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two varieties with brown and with green flowers striped with 
white. This genus has a leafy stem with several flowers, the 
stigma moves like a hinge, but only in a slight degree. At 
the time the flowers are in perfection, the heart-shaped lower 
lip (which I call the stigma) lies up against the anthers, by 
Which it entirely closes the mouth of the helmet-shaped 
corolla; if the stigma is carefully brought down, I have 
observed it to shut again several times. A pretty red-flower- 
ing plant belonging to Epacridee, and the beautiful red and 
yellow Leschenaultia, which seems to be always in blossom, 
with Banksia Menziesii, are now in flower. Many kinds 
of Daviesia and Acacia are at this time in great beauty, also 
aspecies of Hovea. The Cyperacee must, I think, be an exten- 
sive Order at Swan River; I have already got about thirty 
species of the Genus Lepidosperma. A pretty red-flowering 
Species of Utricularia now in flower, adorns the sandy land 
ear the foot of the hills: it is only about an inch high, and 
the flowers are nearly as long as the footstalk or scape. I 
Went with our cart across the hills by the Toodjey road, as 
far as Goolongine, a native well about thirty-five miles from 
Guildford. ‘The blue Kennedya, which I have already men- 
tioned, (p. 346), disappears altogether as we approach the 
ills; but its place is well supplied with a large downy tri- 
foliate species, producing large clusters of scarlet flowers. 
In the Swan River district, this plant is rather of an upright 
habit, and not much of a climber; but I do not know how 
it differs specifically from the many-flowered red Kennedya, 
which grows at Augusta and King George's Sound; that plant 
climbs and creeps extensively, spreading often on the ground; 
the leaves are smaller, thinner and smoother, the seeds 
much less, and the seed-vessels smoother. I have lately met 
with the King George's Sound plant near the half-way 
house on the York road. Baron Hugel’s K. arenaria grows 
plentifully all over the great plain of Quartania, that is be- - 
tween the sea-coast and the foot of the Darling range; but 
"What I have always considered the same species, is seen in 
abundance all over the York country, answering well to the | T 
