of the big rainforest of the Tabletop is much drier than the northern part. Apparently it lies in a cloud shadow behind Mt. Finnegan. The old timber trail passes through a savanna-forest pocket about quarter of a mile in, and ends in poor broken-canopied forest at 1500 ft. Returning to near the savanna-forest pocket from the 1500 ft. level I followed a big branch of the trail trending north to NE through better rainforest, and after a few hundred yards struck through a trackless area of tall forest to a small waterfall on Parrot Creek. Lunched there, and afterwards followed the creek down to near the west eedge of the rainforest. The creek runs strongly in its bouldery bed of granite, but the mosses on the rocks are dry and shrivelled with the dry weather. In a climate with a more evenly distributed rainfall a habitat like Parrot Creek would carry many more species of ferns and mosses than I have been able to find. Temperatures are increasing, and in spite of the dry weather, trees of the rainforest are coming into flower. In another month collecting should be good in this locality. As it is, I am doing better here than in any other rainforest on the Peninsula. Sat. Sept. 18: The whole day spent in preparing yesterday's plants. The smoke of bushfires has cleared away and the mountains stand out clear and close. This morning the thermometer dropped to 12 C; yesterday's maximum was 32 C. Hardly a cloud in the sky for the past several days. Glorious weather if one can go into the rainforests to avoid the midday heat of the open country.