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acquainted. A curious plant also came in my way, near the 
Vasse, very much like what is figured and described in the 
lcones Plantarum, Tab. coxxxvir, it belongs to Compo- 
site, and under the yellow flowers there are five glandulous 
filaments. 
I reached Mr. Chapman's farm at the Vasse Inlet, soon 
after dark, and received there the kindest possible welcome, 
and next morning proceeded up the Vasse Inlet, to Cattle 
Chosen Busseltown; which, as the name implies, is one of 
the best dairy farms in Western Australia, though the whole 
district of the Vasse is noted for butter and cheese. Mr. 
Bussel is brother-in-law to Mr. Taylor, late of King George's 
Sound, a Scotch gentleman, who, having realized a consider- 
able fortune, and relinquished the intention of returning to 
his native land, nowlives with him. By these gentlemen 
and Mrs. John Bussel, wife to the eldest son, I was kindly 
Pressed to stay at their house, but Mrs. Molloy being a 
Botanist and an old acquaintance, I could not do otherwise 
than remain with her, during my abode in this neighbourhood. 
I have already given you some account of the plants which 
I met with to the south of the Vasse, but I omitted one, a 
lanceolate-leaved Stylidium, which I found in flower, and had . 
already sent you some specimens of, from King George's 
Sound. The weather rendered this excursion both unplea- 
Sant and unprofitable, the heavy rains keeping me wet, day 
and night: the whole time, nearly a fortnight, my shirt was 
Soaking on my back; so I will not annoy you with a recapi- 
tulation of disagreeable particulars; but proceed to say that 
Captain Molloy, being an old Waterloo man, would not 
‘Suffer me to depart till after the 18th of June, the anniver- 
. Sary of that battle: and on the night of the 17th there came 
=, one of the most extraordinary storms I ever knew; ac- 
companied with rain, wind, thunder and lightning. On 
W return to Australind I found that the Leschenault dis- 
trict had suffered from a similar visitation at the self-same 
. me. Its effects were first visible on a narrow belt of land 
~ Which lies hetween the Leschenault Estuary and the sea, 
