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We have also stated our oiiinion that the cones of B. palndosa 

 as described b}' Meisner (DC. Prod, xiv, 457) are also referable 

 to a form of B. latifolia. 



Banksia paludosa, R.Br. — Robert Brown in his Prod. No 

 394, has the following description : — "5. paludosa, foliis subver- 

 ticillatis cuneato-oblongis subtruncatis basi attenuatis extra 

 medium dentato-serratis marijine subrecurvis : subtus costatis 

 reticulato-venosis, petiolis ramulisque glabris perianthiis sericeis, 

 caule fruticoso." 



In Bot. Reg. t. 697, this plant is still called B. paludosa or the 

 "Marsh Banksia." It was introduced into England by Brown 

 in 1805, who found it in the marshes of Botany Bay, where it is 

 far from abundant and may be reckoned as one of the rarer 

 species.* It is described as " an upright shrub somewhat more 

 than 3 ft. high," and the plant is more fully described than by 

 Brown. 



Meisner in DC. Prod. xiv. 457, still calls the'plant B. paludosa, 

 but Bentham [B.Fl. v. 554) makes it var. paludosa of B. integri- 

 folia, and has the following note : — "Flowers scarcely larger than 

 in B. marginata, the perianth 7 to 8 lines long, but the leaves of 

 one of the common short-leaved forms of B. integrifolia." 



The plant ma}- be redescribed as follows (from perfectly fresh 

 specimens) : — 



A dwarf, spreading, much-branched shrub, from 1 foot to 

 nearly three feet high, with glabrous branches. 



Leaves with much recurved margins, generally in rather uneven 

 whorls usually of 3 or 4, from 1^ inches to 3 inches or a little 

 longer, and from very narrow to about f inch in their broadest 

 part; not spreading, but pointing upwards at an angle of about 

 45°; very distinctly obovate or almost spathulate, somewhat 

 truncate, or obtuse, or sometimes bluntly pointed, gradually 

 narrowed into the ver}- short petiole, or sometimes almost sessile; 

 stiffly coriaceous; irregularly toothed on the upper half; the mid- 



* Tliis remark appears still to hold good. 



