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vourite English Hawthorn. A lovely creeper, a species of 
Pronaya, was running over the bushes at the top of this hill, 
but though more luxuriant, I hardly consider it distinct from 
a species I formerly sent home. 
On the 28th, soon after setting off on our journey, I met 
with two splendid plants, belonging to Composite and the 
tribe of Everlastings. One has beautiful golden yellow 
flowers, in heads, little resembling any genus with which I 
am acquainted in this extensive family, it also occurred with 
White flowers; the other other bears blossoms of a lovely 
pink, and has lanceolate leaves, growing about two feet high, 
and bearing a general similarity to Rhodanthe Manglesii, or 
Lawrencella rosea, but if possible, finer than either. I can- 
not doubt that when these two plants become known in 
England, they will gain equal favour with any of the annuals 
now in cultivation. 
Ten or twelve miles from our sleeping-place, we reached 
à Curious kind of country, covered with what my sons had 
imagined to be flint; but as this mineral is unknown in a 
primitive country, I concluded it to be a variety of quartz : 
It breaks with a conchoidal fracture, and exhibits much simi- 
larity toflint. In many places the pieces are large and sharp 
angled, which was supposed to be the cause of our horses’ 
feet becoming sore; but when we alighted and led the 
animals over the worst places, they did not appear to be in- 
convenienced by these stones. This remarkable district pro- 
duces many fine plants, a Calothamnus, (54), with filiform 
leaves, nine inches in length, and large showy scarlet in- 
florescence, now in perfection ; a dark red Drosera, of which 
the calyx is wider than the corolla; this was apparently very 
rare, though I have seen it before; and another species, 
allied to stolonifera, (112), probably new. My sons had 
Seen here a Banksia, resembling Agquifolium, which they 
thought new, and yet had unfortunately secured no spe- 
“mens, and I sought for it in vain. i 
Before reaching the river, we passed over an extensive flat 
of stony clay land, covered with Eucalyptus and some re- 
