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Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia

CHAPTER III
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Capparis Mitchelii has a downy fruit, and is common in the scrubs.

A small trailing Capparis, also with oblong eatable fruit, was first observed on a hill near Ruined Castle Creek, in lat.

25 degrees 10 minutes: we met with it frequently afterwards.

We were encamped in the shade of a fine Erythrina; and the Corypha-palm, Tristania, the flooded-gum, the silver-leaved Ironbark, Tripetelus, and a species of Croton, grew around us.

A species of Hypochaeris and of Sonchus, were greedily eaten by our horses; the large Xeranthemum grew on the slopes, among high tufts of kangaroo grass.


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