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during the greater part of the year. Flowers in November and De- 
cember. 
The root produces a fascicle of fibres. The leaves are expanded 
over the moist black soil, and are, with the petiole, from one to 
two inches long. The peduncle seldom rises to the height of 
one inch, and bears an elegant, tender white flower, rarely slightly 
yellow-tinged, which colour it however assumes in drying. Each petal 
is only provided with a solitary nectar-gland, and this character alone 
would separate my plant widely from R. Gunnianus, which grows in 
moist grassy places at the same locality. I have named this neat Ra- 
nunculus, the first new one which I observed in Australia, in honour 
of Angus M‘Millan, Esq., who not only deserves this slight scientific 
tribute for the discovery of Mount Wellington, and of many other 
mountains which he named and first ascended, and which border one 
of the finest and most delightful districts of Australia, Gipps’ Land, 
of which Mr. M‘Millan, under extraordinary difficulties and dangers, 
was the first explorer, but also as I wished to acknowledge thus per- 
manently my gratitude for much assistance which I received from him 
in my botanical journeys through this district. 
Other plants new to me are, a very curious one, perhaps a Kunzea, 
with the habit of Calluna vulgaris; a leguminous plant, like Temple- 
tonia retusa (which latter I formerly found on Spencer’s Gulf), both out 
of flowers and fruit; a broad-leaved Celmisia ; a species of Wilsonia, — pt 
apparently distinct from W. Backhousii ; a dwarf Leucopogon, which I 
formerly saw from Van Diemen's Land, and met with here for the — 
first time. Leucopogon obtusatus is abundant; Gaultheria hispida is 
seattered here and there, and descends sometimes to lower localities ; 
the natives are very fond of its fruit. The plant which I called, in my 
second annual report, Hriostemon phylicoides, proves, by its flowers, which _ 
— I have observed for the first time, to be a Phebalium, and is one of the 
finest species of this ornamental genus. Grevillea australis, Euryomyr- — i 
tus alpina, Bossiea distichoclada, Oxylobium alpestre, Hovea gelida, Ozo- — 
thamnus Hookeri, Exocarpus humifusa, Eurybia megalophylla, Goodenia — 
cordifolia, Celmisia asteliefolia, Ranunculus scapiger, Geranium brevicaule, — 
Callistemon Sieberi, Hibbertia minutifolia, Brachycome nivalis, Symphyo- — 
nura Filicula, Gentiana Diemensis, Mniarum biflorum, a species of Oreo- 
bolus, Lomaria alpina, etc., all grow also on Mount Wellington. On the 
swampy table-land, about 4000 feet high, occur Didiscus humilis, Ani- —— 
