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gether, as in some Orchideous plants; that is, a new bulb forms by the 
side of the flowering one, destined to flower the following season. The 
other double-rooted species alluded to appears on the banks of all the 
rivers and brooks from the Hill, often growing on their banks with its 
roots under water when the plant is in flower, but only in situations 
where the roots are dry in the dry season ; this species grows about two 
feet high, usually in large tufts interlaced and supporting themselves in 
that way, but seldom clinging to other plants for support; the flowers 
are small and of a pale lilac colour. 
I gathered a few plants of a beautiful new Drosera, with large scarlet - 
flowers; this plant was of a stiff upright habit, growing about a foot 
high, on the side of the lake Dalaru, in a spot where the ground had 
been covered with water in the winter. I found a curious little Cruci- 
ferous plant, apparently belonging to a new genus, among a cluster of 
Boordi (a species of kangaroo rat) holes, on the limestone part of Co- 
nolly’s station; the plant is an annual, with pinnatifid leaves, formed 
like Banksia dryandroides ; the stems grow flat on the ground, and the 
flowers are sessile in the axils of the leaves, but after flowering, the pe- 
duncles lengthen out, growing straight down, and burying the small 
round seed-vessels about an inch under the surface of the ground; I 
could not observe any partition in the pods when ripe, they were filled 
with seeds mixed with a gelatinous substance, similar to what appears 
on the seed of Cress, when soaked in water. 
On a sand-plain between Martin’s spring and the Hutt river, and 
also on the great sand-plain between the Hutt river and the Murchison, 
is found an aphyllous Dilleniaceous plant, apparently belonging to a 
new genus; when not in flower, the plant looks like Davigsia juncea ; 
the flowers are yellow, about an inch in diameter; the anthers, seven in 
number, are united in a tube round the germen ; the filaments free; the — 
seeds have an arillus, as in other genera of this Order. When in flower, 
this is a very ornamental plant. 
On Messrs Davis and Walcott's station on the Greenough, are two 
new species of Loranthus, both parasitical on the Raspberry-jam tree. 
One of them resembles Loranthus Preissii in foliage, but the tubes of the 
flowers are longer and narrower, and of a different colour, the lower 
part of the tube red, the upper half yellow ; they are also of a different 
shape, having a sort of ringent mouth. The other species has foliage — 
like Loranthus miraculosus, but they have a hoary appearance, being 
