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(No. 84), is thornless, and about two feet high, it has short 
truncated leaves and sulphur-coloured flowers. 
We mistook our road, and found ourselves at our old sta- 
tion of Badgee-Badgee. On the way, I picked up a Legumi- 
nous plant, (No. 80), apparently of a genus that had not 
come under my notice ; the leaves are narrow, lanceolate, and 
terminating in a prickly point, each furnished with two 
strong decurved prickles, which seem to serve as stipules; 
the flowers are large and showy, but I looked in vain for 
seed-vessels. We had stopped to dine and feed our horses 
at Badgee-Badgee, and in some pools of water among the 
rocks I gathered several curious aquatic plants; one re- 
sembling a Zostera, the male flowers borne in the axils of 
the lower leaves, and the female ones on elongated foot- 
stalks springing from the axils of the upper leaves. There 
was a plant with leaves floating on the surface of the water, 
like a Callitriche, (99), and a blue-flowered creeper, (101), 
apparently belonging to the genus Elatine. From this place 
it was very difficult to trace our road to our new station on 
the Mouran Pool, the cart-marks being almost obliterated by 
the trampling of sheep. On our arrival there, we ascer- 
tained that the exploring party had returned, and that one 
of my sons and Captain Scully had started on their home- 
ward way only half an hour before we came. The mutilated 
Specimens of some plants which my sons had brought, to- 
gether with a report of others which had been forgotten and 
left behind at one of the bivouacking places, stimulated my 
curiosity so much that I decided on visiting the newly-dis- 
covered river myself. We stopped, however, one day at 
Mouran Pool, examining the hills in the vicinity, where grew 
a fine glaucous-leaved species of Anadenia, whose abrupt 
foliage ends in teeth of very various breadth. 
A kind of Rat, very like the Norway rat, but smaller, in- 
habits this part of the colony, and commits great ravages 
among provisions, by getting into the huts, and gnawing 
holes in the bags of flour, &c. My youngest son and Mr. 
Gilbert succeeded in catching seven or cight of these animals 
