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You noted this on the spot, and took away with you for 
examination a fruiting part of the plant. 
Another specimen, also gathered by you, belongs to La 
Bilbu’diere’s Pimelea ligustrina , so named in the beginning 
of this century, when specimens were collected in Tasmania 
during Admiral D’Entrecasteaux’s expedition. Yours is 
an alpine variety of that species. The fibre of the bark 
is of extreme toughness, and the whole plant is acrid ; but 
the bark can be utilized in medicine as a therapeutic sub¬ 
stitute for the bark of Daphne Mezereum. 
At the Diamantina Springs, and elsewhere on the slopes 
0 f the lofty ranges, we found, as well as the bright ever¬ 
lasting, everywhere growing in luxuriance and with the 
richest blossoms, the snow-white Helipterum punctatum 
(De Candolle)—a plant with flowers like a small marigold; 
Senecio lautus (Forster), the yellow Euphrasia Scabra 
(11. Brown), the blue-purple E. Brownii (Ferd. von 
Mueller), the rich green leaves and purple and yellow 
blossom of the Brachycome ciliaris (Lessing), the pale- 
yellow flower of B. nivalis (Ferd. von Mueller), the 
beautiful Wahlenbergia gracilis (Alpli. de Candolle), and 
Prasophyllum patens (R. Brown). 
Amongst other plants collected were Stellaria pungens 
(Brogniart), Pultencea fasciculata (Bentham), Oxylobium 
alpestre (Ferd. von Mueller), and Orites lancifolia (Ferd. 
von Mueller). 
Nature in these regions has not been interfered with 
by man ; and yet there was something almost artificial in 
the aspect of the hollow around the Diamantina Springs. 
The richly foliaged shrubs seemed to have been set in 
their places in obedience to rules of art, and the flowers 
did not much mingle with each other. Through the thick 
