358 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
description of K, prostrata. The whole plant is only about 
half the size, and the seed-vessels smoother ; I send you the - 
two sorts so that you may compare them. Four kinds of 
Hakea, belonging to Mr Brown's second division (**folia 
plura filiformia"), are now in flower; and our beautiful crim- 
son species, together with several others belonging to his ; 
third division, are also in bloom. A beautiful green-leaved 
Daviesia grows all the way from the sea-coast to the level of 
the ironstone gravel formation on the top of the hills; but- 
there the green-leaved variety disappears, and a very glaucous - 
species or variety takes its place. The latter plant grows 
stronger, and has harder foliage, but the two are so alike in- 
every other respect, that I think they can scarcely be distinct. 
We saw nothing but the glaucous-leaved plant for six or seven 
miles, when on descending from the first range of hills, we 
found the green one for several miles about the level where - 
we left it. Again the glaucous plant occurred on the top of 2 
all the hills where the ironstone gravel appears to have been: | 
undisturbed by the waters of the ocean, while the green species — 
was found no further to the east than the last named habitat. — 
A large Eucalyptus, with a very rough bark, generally charred 
on the outside, from which it has got the name of black bark by 
the settlers, grows plentifully about the Warrilow, our half- 
way house that is to be on the new Toodjey road; the leaves 
and flowers are something intermediate between the Red- 
Gum and Mahogany. I stopped for a day behind the a 
at Goolongine, to examine some ironstone hills, which I knew 
to produce several fine plants. The largest and one 0° 
the finest species of Petrophila I have met with, inhabits the 
top of a hill about a mile east from the well, it varies with 
linear entire leaves, and leaves deeply trifid with linear 
_ divisions; the flowers are a golden yellow. I measured one 
.. small tree twenty feet in height, with a clear stem four feet 
. high and six inches in diameter. I send you specimens CO 
st year, the plant is not yet in flower. A fine long- 
