176 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
we dined with Mr. Tate, a young Irish gentleman, who has 
lately settled on the right bank of the Murray, about two 
miles above its junction with the Dandelup. This latter is à 
small river, remarkable for the fertility of its banks, which are 
nearly level with the stream; unlike those of the Murray, 
which are much elevated above its waters. Iu the latter 
case, of course, there is no alluvial deposit, though the soil, 
a strong loam, when manured, will yield heavy crops of 
wheat. The margins of the Murray river are covered with a 
beautiful Banksia, with nearly entire leaves, which I suppose 
to be Mr. Brown's B. verticillata; though, to me, it hardly 
appears specifically distinct from the long narrow-leaved | 
kind, of which I have sent you specimens in the last collec- 
tion. A fine new Manglesia, to judge from its foliage, grows 
on the sloping bank of the river, immediately at the back of 
Mr. Tate’s present residence, for he is not yet moved 
into his new house. This species is much like Tab. 
ccoxxxvr, of your Icones Plantarum; but with leaves 
more than twice as long and narrower, perfectly smooth, of 4 
deep green and not glaucous, as in that species. It attains 
the size of a small tree, with a rough bark, very different m 
these respects from the one you have figured, which is 9 
spreading bush, remarkable for its glaucous foliage and 
stems. Both are aquatics, at least inhabitants of river- 
banks, and their seed-vessels are much alike. On the banks 
of the Murray I also observed a shrub, with willow-like 
foliage and seeds in clusters, resembling those of Hornbeam 
which I had never seen elsewhere. 
. About two miles above Mr. Tate's house is the far-famed — 
Pinjarra, a most excellent farm of Mr. Oakley’s, who als? — — 
_ keeps a comfortable inn and store there. This spot is no+ 
in the history of our Colony, as being almost the only place 
where any approach to a pitched battle has occurred be- 
tween the settlers and natives, ever since the first occupe 
tion by Europeans of these districts ; the aborigines, owing t° : 
the extraordinary idea which they entertain, that the white — 
people are the spirits of their deceased relatives, have always — 
