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This differs from all known species in the caespitose fnlcate heads, 

 which are naked at the base on the convex side. The sporidia are not 

 yet formed, so that I cannot compare them with those of other species. 



(Tab. VIIL fig. 2.) 



480. C, racemosay n. s. ; stipite cylindrico nigro, capitulo ovato pro- 

 lifero. 



Hab. On a dead caterpillar. Myrong. (Hooker and Thomson.) 



Stem nearly two inches high, soiled below with fragments of earth, 

 above vi^ry dark, smooth, swollen at the top into a little ovate head, 

 which is covered with short processes, each tipped with an ovate knob. 



The fructification is not formed at present in the only specimen, 

 which evidently grows from a different and smaller caterpillar than the 

 last, and the stem is very different, so that it can be no form of that 

 species. The fructification is unfortunately imperfect. But for its 

 place of growth it might easily be passed over as an imperfect Balano- 

 pfiora. (Tab, VIII. fig. 3.) 



* Xt/laria Hypoxylon (Ehr.). 



Hab. Soane Eiver. (Dr. Hooter.) 



{To be continued.) 



Repo7't of a Journey of Discoveky into the Interior of Western 

 Australia, between Sfh September, 1848, and Zrd February, 1849 ; 

 by J. S. Roe, Esq., Surveyor-General. 



{Continued from p. \%Q,) 



Being desirous of searching as soon as possible for the coal which 

 our native had heard existed further to the westward, and in a position 

 so favourable as to admit of its being readily embarked in a boat, I 

 proceeded previously to ascend the Phillips, and to examine the good 

 country we had seen in its several valleys on the 21st. Here we found 

 much good grassy land in the vicinity of the river and of its numerous 

 branches and tributaries, the greater number of which came from Mount 

 Short and the Havensthorpe Hills, and were mostly fresh, though 

 sometimes brackish. Following that branch which led us most to the 

 westward, at the end of twenty-eight miles it had ceased to be worth 

 foUowiug, and we proceeded south-westward over generally a poor 

 country, but intersected by many small hollows and watercourses, con- 



