolus virginicus with 
Lepturm repens, Mesembryanthemum aequilaterale and 
Ipomoea pes-caprae. Behind this zone there is a ten- 
dency to the development of a scrub of mere or less 
dwarfed and wind-blown small trees of Banksia integri- 
folia, Petalostigma- quadrttocularc, Acronychia imperforata 
and some Canthium coprosmoides. Bandanas pedun- 
cular us occurs as isolated individuals rising above the 
general canopy of the scrub (Fig. 2). This scrub posses 
into Eucalyptus forest. 
The rocky headlands are very windswept and sup- 
port a short dense growth of grass a few inches high, 
chiefly Tliemeda australis (kangaroo grass), though 
Eragrostis pubescens and other species may occur. With 
the grass occurs a number of shrubs, greatly dwarfed by 
the wind and sometimes no higher than the grass. 
Banksia integrifolia, Phebalium wuombye, Pimelea Uni- 
folia, and Hibbertio virgata are the most noticeable of 
these. An interesting yellow-flowering everlasting 
Helichrysum oxyUpis occurs here and there, often in 
grou'ps. Another yellow-flowered composite*, Podolepis 
longipedatum, and the grass Ischaemum triticeum , are 
occasional, while a tree of Pandanus pednnculatus is to 
be seen among the rocks here and there. Seepage slopes 
are characterised by the prevalence of the more or less 
rush-like sedges Scirpus nodosus and Cy perns poly- 
stachyos, with which are associated the grasses Ischaemum 
triticeum and the naturalised Axonopus comprcssus. A 
dwarf scrub, similar to that on the sand, tends to develop 
inland from the grass, often associated with some sand 
overlying the rock, and this passes into Eucalyptus forest 
still further inland. 
Eucalyptus forest in some form or other is the 
commonest vegetation-type (Figs, d and 4). The 
eucalypts include Eucalyptus iereticornis, E. qummifero, 
E. uric rant ha and E . dcccpla; On -the highest-ground exam- 
