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flowers, though much advanced, were not fully expanded ; 
they were each surrounded by a handsome circle of leaves 
and many narrow ciliated scales, and I observed small tufts 
of these same scales in the axils of the flowering branches. 
The second species is equally distinct, it grows in large 
patches, and apparently creeps at the roots, throwing "p 
several branches two or three feet high, which do not divide 
again, except to produce flowers, these are often borne close 
to the ground, and in circles all the way up the stem, at the 
distance of eight or nine inches from each other. The foliage 
is circinnate, rigid and glaucous, beautifully reticulated above 
and somewhat ferruginous beneath, each leaf six or eight 
inches long, linear, strongly serrated for about two thirds of 
its length, but without teeth near to the stem, where it Is 
ciliated and hairy, this portion being permanent, and re- 
maining on the plant as long as it lives. The flowers of this 
species, judging from the old ones which I saw, are small, 
closely enveloped in numerous ciliated downy scales, with à 
chaffy receptacle, but apparently destitute of woody fila- 
ments. In both these species of Dryandra, the seeds are 
furnished with a woody dissepiment. 
On the same hill I gathered the beautiful and curious Eu- 
calyptus, (No. 49), of which I sent you seed-vessels and 
flowers; the inflorescence is rose-coloured, and as large aS 
that of E. macrocarpa; still it is readily distinguishable, a$ à 
species, by its less glaucous and petiolated leaves, with the - 
lengthened recurved footstalks of the blossoms and fruit; but 
I find that the winged seed-vessels and twin-growth of the 
flowers do not afford dependable characters. bs 
We returned to Yeinart, and slept in our Yumback house 
and the next day proceeded northerly on our journey. S00» 
after starting, we came to two Acacias that I had not met E 
before : one is strikingly beautiful, but very thorny, (No. 85), 3 
its stems elegantly striped with alternate green and glaucous 
lines, all the branches terminating in thorns and likewise — 
armed with thorns, standing out at right angles, so as almost — 
to render any touching of the plant impossible. The s 
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