212 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
A FLORAL SURVEY OF THE SOUTH WESTERN 
SLOPES OF N.S. WALES ROUND ABOUT TEMORA 
AND BARMEDMAN. 
By Ricur Rey. J. W. Dwyer, D.D., Bisuop or WAGGA. 
The following list of plants gathered in my wanderings 
of five years round ‘lemora and Barmedman is fairly exhaustive 
as far as Flowering plants—both di- and mono-cotyledons are 
concerned, but not much farther, and may serve as a founda- 
tion on which the floral surveyors of this or any other sec- 
tions of N.S.W. may build their edifice. 
The AREA covered extends along the railway from Stock- 
inbingal to Wyalong and includes an average strip of 10 or 
15 miles on each side of the line, and the area is typical of 
almost all the country that links the tablelands of the South 
West with the Western plains. 
_I have tried to indicate, though I fear very imperfectly, 
the class of geological habitat in which the plants have origin- 
ally flourished, and a word about the soils may be beneficial. 
Included in the area are several distinct SOJL “formations. 
The general formation from Stockinbingal to Barmedman is 
undulating, ie. flats and low ridges whose soil is red loam 
on the flats and clayey or shaley on the ridges. On many of 
these ridges ironstone and quartzite pebbles are mixed in the 
soils. On these ridges the red Tronbark tree (Mucalyptus 
sideroxylon) is usually very predominant and in my lst I 
have called them Ironbark Ridges, which with the low ground 
at the foot thereof I have abbreviated into the symbol “I.B.R.,” 
and these are found round ’emora and Barmedman and even 
in the Mallee serub at Wyalong. In several places between 
Temora and Barmedman there are fairly high hills of Granite 
rock rising from low flats which contain rotted granite as a 
notable part of their composition. This is the haunt of the 
Currawong Wattle (:lcacia doratoxylon) and others and [ 
abbreviate these hills and their foothills as “G.H.” The in. 
tervening Flats are either ‘red loamy soil washed down from 
the hills and marked in ‘my lists as “R.S.F.,”’ 7.e., Red Soil 
Flats, or they are what are known as Black Soi) Plains 
(B.S.P.), consisting of tough clayey limey black stuff that 
sticks like glue when wetted... These are often pitted with 
shallow depressions called ‘“Gilgais’” or “Coolamon Holes,” 
which in wet seasons become lakelets and swampy. From Bar- 
