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sweetish taste, with a slight flavour of Celery, the root seem 
to contain very little starch or mucilage. dide 
The tops of the ironstone hills in the Toodjey district 
produce a beautiful species of Acacia, with large oval leaves, 
which remains a long time in blossom. ‘The plant called by - 
the settlers the native Myrtle, grows in Mr Leake's Grant: it 
is an Acacia, and certainly bears some resemblance to the 
Myrtle in its foliage and habit. On the same hill where the 
Acacia grows, and where the road crosses it to Waylen’s | 
Grant, the Nut-tree produces a red-flowering Loranthus, its 
foliage so like the tree on which it grows as to be easily over- 
looked. This species is very rare. Between Waylen’s road 
and Guangan, I met with a new cream-coloured species or 
variety of Anigozanthus. à eo n 
I was accompanied by my youngest son, Johnson, who 
collects and preserves the birds and insects ofthis colony; the - 
open sandy country is bordered by a considerable forest, com- 
posed principally of two kinds of Eucalyptus, called Urac and | 
Morral by the aborigines. The Urac was in full bloom, but it 
seemed no easy matter to procure specimens, tbe trunk of the 
flowering-trees being sixty feet high, very smooth; and of a 
yellow colour. My son and I tried several plans without suc- 
cess. Atlength I thought of firing a ball across the top of the 
tree, and the first shot brought down plenty of specimens. ^ 
Morral is said by some to be the tree called Stringy-bark it 
Van Dieman's Land. I suspect it is rather a nearly all z 
species, both these Eucalypti being easily split. One of the 
most conspicuous plants on Guangan is a shrubby Eucalypm™ 
with large glaucous coriaceous foliage, and conspicuous T 
flowers, succeeded by large seed-vessels. I have observe 
white-flowered variety of the same. We were too early 1 
the season to find many plants in bloom. I gathered @ fine 
Boronia with awl-shaped leaves, and several Acacias” 
loss m; but the specimens I send you from Guangan W 
collected last year. Among them you will fir 
pe Grevillea, its large yellow spicate inflorescen 
ng nearly a foot long; the natives collect the flowers 
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