BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 343 
XIX.—BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
(Ar page 187 of this Journal, our readers will see that mention has been 
made of Mr James Drummond, formerly of the Cork Botanic Garden, 
brother of the late Mr Thomas Drummond, and now residing at Swan 
. River Colony, Australia, whence he has sent home highly interesting col- 
lections of the plants growing in the vicinity of the town of Freemantle. 
3 The same observing and meritorious Naturalist transmits the following ac- 
. tount of two excursions that he made there last year, (1839,) together with 
. observations on the vegetation that prevails in that far distant settlement. 
. Remarks such as these on the plants of newly founded colonies, are the 
more valuable, because the progress of cultivation and the importation of 
- foreign species have a well-known tendency to extirpate the native pro- 
duets of the soil ; witness St Helena, where arborescent Syngenesia and 
— Tree-Ferns only linger on the summits of the mountains, having yielded 
their places to the Scotch Fir and other European trees. Mr Drummond’s 
_ Observations show, that near the Swan River, a similar change is in pro- 
_ Bréss, in which perhaps our readers will be ready to trace an analogy to the 
more momentous consequences of civilization, as regards the animal as well 
a5 the vegetable creation.) 
Town or FREEMANTLE, 
ok Swan River Corowr, June, 1839. _ 
EL Tae sea-coast in the neighbourhood of Freemantle, is a low 
"ange of secondary limestone hills; the limestone is rather a 
Curious variety, having a good deal the appearance of petri- 
E trees, with bollows in the rocks where the trunks of the 
trees had formerly stood. There is little soil on these hills, 
: but they are thickly covered with shrubs of various sorts; a 
. beautiful holly-leaved Chorizema, with red flowers, grows near 
the signal-post on Arthur's head; a red-blossomed Grevillea, 
in foliage and habit resembling Southern-wood, and a pale - 
. 'ose-coloured species with trifid leaves and rough capsules, ; 
: are found on the same hill; a lilac-flowered Petrophila with 
 ultifid leaves, and a beautiful Leschenaultia* with the lower 
Part of its flower golden-yellow, and the upper part iróne ie 
Ted, adorn the road-side between Freemantle and the 
$ Probably L. laricina, or L. glauca, of Lindley, in Botany of the — — 
Cantonment. Among the rocks by the water-side over the - ae 
