_ “half-way between the Helena and the Canning rivers; the 
348 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Loranthi inhabiting the Casuarina, and much resembling the 
branches of that plant, are thus easily overlooked; while the - 
species found on the Gum-trees, a fine red-flowering one with 
large lanceolate leaves, is generally passed over as a diseased 
branch of the Gum-tree, the leaves of the Loranthus being | 
naturally of a yellowish-green colour. On the Peninsula 
Farm, the Xanthorrhea, called by the settlers the under-ground — 
blackboy, first makes its appearance. It resembles when grow- - 
ing a large tuft of yellow Asphodel, and bears several flower- - 
stalks eight or ten feet high: it is difficult to clear the land - 
intended for wheat or other crops of this plant, and a pity it 
is that it should be destroyed, experience proving it to be one - 
of our most valuable sorts of food for stock of all kinds; in.the — 
very dry weather, when the grass is burned up or destroyed - 
by bush-fires, sheep and cattle of every description living — 
principally on the tops of the different sorts of Xanthorrhea. 
From the Swan River, opposite the Peninsula Farm, to the 
foot of the Darling range of hills, a distance of about ten miles | 
is an undulating country, the surface principally of siliceous : 
sand, in some places producing what we here denominate - 
Mahogany, in others what the settlers call stunted Banksia, that — 
is B. Menziesii and Frazerii. The fine Anigozanthus latifolia — 
of Frazer, our large green and crimson species, is common all 
the way from Freemantle; but the green swamp Anigozanthus* 
and the dwarf orange, both beautiful, are principally confined — 
to the south of the Swan River. Of the pretty genus Thy- 
sanotus, called Fringe-flower or lace-plant by us, I have gather- 
_ ed about twenty species between the Swan and the top of the 
.. first range of hills. Of Patersonia, a fine genus belonging to 
. Tridee, | have detected ten species; one of these, a fine yellow- - 
. flowered plant, grows on the top of the Darling range, about — 
beautiful Pimeleat with crimson bracteas of which I send home 
imei ; is found at the same place. — | Po et 
pproach the foot of the hill, the country becomes 
ill et 6.B. + P. spectabilis? Lindl. |. e, p. 4l 
