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brushwood of common plants, bound together with Cassytha 

 pubescens, we at length reached the summit of the ridge, 

 where I detected an undescribed genus of RutacetB, with a 

 coloured plumose fimbriated calyx, being a second species of 

 a genus gathered last year on the north-west coast, (Antho- 

 derris); also Leucopogon alternifolius, and L. cucullatus, 

 Uakea undulata, and II. trifurcata, the latter a large com- 

 pact shrub, difficult to detect in fruit, owing to the similarity 

 of its capsules to one form of its leaves. A. Dodoncea, with re- 

 markably acute alae to the fruit, supplied me with good 

 seeds. With a view of avoiding the natives, whom we per- 

 ceived strolling between their general encampment and the 

 vessel, we kept the leading ridge of the hills, from which we 

 had a fine view of the distant country west of Oyster har- 

 bour. By a circuitous route back, we at length arrived at an 

 elevated spongy bog, tiie drainings of which having collected 

 between the shoulders of the higher land, and formed a purl- 

 ing rill, I was desirous of tracing it to its exit on the beach, 

 with a view of making some discovery likely to be useful to 

 our commander in completing his stock of fresh water. In 

 this bog I found the curious C ephalotus follicidaris, a pitcher 

 plant of very weak young growth, and without fructification.' 



During the remainder of their stay at King George's 

 Sound, Mr Cunningham landed daily, and made great ac- 

 cessions to his collection of specimens and seeds. They 

 sailed from King George's Sound on the 8th of January, 1S22, 

 and recommenced their survey at Bathurst Island, where 

 they arrived on the 13th. Mr Cunninfrham remarks, that 

 ** It is surprising that an island at so short a distance from the 

 south-west coast should bear so small a feature of the charac- 

 teristic vegetation of King George's Sound, as not to furnish 

 a single plant of the several genera o^ Proteacae or Acaciie, 

 and but a solitary plant of Legioninosce, Templetonia re- 

 tusa." On the 21st, they anchored off Dirk Hartog's island, 

 of whose sterility Mr Cunningham says—" Perhaps no part 



* Vide King's Siirvny of Australia, v. II. p. 154. 



