BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 313 
3,600 feet, as stated in the recent map by Arrowsmith, only 
rises to 1,630. I had indeed been convinced from the as- 
pect of plants gathered there, that the height of Mount 
William was over-estimated, and on enquiry of Mr. Roe, the 
Surveyor-General, that gentleman showed me the measure- 
ment lately taken by Captain Stokes of the “ Beagle,” who 
makes it only 1,630 feet. On our journey we gathered some 
good plants, between the gorge of the Murray River and 
Mount William. A Dryandra, with the foliage very similar 
to the Luccombe Oak, ‘might be appropriately called D. quer- 
cifolia, There were several beautiful Leguminose, one of 
the finest among them, a Spherolobium, has large crimson 
flowers, 
We crossed eight or nine running streams between the 
Murray and Mount William, several so broad that we were 
obliged to unload the pack-horses to get them over. The 
very summit of Mount William is covered with large Maho- 
gany and Red Gum Trees, and a grove of the common Xan- 
thorrea. My Hovea grandiflora grows in great plenty and 
high beauty, on this mountain. I found a curious little Fern 
on the bank of one of the brooks, its barren leaves resembling 
8rass ; it is numbered 225 in the box now sent. 
Some months ago I made some observations in a letter 
to you on the country between this place and the Vasse 
River. I there gathered ripe seeds of Franklandia fucifolia ; 
it has a trifid awn-like crown to the seed, four inches long. 
À beautiful proteaceous plant is numbered 5, its long panicles 
_ of white flowers vary to rose colour: if it be not a Sympho- 
nema, it may constitute a new genus. Nos. 8 and 9 are, 
I suppose, species of Agastachys, their seeds being small 
berries, with a very thin covering ; 27 is an arborescent Lam- 
bertia, and 95 a remarkable Dryandra, inhabiting Cape 
in. There are two species of my Dasypogon Hookeri in 
the box; 31 is a fine Composite from the Vasse Inlet, and. 
37 a beautiful Calothamnus from Scot River, the gouty-like 
Swelings on the stem, whence the flowers are produced, 
often appear several years before the flowers come out. 
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