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in a common rat-trap baited with bread-and-butter. Mr. 
Gilbert obtained specimens of several small animals, about 
the size of rats and mice, which were brought in by our 
shepherds and by the natives. There appear to be many 
nondescript creatures of that kind here, some bearing their 
young, to the number of eight or ten, on the outside, like 
the Wombat, and others in the same way as the rat of our 
country, making nests in the ground, where they deposit 
their progeny. 
On the 27th, having procured two natives to accompany 
us, one of whom, named Cabbinger, had been with the party 
to the new river, we started; but as the day was rather ad- 
vanced ere all our preparations were complete, we travelled 
only ten miles, and slept at a place called Boorbarna. I 
found a leguminous plant new to me, and apparently belong- 
ing to the same genus which is so fatal to sheep and cattle ;* 
also a fine Conospermum with filiform leaves, growing close to 
the ground, and long panicles of blue flowers, varying to 
white. A Grevillea, with scarlet flowers, (30), supposed 
to be an undescribed species by my sons, seems to me 
though much larger, scarcely distinct from one which I 
sent in my last collection. On the top of a stony hill, 
north of the spring, grew an interesting plant, belonging to 
Scrophularinee, (66), with much affinity in its habit and fo- 
liage to the common Horehound; the leaves are smaller, and 
the flowers are scarlet tubes about an inch long. I gathered Jt 
a species of Manglesia, allied to M. tridentifera, from which 
it differs by the more divided leaves and creeping roots, - 
the plant only attains a height of two or three feet; : 
whereas the M. tridentifera, (Grevillea Drummondii of Preiss, : 
who so named it from a specimen he saw in Baron. Ludwig's 
garden at the Cape, when he was coming out to Swan River), 
is as large as a middling-sized Hawthorn, with no tendency — 
to creep at the roots. It is now in full flower on all the 
grassy districts, and is called by our settlers “ the Swan Ane 
Hawthorn," its numerous snow-white blossoms conveying» 
as seen in the distance, a reminding resemblance to the fa- p = 
* See p. 630, vol. 1, of this Journal, 
