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shuts off the park and prevents either entrance to or egress from it. Here 
one may see at large, as nowhere else in Australia, many of the most remark¬ 
able members of Australia’s strange and interesting fauna. 
As we drove along the beach, great black swans rose from the lagoons 
and flew away, and in other places shore birds of various sorts ran across the 
beach at our approach. Within the park we found the swans and other 
water fowl very common. Of the birds, however, none were quite as 
strange as the emus, a flock of which frequented an open meadow not very 
far from the rest house where we stayed. Blue and scarlet parrots, and 
white cockatoos, as well as many other less striking birds, were not un¬ 
common. Kangaroos, which were not at all rare, were seen, and the so- 
called native bear, a most amusing little animal, resembling exactly the 
“Teddy bears’’ of the toy shops. 
The flora of the park, owing to the diversity of soil, moisture, and ele¬ 
vation, is a rich one. Along the coast are rocky promontories, extensive 
beaches, and sand dunes, on which were growing Mesembryanthemums 
and other dune plants, which were not collected. 
About the rest house was open grassland, which was bordered by exten¬ 
sive, dense thickets of Melaleuca sp. covering large tracts of swamp land. 
The lower hill slopes were covered with a thicket of mixed shrubs, much 
like the chaparral of our Californian hillsides. The most conspicuous mem¬ 
ber of this scrub was Leptospermum laevigatum , then in full bloom and 
very pretty. The largest members of this association were small trees of 
Casuarina sp., and other shrubs were Melaleuca sp., Acacia dealbata, Exocar¬ 
pus sp., and others. 
The dryer ground was occupied by an open forest of gums, but with these 
were many Banksias, comprising three species, the commonest being B. 
serrata and B. integrifolia. Both of these were trees of fair size, and with 
them were associated Acacias, Casuarinas, and Hakeas. 
The open spaces supported groves of grass trees ( Xanthorrhoea sp.), 
their stout flower spikes rising eight or ten feet above the crown of drooping 
leaves. These thousands of flowering grass trees made one of the most 
peculiar sights that I remember. The very profuse flowering was attrib¬ 
uted to the fact that the ground had been burned over the previous season. 
It was also on these burnt-over areas that there was the greatest profusion 
of orchids and sundews. In one such place we collected nearly twenty or¬ 
chids, of which some were very attractive. These included several species 
of Caladenia, Glossodia, Diuris—especially showy bright yellow flowers— 
Pterostylis, and several small species which were not identified. Among 
the Caladenias were several of the curious species known popularly as 
“spider orchids,” on account of the long slender extensions of the sepals. 
Hibbertia, Wahlenbergia, and several other pretty flowers were common, 
and one in particular was very handsome. This was an iridaceous plant, 
Diplarrhena' Moraea, with large white flowers that suggested an orchid. 
The flower is somewhat zygomorphic, and there are but two perfect stamens. 
