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The fourth and last plant I now submit to notice, is a most 

 curious departure from the ordinary or normal form of Plantcyo 

 major. I discovered three plants of it nearly together on Jiily 

 13th of this year, in a meadoA^, at Norton, in the county of Dur- 

 ham. On examination, each single flower will be found to have 

 grown into a separate spike of a close pyramidal form, and the 

 entire flowering panicle or head to have put on a most distinct 

 and compact pyramidal character ; so the variety may be distin- 

 gmshed as — pyra7nidalis — paniculis pyramidalibus densis. Smith, 

 in his 'English Flora,* vol. i. p. 214, says, 'Hhe rose-shaped 

 variety, and the panicled one, are often kept in gardens for the 

 sake of curiosity, and aflEbrd remarkable instances of vegetable 

 transformation." He mentions two varieties 



major. 



rosea,'' ibid. 



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Bauhin's work, as alluded 



j the woodcuts there given do not resemble my varie 



no means rose-shaped. In the accompanying paper (n.) I have 

 dried two flowering heads of the usual form of the Flantago major ^ 

 which were growing near this varied plant, in order that this 

 curious yet very beautiful transformation may be the more di- 

 stinctly apparent. The rest of the plant does not diffqr from 

 common growth of P. majw. 



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mical Eeport on the North- Australian Expedition, under the 

 commamj' of A. C. Gregory, Esq. By Dr. Feedikand 

 MuLLirfe, Botanist to the Expedition. Communicated by the 

 Colonial Office. 



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Botanic 



Sib, — I do myself the honour of transmitting to you a brief ge- 

 neral report on my botanical researches, instituted during your 



exDloratimi nf intftrtrnnical Australia. 



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advance 



al conclusions contained in the following pages, 1 

 introductorilv both to the extent and the directions 



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Head of Vhe Plantago major, very Uke my transformed plant ; but it seenw 

 less, and not so pyramidal in its entire form. " Mr. Baxter describes it as var. n, 

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