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remarkable production, the most striking, perhaps, in the 
whole colony, I have given the specific appellation of 
Hookeri. 
The Vasse Inlet, following the winding of the road, is 
about 150 miles south of Freemantle; and the Dasypogon 
first makes its appearance on the side of the footpath (for 
there is no cart-road) to Augusta, about six miles south of 
the Vasse. When his Excellency, Governor Hutt, visited 
Augusta, last summer, he presented me with a leaf and 
head of flowers of this plant, but the leaves were narrower than 
any which I had observed, although I had travelled among 
an abundance of it for upwards of twenty miles. I have 
since learned, from Mrs. Molloy, that the Governor’s speci- 
mens were gathered at M’Leod’s Creek, about eleven miles 
tothe north of Augusta, and this settlement, again, is sup- 
Posed to be about sixty miles from the Vasse. Augusta is 
situated at the mouth of the Blackwood River, believed to be 
the same as the Beaufort, as the Williams River is now 
ascertained to be identical with the Murray. 
. The curious Asphodelous plant which I found at King 
George's Sound, is common in the Vasse district, and I ga- 
. “ered one specimen of it in flower. The prickle-like petals, 
_ 9f bracts, are purple at the period of inflorescence; there 
are six anthers, about an inch long, borne on filaments of the 
Same length, which are attached at their bases to the six 
Mterior petals: the style overtops the anthers by about a 
quarter of an inch. | Hour 
BY far the finest species of Boronia I have ever observed in 
, stern Australia, grows on the banks of swampy brooks 
between the Vasse and Augusta. Captain Molloy informs me 
de has seen it as high as his head, when riding on horseback. 
Its foliage is generally pinnated with four pairs of leaflets and 
9^ odd one, an inch long; the footstalks and the flowers 
: = ‘Solitary, large, and of a deep rose colour, springing from the 
fe axils of the leaves, on petioles about half an inch in length, 
each furnished with two minute opposite bracteas. The 
; e It varies, in having its foliage and stems smooth or hairy; 
