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cultivation, so I mean to leave this place about the beginning 
of October, bending my course first towards Mount William * 
and Saddleback. Afterwards I shall investigate the moun- 
tainous country behind Cape Leuwin and Cape Naturaliste, 
which, from what I have already seen, promises to yield a 
rich harvest of botanical novelties, and thence ascending the 
Blackwood River, which I believe to be identical with the 
Beaufort, I hope to reach the same spot where I crossed it 
in my inland journey to King George's Sound, and so fo 
travel south in that direction. During this expedition 
I shall be accompanied by my eldest son, and we shall hardly 
return to the Swan before the close of February ; the object 
being to collect this season all the seeds we possibly can 
secure of the southern plants. 
I have just been examining a very curious individual of 
the natural order Ampelidee, perhaps a Cissus, though un- 
described, if such, by De Candolle; but my want of a good 
magnifying glass renders it difficult for me to make out the 
number of its stamens, and often baffles me in the investiga- - 
tion of nearly allied plants. The leaves are cut, like those of 
the Parsley-leaved Grape, and the inflorescence is very small, 
borne in a sort of corymb, like Cissampelos, and succeeded 
by berries, which, when ripe, are blue, and contain, if perfect, 
four seeds. No plant can well be rarer than this appears to 
be ; I have known it for the last four years; but growing m 
a single spot and only two or three plants of it. Perhaps 
its natural tendency is to climb, for each corymb is furnished 
with a tendril like the Vine; but where I have found it, M — 
the top of a Quartz-stone hill, there is nothing for it to climb 
upon. When botanizing lately in the vicinity of the Vasse, 
I met with two species of an interesting Proteaceous plant, 
which I was inclined to refer to Mr. Brown’s genus Aga- 
stachys ; but his description led me to doubt it. In proceed- — 
ing southward, these plants first madé their appearance in the - 
open mahogany forest, after crossing the Capel River: they 
appear to be herbaceous. One bears a few lance-sha ce. 
leaves, growing close to the ground, but the great bulk ofthe | 2s 
