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south of the Irwin; it is a shrub growing five or six feet high, with a 
broad bushy top; the leaves are narrow, linear, about half a foot long 
and a quarter of an inch. wide, glabrous above, with small teeth at the 
edges; the flowers resemble those of B. Prionotes.. A fine Banksia 
with leaves like an evergreen oak, and pale sulphur-coloured flowers 
larger than the flowers of any described species except grandis, is seen 
sparingly on the sand-plain to the north of the Hutt river. Another 
new species, with leaves and flowers like Banksia Prionotes, grows with 
it; the leaves are broader, with larger and deeper divisions, and when 
full grown it isa bushy shrub not exceeding twelve or fifteen feet in 
height, whereas B. Prionotes is one of the tallest and quickest-growing 
species of the genus. Another new Banksia grows on this sand-plain ; 
itisa straggling, decumbent species three or four feet high; the leaves 
are linear, five inches long, indented at the edges, nearly smooth when 
full grown ; the flowers are yellow, four or five inches long, and they 
are followed by very rough cones; it grows in abundance on both sides 
of the road near the middle of the sand-plain. The flat summit of 
Mount Lesueur and other hills of Gardener’s range, produce a re- 
markable Banksia, that has, when growing, a considerable resemblance 
to the Scotch Fir; the leaves are about three inches long, very narrow, 
the edges entire and rolled back, they end in three very minute teeth ; 
the flowers bear a considerable resemblance to those of B. verticillata, 
and they are followed by similar seed-vessels. 
A small Dryandra, with linear, pinnatifid leaves, bearing its flowers 
on the old stems near the ground, grows on the ironstone gravelly hills 
to the north and west of Dundaragan. Another very curious species of 
Dryandra, with creeping stems under ground, is common in dense 
patches from one to three feet in diameter; the stems grow abont a 
foot high, they are mostly undivided ; the flowers are borne close to the — 
ground in a circle at the outside of the patches, they are large yellow 
blossoms surrounded by lanceolate bracts; the leaves of the plant are 
cuneate, ending in three obtuse teeth; the slender branches of this 
plant perform the same part as the leaves in dphragma nervosa, and 
the flowers are borne close to the ground at the ends of the creeping 
stems much in the same way. A curious Dryandra nearly allied to D. 
nivea, but readily distinguished from the many varieties of that plant, 
or rather from the many species that are nearly allied to D. nivea in 
their flowers, although differing widely in habit, some with creeping 
