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laurina, with beautiful small white flowei’s in racemes, and 
wheel-like fruit ; Lynoum glandulosum, with large orange- 
yellow bilobed fruit ; the handsome shrubby, prickly-leaved 
legume, Oxylobium trilobatum, with small, oblong, convex 
pods, bursting at the apex ; a form of Prostanthera ovalifolia ; 
a labiate, Bacularia monostachya (the Kentia monostachya of 
Bailey’s Synopsis) ; and the pretty walking-stick palm which was 
very abundant in both flower and fruit. The trunks of the 
larger timber trees, such as the species of Ficus, Cedrela, and 
Eucalyptus, were festooned with the climbing ferns, Polypodium 
tenellum and P. scandens ; while acres of ground were covered with 
a coarse form of Blechnum cartilagineum up to the horses’ girths. 
Here on the rocks by a clear rivulet was the pretty little filmy 
fern Hymenophyllum tunbridgense, in fructification ; there, 
were met with close at hand the mosses Rhizogoniiim 
spiniforme, Leucobryum candidum, Meteorium amblyacis, 
H^^pnodendron arcuatum, and H. curvato-comosum, Dicra- 
num dicarpum, Porotrichum vagum, Fabronia brachydonta and 
the pretty hepatic, Noteroclada c.onflueus ; and on a tree (Eugenia 
.smithii, which, by the way, had ripe “ lily-pillies ” on at the time) 
was the large lichen, Bticta camarae and a beautiful species as 
yet undetermined, golden-green with black apothecia ; and at 
its base that large moss, Dawsonia polytrichoides, resembling 
when fresh a young fir-tree. Crossing the watershed to 
the head of Spring Creek — a Condamiiie feeder — the first tree- 
fern (Dicksonia youngiin), comes into view, soon to be followed 
with as beautiful a prospect as one can imagine, thousands and 
thousands of these ferns lining the banks of the creek for three 
miles from its source downwards, and so closely packed as to 
impede anyone travelling through them. In front and stretch- 
ing away to Killarney down the mountain slopes, are immense 
■tracts of timber-land yielding the mahogany, black-jacket, 
messmate, tallow-wood, blue gum, silky oak, hoop pine, 
red cedar, and many other timbers supplied by the Killarney 
mills to the various markets. In the numerous creeks and gullies 
from here to Killarney were seen the elderberry-leaved Panax ; 
Verreaux’s croton, both in flower and fruit ; the myrtle-leaved 
Eugenia ; and Eupomatia laurina, an anonaceous plant, the petals 
•of which fall off by circumscissile dehiscence in the form of a 
