User:Melburnian/Three Expeditions
VOL 1[1]
JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF THE KINDUR, IN 1831 AND 1832.
[edit]Dec 23 Calostemma candidum
January 17 Hibiscus tridactylites
JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION SENT TO EXPLORE THE COURSE OF THE RIVER DARLING, IN 1835, BY ORDER OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
[edit]June 19 Panicum laevinode
July 1 Trigonella suavissima
July 25. Atriplex halimoides
June 26 Capparis mitchellii
July 29 Cassia teretifolia Cunningham manuscripts [2]
August 15 Danthonia lappacea
August 18 Capparis mitchellii
August 23.
Vol 11 [3]
EXPEDITION TO THE RIVERS DARLING AND MURRAY, IN THE YEAR 1836.
[edit]March 15
March 19
Psoralea patens
March 20 Psoralea tenax
March 24 Trichinium alopecuroideum
March 25 Tripetelus australasicus
March 28 Indigofera acanthocarpa [5]
March 30 Acacia salicina
April 2 Trichinium nobile
April 6 Danthonia pectinata
April 7
April 16 Correa leucoclada [6] Calostemma carneum
April 17 Xerotes typhina
April 19 Solanum esuriale eaten [7]
April 20 Sida fibulifera
April 22 Sclerolaena bicornis Correa glabra
April 27 (Swainsona galegifolia)
May 4
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May 6 Trigonella suavissima Psoralea cinerea (122 [8])
May 9 Fusanus acuminatus Loranthus quandang Ropera aurantiaca
Traverse a barren region at some distance from the river
[edit]May 17 "we found a beautiful grevillea not previously seen by us"
Reach the Murray
[edit]May 27
June 2 Baeckea crassifolia [9]
June 5 Gyrostemon pungens
June 6 Cassia heteroloba
June 7 Leucopogon cordifolius
June 8 Trichinium lanatum
June 19 (Beyeria lechenaultii 181)
June 20 Acacia sclerophylla [10] Acacia aspera [11]
June 21
Pelargonium rodneyanum (184) (Erodium crinitum 184) Acacia farinosa [12]
June 22 Acacia acinacea (187)
June 24 Picris barbarorum Baeckea micrantha (191) [13]
June 25 Daviesia pectinata (Spyridium vexilliferum 196)
June 28
View from Mount Hope
[edit]Anguillaria dioica Eriostemon pungens (202) [14] Pleurandra incana (204) Baeckea micrantha (203) not new
June 29 (Hakea mitchellii 208)
July 1 ( Dodonaea viscosa subsp. spatulata 213)
July 5 (Grevillea nutans 219) [15]
(Acacia pycnantha Benth. Type: interior of New Holland [between the Loddon R. and Pyramid Hill, Vic.], 5 July 1836, T.L.Mitchell 222 ; ?holo: CGE.[16])
July 6 Pigea floribunda (223) (Grevillea alpina 224)
July 14
Ascend the mountain
[edit]Leucopogon glacialis At the very summit I found a small heath-like bushy Leucopogon, from six inches to a foot high. It was in flower although covered with ice
[18] Eucalyptus alpina (Eucalyptus × alpina)
July 15
Epacris tomentosa (247 Mount Blew [19])
Grevillea aquifolium (232, 244) [23] (233 Mount Blew) [24] (244 Mt Blew Grevillea aquifolium var. attenuata Meisn.[25])
Grevillea variablis (238) [26]
(Acacia paradoxa 239)
(Persoonia juniperina 250)
(Leucopogon thymifolius 254 Mount Blew[27])
We reached the banks of the little river where the horses awaited us in three hours, the distance being eight miles from the summit of Mount William ... Retracing our steps we reached the little river only at eight in the evening and, as I hoped to find a ford in it at daylight, we lay down on its bank for the night.
Ascend Mount Zero
[edit]July 20 Acacia strigosa [28] (Acacia aspera subsp. parviceps 260 )
July 22 (Conospermum mitchellii T: interior of eastern New Holland [Vic.], 22 July 1836, T.L.Mitchell's Expedition 263 ; iso: MEL.)
Ascend Mount Arapiles
[edit]July 23 Baeckea calycina (262 July 22)
July 28 Didimeria aemula [29]
Passage of the Glenelg
[edit]August 1
Bossiaea cordifolia not described
August 7 (Acacia verticillata var. ovoidea 282)
August 10 Acacia exudans (August 7 281) [31]
August 15 Correa rotundifolia [32] (Correa alba var. pannosa 287)
August 24 Correa cordifolia (Acacia melanoxylon 298)
August 29
Beach of Portland Bay
[edit]September 4 Mount Napier
September 7 Dillwynia hispida
Ascend Mount Abrupt
[edit]September 14
September 19
Acacia furcifera Acacia acinacea [33]
September 21 Bulbine suavis
September 23
Ascend Mount Cole
[edit]September 26
September 28
Ascend Mount Byng
[edit]September 30 (Grevillea obtecta in bud)
Discover and cross the River Barnard
[edit]The River Campaspe
[edit]Ascend Mount Macedon
[edit]October 5 Crossed the Campaspe
October 21 Danthonia eriantha