BOTANISING ON THE SOUTHEEN BOEDER. 
BY 
C. Julian Gwyther. 
(Read on 16th March, 1893). 
A resident of Killarney having long talked of the beautiful 
vegetation he had viewed when travelling along the mountain 
horse-tracks to the heads of the Condamine, Koreelah Creek, 
and back by Spring Creek, inspired me with a wish to 
examine the flora of the district; which, being out of the way of 
most “weed collectors” — as science-despising people are apt to 
dub followers of the goddess of nature, I fancied w'ould probably 
yield up something new to science. However, I am disappointed 
in this respect in tlie phanerogamic collection I have made, 
though many plants were not to be despised for they presented 
greater variation than they do in the immediate Warwick district. 
I may mention that through F, M. Bailey’s (Colonial Botanist) 
kindness I have been able to locate most or all of those collected, 
though some specimens of the lower orders of cryptogamic flora 
have been submitted to European specialists, the results of 
whose scrutiny it will be interesting to know. A year or two 
ago Mr. Bailey made a visit to the Killarney district, and, 
examining the plants in the immediate vicinity, wrote two 
interesting papers on the subject to the Qiteemhouhr, I am 
not aware tliat he penetrated more than eight miles from the 
township, so that some of the members of our Society may be 
interested in the change in the larger area collected over. On 
travelling up the bed of the main stream the noticeable vegetation 
is almost entirely conflned to timber trees, such as the scribbly, 
white, or swamp gum (E. hajmastoma) a very large though 
useless tree growing chiefly on its banks ; the yellow-jacket (E. 
ochrophloia), whose light crown of foliage shows plainly against 
the dark straight hoop-pine (A. cunninghami), seen high up on 
the mountain sides; and the swamp oak (Casuarina glauca, var.) 
