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curred in sufficient abundance to enable me to supply several sub- 
scribers. This plant has many points in common with Verticordia 
grandiflora ; the flowers are often an inch across, with yellowish-green 
ealyces and vermilion petals, which soon shrivel up and disappear; its 
„anthers, twenty in number and of unequal lengths, are united by a 
beautiful dark purple membrane. I also found a charming little plant, 
allied to Goodenovia, about 9 inches high and bearing blood-red in- 
florescence ; and a splendid rush-like Grass, perhaps a Poa. The latter 
grows 3—4 feet high, on the muddy banks of the Arrowsmith River ; 
it was in flower, and had ripe seeds on it too. 
As soon as I can get together 250 species, which witlf*what I have 
found before will make 2000, I shall send them home, accompanied 
with all the seeds I can procure. Among the latter are those of a re- 
markably pretty Didiscus, allied to D. ceruleus, which grows a foot 
high. I hope to add some bulbs, but these are rather scarce; and 
our opportunities of sending are still fewer. 
[A month later Mr. Drummond writes] At last I have the satisfac- 
tion of despatching a box on board the ship Halifax, which is to sail 
from Freemantle, and to touch at the Isle of France on the way to 
England. It contains bulbs of several kinds of Drosera and Hemado- 
rum, also of the bulbous-rooted umbelliferous plant called Canna by 
the natives : seeds of the Lawrencella lanceolata, both rose-flowered and. 
white, our elegant yellow capitate Everlasting-flower, and the fine annual 
Brunonia. There are dried specimens of more than 200 species, col- 
lected during my late journey, for your herbarium, and some letters 
which describe the more remarkable plants. I think you will consider 
two beautiful and new Leguminosae, a scarlet-flowered Myrtacea, and 
the Goodenovia mentioned in my last, as among the best things. 
This country abounds in species of Dodder and Chara, apparently 
-quite peculiar to it; but a travelling botanist cannot investigate these 
difficult genera so closely as is necessary to authorize his founding new 
species of them ; and I am always reluctant to increase the number of 
species to my subscribers unless on ample grounds. I feel sure this 
colony contains twice as many kinds of plants as I have as yet dis- 
covered. In Dr. Lindley's ‘ Observations on Swan River Botany,’ he 
mentions that Dryandras abound; but though I was always on the 
look-out for this genus and Banksias, I spent seven years at Swan River 
before finding seven Dryandras. Now Y have gathered upwards of 
