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By J. B. Clrland, M.D. 
S.A. NAT.^ VOL. xnr. 
Mav. 1933 . 
the (land of man or the inroads of exotic weeds. This flora is. 
met with immediately on leaving the train at Marino or Marina 
P.ocks, and its accessibility makes a description of it advisable. 
With the exception of an occasional She-oak (Casuarina 
siricta) still left forlorn in a little gully south of Kingston Park, 
all t!ie plants are low or small. In October, Velleya paradoxa^ 
with its large yellow slit corolla, is. though lowly, conspicuous 
and abundant; the related smaller Goudema phrnatifida is also 
common. In the station yard at Alarino, as usual probably on 
a limestone base, is the erect whitish-flowered Goodema albijlora, 
in habit rather resembling a crucifer. The spreading Scaevola 
microcar pa is also fairly abundant. Ihere are two Zvgophyllums 
with their yoked leaves: Z. Billardieri is common, especially on 
some of the cliifs, and has a diffuse or, when opportunity offers, 
a scrambling habit; the large-leafed Z. yjancescens is rather 
rare, though plants grow beside the railway station. Pomaderris 
racemosa as a low shrub is frequent in places and is usually 
wlndswe]U. There are a few colonies of Acacia obliqua and oc- 
casional shrubs of A, annata, A. Hgidata and A. Victoriae (A. 
scjitis). The latter, a prickly shrub, is very widely dispersed in 
the State though absent from man\' districts; it occurs for Instance 
near Eurelia. in the Far North and in Central Australia. A 
glaucous Olearia is common. especialK' near the sea. Amongst 
the shrubs, both on the open cliffs and also near Kingston Park, 
are a number of small narrow-leafed bushes of the parasitic 
Native Peach {liucarya acii^ninata) \ these are only three or four 
feet hio-h and the mother-trees must have long disappeared; none 
show signs of tlowering or fruiting; some of these in Kingston Park 
were ^rowing through Beyeria Leschniaidtii, an Euphorbiaceous 
plant \x‘ry common here on the slopes of tlie cliffs. Other small 
slirub' onl}' occasionalU^ seen are Hakea nigosa; the Tea-tree 
Melaleuca puhesrens (here only two or three feet high) ; Dodonaea 
vh'cosa (Kingston Park); and, especial!}' near the sea the rather 
pricki}-. glossy leafed Epacrid Acrotriche patuhi. There are a 
few plants of the show}* Calythrix tetragona. The yellow-flowered 
Ptmeiea serpyHifofia is widespread; there are occasional plants 
of Stackiwusia monogyna and here and there a colony of Ku~ 
phrasia rollina (Schophulariaccae) . Amongst small Composites 
Podolepis Lessonii "with spreading branches, yellow flowers and 
stem-clasping leaves at the forks is common: Leptorrhynchus 
sqnamatus, somewhat like it but with more erect branches, and 
H elichrysum aptcidatum much less common. H. sevvipapposum, 
very like the last named, and Microseris scapigera are rare;: 
