Sept., 1924. 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
89 
various sedges and Restiaceae were found growing, the 
commonest being: Lepironia mucronata, Gahnia psitta- 
corum, Gladium mariscus, and Hypolaena lateriliora. The 
water grasses Pa.spalum scrobiculatum and the common 
Reed tPhragmites) were also growing. In the drier parts 
of the swamps Ilemarthria corapressa and Ischaemum 
australe were common grasses. 
(4) Peat Swamps or Turf-Moss Formation. — Lying 
for the most part a little furlher inland than tlie fresh- 
water SAvamps, separated from them by low sandy tracts, 
and lying at the base of the first large sand-hills are largo 
areas of peat swamps. Sphagnum moss was noticed in 
the area, but ]io)t to a very great extent, and other plants 
no doubt enter mostly into the formation of the i)eat. 
Though the peat-swamp is for the most i)art ^^ery wet 
and contains large bodies of more or less permanent 
water, for some reason not definitely understood, tlie 
water i.s not agreeable to the plants; this taken with the 
fact that the peat itself is poor in plant food material 
means that the plants growing on the peat-swamps are 
xerophytic (i.e., adapted to arid conditions). 
The peat-swamps of Moreton Bay and South-eastern 
Queensland generally jmssess a great many flowering 
shrubs and undershrubs, and during the spring months 
are usually gay Avith wild floAA^ers. These include, inore 
particularly, many Leguminosae, M3’rtaceae, Eparidaceac, 
and Proteaeeae of genera endemic in Australia. Resti- 
aceae and Cyperaceae are also usually well lanmesented. 
The floAvering shrubs seen Avere: Aotns lanigan-a 
(mostly in the edges of the sAvam]) and coAVred at Ihe 
time of our visit Avith yelloAV floAvers), Leijtospennum 
eitriodorum (Gitron-scented Tea Tree), Baeckea stcno- 
phylla, Sprengelia Ponecletia, and Epaeris mieTMiphylia 
(in full doAver) Piinelea linifolia Avas common in the 
SAvanip, growing as an uimight Avoody plant 2 -'^ feet in 
height. 
Parasitic on the Leptos])ermum Avas Gassytha gla- 
bella. TAvinod round the shrubby ATgetaition Avere Adras- 
taea salicifolia and Alarsdenia Fraseri. 
TnsectiA’oroiis ])lants always moia* or less character- 
istic of Peat-sAvamps G^lligh Moors’’) in all parts of the 
Avorld Avere represented by the sundcAVS Drosera binata 
(a handsome species Avith comparatively large Avhite floAv- 
ers) and Drosera spathulata Avith its small rosettes of 
reddish leaves. The sAvarap Grass Tree (Xanthorrhaea 
hastilis) Avas common. A feAv plants of Burmannia dis- 
