month of January. In our conservatories, where, accord- 
ing to Hortus Kewensis, it has been an inhabitant since the 
year 1803, it usually puts forth its oval heads of flowers in 
March ; and continuing its blossoms during the two suc- 
ceeding months, is a most desirable plant for greenhouse 
_ cultivation among other compatriots in our possession from 
the sterile shores of South-western Australia—a locality, so 
desert-like in aspect, yet so rich in the rarer and more 
diversiformed species of the great and splendid family to 
which our plant belongs. Beyond its remarkable habit, 
and the density of its extremely attenuated foliage, it holds 
out other recommendations to the care of the botanic culti- 
vator ; namely, its freedom of growth, and the readiness 
with which well-ripened cuttings take root. Our thanks 
are again due to our liberal friend, Mr. Arron, for the spe- 
cimen furnished us last spring, by which, the means of 
publishing the first figure of so interesting a plant, has been 
led us. i 
Descr. A robust shrub, usually about three feet high, 
very much branched ; branches smooth, densely clothed with 
leaves, spreading, often pendent. Leaves very linear, six to 
eight inches long, pinnatifid, truncated at the apex, smooth 
and dark green on the upper side, clothed with a white 
tomentum beneath, very attenuated and entire at the base: 
lobes alternate, triangular, decurrent, spreading, apex acute 
and uncinated, the margins recurved. Involucre terminal, 
solitary, oval, formed of numerous, imbricated bractes : the 
outer ones ovate, acute, inner oblong and bluntish, ciliated, 
and clothed with a thin adpressed tomentum. Receptacle 
chaffy. Flowers numerous, bright-brown, included within 
the involucre. Perianth deeply divided into four parts ; 
each segment very linear, thinly clothed with spreading, 
white hairs towards the claws, which are themselves very 
woolly, base, however, quite smooth. Lamina slightly 
silky, Stamens four, inserted in the concave lamine.  An- 
thers linear, apiculated, shorter than the concavities in which 
they repose. Style smooth, terete, enlarged somewhat at 
the base, and angular, the length of the perianth. Stigma 
simple. Hypogynous scales four, each lanceolate, and 
attenuate. 
_We know not that we can do better in occupying another 
page, than by giving publleabon, "9.8 note furnished us 
by Attan Counninenam, regarding another subject of the 
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