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plant is formed of much divided green branches, from two 
to three feet high, and interwoven in such a mass as to 
resemble the flowering branches of Statice Tatarica; the 
blossoms are numerous, lilac-coloured, and highly fragrant 
and produced near the ends of the slender branches. The 
Second species differs in having bracteas, which run along 
the principal stems and terminate in bluntish leaves; this 
Plant is of rather lower growth than the first : the points of 
the slender branches are triangular, and its blossoms were 
not expanded. I gathered this latter kind in the vicinity of 
King George's Sound, and I think you will find specimens 
of it among my Proteacee, in the large box. | 
During my late expedition to the south of the Vasse, my 
Opportunities of discovering luminous phosphorescent Fungi* 
were rather better than I could have wished. For several 
days and nights I was incessantly wet to the skin, my lucifer 
matches incapable of ignition from the damp, and my hands 
blistered with making a fire after the native fashion; when, 
 9ne night, after all my efforts to procure a fire had been un- 
availing, I descried afar off, in the forest, a tree which I 
Imagined must have been set in a blaze by lightning. On 
making my way to it, I found that the light was produced 
by a remarkable Agaric, which grew, tier above tier, up the 
trunk of a dead Eucalyptus occidentalis. The species is dif- 
ferent from that which I described in a former letter: the 
Upper surface of the pileus being nearly black in the centre - 
and the gills milk-white. This curious property appears to 
"€ not uncommon among those Agarics which have the stem 
4t one side of the pileus, and grow on dead wood.” 
July 18th, 1842. 
ka Having written to you from Fairlawn, the residence of 
Captain Molloy, Government-Superintendent of the Vasse 
ce District, and given you: an account of a few plants which I 
found Principally between the Vasse and Augusta, I now 
+ Vol. Le P. 215. 
