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stretched in every direction. Our guides had promised to 
lead us to a hill inhabited by a species of Kangaroo, to which 
the Swan River people give the name of Damer, and of which 
my sons had shot several about a day's journey east of our 
station on the Moore River; but on arriving at this place, 
they declared our supply of flour to be altogether inadequate; 
and stated their intention of returning straight to the Moore 
River, so being unable to help ourselves, we were reluctantly 
obliged to yield. For almost the whole day, the same fine - 
country was around us, intersected by streams of running 
water, and bounded by hills equally clad with grass, where 
also grew the lovely yellow-flowered Everlasting, already de- 
scribed, a plant apparently confined to the richest land. 
When we had gained the station, a day was devoted to 
drying the plants we had collected. One of my sons brought 
me the foliage of that Anigozanthus, (97), of which I for- 
merly sent you the flowers; the leaves are a foot long, co- 
vered with clusters of white hairs, and afford a distinct 
character from A. flavida, the only described species that 
resembles it. He also pointed out, on an adjacent hill, a 
splendid new Dryandra, (42), called by me, in allusion to itso 
profusion of bloom, D. floribunda; it grows nearly fifteen 
feet high, with very narrow smooth leaves, and small golden 
yellow flowers, so abundant as almost to hide the foliage of 
the plant. I have only seen it on one hill, where it occurs m 
such quantities, that from a distance of some miles, the 
colouris as plainly descried as Furze or Broom on a ill- ~ 
side in Scotland. A small annual Lepidium, (103), and 9 — 
glaucous Acacia, (82), allied to the native Mauna, were m — 
blossom in the same habitat. ; 
We reached the Moore River by the way we had before 
travelled, and I only observed one new Acacia, (89) with SU : 
curious triangular stems and subulate recurved leaves, form- — 
ing thick bushes two or three feet high. Near the residence 
of Mr. Phillips, grows a second indigenous kind of Dock ; " 
has long and narrow broadly-auricled leaves, while in e 
