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Lepidosperma laterals, Track ystyl-is foliosa, and Themeda 
australis form a scattered ground cover. 
One small swampy stream visited carried a fairly 
dense vegetation similar to that on the wallum flat, except 
that towards the mouth tall Cludium procerum was rather 
common, and the flatfish margins carried a, rather dense 
growth of the fern Dryopteris gongylodes, and a few 
plant* of the rare grass Arthraxon hispid us. 
Tall trees of Melaleuca viridiflora (paper-bark tea- 
tree) form dense stands in places on seasonally wet ground, 
sometimes with the coarse sedge Cyperus lucidus associ- 
ated. Some of these stands are quite small in extent. 
A patch of rain-forest was hurriedly examined on 
a hillside surrounded by Eucalyptus forest. This rain- 
forest is not very dense and is remarkable for the large 
number of seedling trees of the hoop pine! Araucaria Cun - 
ningliamii. Tristania confer! a- is fairly common. Sloanea 
australis (maiden’s blush) is also common as a small tree. 
Particularly on the lower ground Calamus Muclleri (law- 
yer vine) is common enough, and other lianas, including 
Piper uorac-liollanrliac (pepper), Flagellaria indica, and 
Pothos longipes also occur. Platyeerium grande (stag- 
horn, fern). P. bifurcation (elkhorn fern), and Asplenium 
nidus (bird’s nest fern) are fairly prominent and several 
orchids — discussed elsewhere — are fairly common. No 
filmy ferns were seen. A small Lomwndra , probably L. 
filiform is, forms a conspicuous though sparse ground 
cover. 
NOTES ON THE ORCHIDS MET WITH AT THE EASTER 
CAMP NOOSA HEADS, 1946. 
By TREVOR E. HUNT 
From the point of view of one interested in our 
native orchids the stay at Noosa was all too short, as only 
a cursory inspection of a really interesting piece of country 
was possible. 
As a rule each type of country has its own particular 
selection of orchids so that some are to be sought in swampy 
land, some in dee]) scrub, some in open forest and so on. 
There at Noosa in a very small area, we had many types 
of country, scrub, forest, heath and swamp. Taken over 
the full range of the seasons the area should be very rich 
