the Australian Hone Caves. S71 



lay above, having deeply embedded in it several bones apparently 

 human ; this rock indicating an antiquity almost as high as the 

 limestone rock itself, for the breccia is so combined in parts, 

 that its removal would occasion the rocks to collapse, so* as ma- 

 terially to alter the external surface and form of the hills. 



It is proper to add, that some fragments of bones have been 

 found by digging in the loose earth of most of the caves, but 

 from their imperfect state, and the vicinity of the breccia out- 

 side, it is difficult to determine whether they might not have 

 originally belonged to it or not.J^n«ru v rfz; 



It appears from the description by Major Imrie, of the red 

 ochreous cement containing bones which occurs at Gibraltar, 

 and along the northern shores of the Mediterranean, that this 

 breccia is of the same kind both in situ and character, and that 

 its antiquity is at least equal to, if not much higher, than the 

 bones found under stalagmite in caves, in different parts of 

 Europe. 



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Description of several New or Rare Plants which have lately 

 I, Hi Jiowered in the neighbourJiood of Edinburgh , and chiejly in 

 the Royal Botanic Garden. By Dr Guaham, Professor 

 iud <?f /^otany in the University of Edinburgh. 



^^'*'''"'y';-"^ \{ith March 1831. 



Banksia littoralis. 



"*^'''-' B. littoralis ; foliis elongato-linearibus, spinuloso-dentatia, hasi ftttenua< 

 tis, subtus aveniis ; calydbus deciduis ; folliculLs cumpressis bracteis> 

 que strobuU aj)ice tomentosis ; caule arboreo, ramulis tomentosis. — 

 BroxcTu 

 Banksia littoralig, Br. in Linn. Soc. Trans. 10. 904. ?— W. Prodr. FL 

 Nov. Hull. 3J)2. t—Hfem. et Schttltes, 3. 438 ?—Sprengel^ Sjs.t. Veget. 

 -•iW' 1. 485. ? excl. syn — Bot. Reg. ISfiS. 



n I)esc RiPTiOK — Shrui ercct. Branches ascending, purple, villous. Leaves 

 scattered, pubescent when young, naked and dark green above when old, 

 densely covered with snowy tomentum below, on short erect petioles, 

 linear, truncated, spinuloso-serrate, avenous, slightly revulut« in the 

 edges. Amentum (4 inches long, 3 inches broad to the extremity of the 

 styles) terminaU uf^n a short leafy peduncle, the branches riMng ftr 

 above it from a whorl at its base. Flotccrs in pairs, forming doubly 19. 

 ther distant lines along the rachLs, with whicn, when fulU- expand^ 

 they form nearly right angles, expanding from above downwardt. Brnc. 

 tecB tomentous, green where exposed, yellow wliere included, eiiiifsr so. 

 litary, rhomboid, subacute, with tlu'aiux turjicl up, when' tiiey are 

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