Sunday Sept. 19: Back into the northern part of the big rainforest. Followed the main, or left hand, branch of the old timber haulage trail to where it forks near an old camp site marked by a big mango tree surrounded by second growth forest. From there followed the left hand branch up a good steep rise and crossed the Rossville water race at 1500 ft. Through forest improving generally with altitude, in regard to floristics, we followed the old timber to its end in the rain forest at 1800 ft. Was under the impression that a horse track, con- tinuing from the end of the timber road, went on to the tin mining settlement of Rossville. Found on inquiry from Jack Roberts that the bridle path leads off inconspicuously somewhere between the water race and the termination of the timber road. An English company, mining for tin at Rossville, built the water race many years (ca. 30 years according to Roberts) ago to carry water from near the head of Parrot Creek. In one place the race is carried thru a tunnel. Disputes arose with Shipton, of Shipton's Flat, over water cights, and Shipton, having his ground on Parrot Creek, won the legal decision. Monday Sept. 20: Preparing yesterday's specimens and packing dried materials. Tuesday Sept. 21: Marie left for Cooktown in Jack Robert's old Ford enroute to Cairns. She has accompanied me on all my field work here, apart from work on the mountain, and has spotted plants in the forests which I passed by and even Willie's sharp eyes missed. Hoping to find plants which we missed while track finding and blazing trail on Mt. Finnegan two weeks ago, Willie and I made another visit to the mountain today. Left Shipton's Flat at 6.45 and got back, with a nice lot of specimens, at 6 PM. Traveled steadily, with a few brief rest stops, until we reached the edge of the rainforest and the site of our former sub camp. Got there in two hours; then started to begin to collect. Some distance up the water-supply creek of our former camp I noticed open sky to the left. Investigating, I climbed a few feet to the crest of a ridge to find a sudden change in the vegetation from wet rainforest to stunted high mountain forest surrounding a rocky glade. From the glade the ground receded in a moderate slope, then, within 50 yards, the mountain seemed to drop away into empty ground. I was standing above the sheer bare cliffs which can be seen from a distance on the west side of the mountain. Lichenous granite rocks, surmounted by shrubs or masses of orchids, stood in the glade. The open ground was occupied by a dense cover of Dianella (an uncol- lected species) in early bud, and the same epiphyte-gone-to-the-ground orchid which grew on the rocks. Dead and dying trees on the edges of the glade were cluttered with tufts of a small, white, very fra- grant orchid, growing amongst mosses and hepatics. And in one corner I came across a single red flower of Rhododendron Lochae, Rhododendron is abundant in such habitats on the mountain, but this was the only plant of it that I found in flower. At 12:30 we reached the open rocky area at 3350-3400 ft. on the southwest side of the mountain. Smoke haze from distant, and not so