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BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Extracts from various Letters from Mr. Jaugs DRUMMOND, relating to 
the BOTANY of Swan River. 
Hawthornden. 
Being obliged to return, for the purpose of recruiting our stock of 
flour and other necessary articles, I write you a few lines, wishing to 
give some particulars of the journey. For about seventy-five miles 
from the Moore River, we proceeded nearly due north over a rich 
grassy country, which exhibited little novelty, but was gay with the 
flowers of my Lawrencella lanceolata, one of the loveliest of plants. Its 
large seeds afforded food to the Euphonia splendens of Gould, which I 
found breeding in the district. On the summit of a low bushy hill we 
discovered a charming Leguminous shrub, 3 or 4 feet high, and bearing 
brilliant scarlet flowers, nearly 2 inches long, varying to yellow, and 
which resemble those of a Templetonia more than any Australian genus 
I know. At present I have called it 7. regina, for it is truly the 
queen of Leguminose. Its seed-vessels are like those of Jacksonia. 
Some twenty miles more eastward, we found a singular Leguminous 
plant, which may be said to be a shrub without leaf or stem; for the 
flowers, which spring from the crown of the root, grow there in dense 
fasciculated masses, and only reach the surface of the ground. In full- 
sized specimens these close tufts of blood-red blossoms are sometimes 
more than a foot in diameter. If this plant can be raised in pots, it 
will have a most singular appearance, for all that is seen above the 
mass of bloom will be a few branched, thorny processes, which doubt- 
less perform the functions of leaves. The pools of water, in the grassy 
. eountry, exhibit two species of Lemna, apparently identical with two 
that are found in Britain, and two kinds of monccious Valisneria. 
The flats of the Swan River, where the water is salt for six months of 
the year, and subject to great variations of depth, present another 
species, with spiral footstalks. 
"There are some extraordinary natural barrows in this district. I 
have noticed them as far north as the Beaufort River, and as far south 
as I have visited these regions, but I can give no guess as to the cause 
of their formation. They occur of various shapes and sizes, from a few 
yards to several acres in extent, and may be seen alike in the stiff clay 
