150 BOTANICAL INFOKMATION. 



Hab. On grassy or gravelly places in the Munyang Mountains, irri- 

 gated l)y tlie melting glaciers (5-6000 feet). 



Intermediate between T. spatJmlatum from the Antarctic Islands, and 

 T, pusillum froni New Zealand. 



- 112. Hseckeria ozothamnoides, F. Muell. ; branches scantily woolly; 

 leaves linear, mucronate, with revolute margin, beneath grey-tomentose ; 

 heads five- to sevea-flowere<J ; all the scales of the involucre upwards 

 pale yellow. 



Hab. In dry places on Barker's Creek, on the Upper Murray and 



Snowy Eiver. 



The species upon ^vhich I founded the genus originally may be 

 briefly thus characterized : — Hseckeria cassini(Pformis ^ F. Muell. ; leaves 

 semiterete, blunt, as w^ell as the branches scabrous ; heads two- or tbree- 

 flowered ; interior scales of the involucre upwards w^hite. « 



{To be continued.) * 



BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



The Mammoth Tree. 



For a few weeks lately a portion of this truly wonderful tree {Wei' 

 Ungtonia gigantea of Dr. Lindley, JFasJdngtonia gigantea of the Cah- 

 fornians, Sequoia gigantea of Dr. Torrey) has been privately exhibited 

 in the great room of the Philharmonic Society, Newman-street, Oxford- 

 street. This particular tree is the one noticed in our account of the 

 several giants which constitute the " Mammoth-Tree Grove " (see 

 p. 106 of our present volume). It has been stripped of its bark at 

 great labour and expense by Mr. Trask and his assistants to a height 

 of 116 feet from the base; and the portion at present brought over 

 by the intelligent proprietor, Geo. L. Trask, Esq., M.A., consists of 

 sections of the bark (from 18 to 22 inches thick !) taken from the 

 trunk 40 feet from the base. These sections, all numbered, are 

 placed in their proper position, and exactly represent that portion 

 of the trunk from which they are taken, and certainly nothing of the 

 kind has ever been seen in Europe before. The diameter is here 

 23 feet (at the base 30 feet). A door is formed and the interior 

 presents a nearly circular apartment, 20 feet wide. The colour of 



