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BOTANISING OX THE SOUTHERN BORDER. 
cap or calyptra. The bases of the falls were thickly carpeted 
with the urticas, Elatostemma reticulatimi in flower— -with its 
queer lop-sided leaf, and a large-leaved form of Australiiia 
pusilla, the leaves being twice the size of those mentioned in 
Gaudichaud’s diagnosis. Leptospermum flavescens, a myrtaceous 
plant, \vas hei'e also in ripe fruit, together with Ehretia acuminata, 
with its large panicles of small berries ; the twining convolvulus, 
Polymeria marginata, was also in flower and fruit ; as was hIso 
the ver} large trailer, Cocculus moorei, having its leaves over a fool 
long and nearly as broad, while the flower sprays are barely two 
inches long. The ferns, Aspidium aculeatum and Davalia dubia. 
were growing with Polypodium aspidioides by the running water- 
together with the pretty prismatic rush, Juncus prismatocarpus. 
and Chloris truncata, a star grass. It would hardly do to leave 
IS without mentiomiig the various tree, rock, uiul terrestrial 
orchids seen on Spring Creek. Of the first were two Bul- 
S! ’ 15. exiguu.ii, the latter* 
minute species, with ilowers scarcely visible • and Lioari^ 
While on the scrub soil occun-ed 
veratrifolia, in full bloom bavins tl Calaiitlie 
2 feet to 8 feet high lir,'' ‘ 
It IS one of out most lioiidsome oi-chida *'* ''“I’-"'"*® 
[Note.— The papers referred to «« K • 
“ ’> (1891), are entitled 
and are to be found in the Nnv^. i at Killarney," 
issues of tlmt jomm.l. Befe™ “■> Nwember iU 
senes of articles by C. J. Gwytliei — ^ should also be made to s 
printed in “ Qwenshmder ” L., ‘/^otanising near Warwick, ' 
’ ■-'®'^^"ary- April, 1892 — Ed ] 
