.. rest I can send you. One species came up in consi gen 
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being a mixture of red, orange, and yellow. A pretty Orchis, 
which I cannot refer to any of Mr Brown's genera, is now in - 
blossom on the roadside; it is remarkable for producing va- 
rieties with blue, yellow and white flowers. Iam acquainted — 
with two other species of the same Genus, with blue flowers, 
varying to white; but this is the only instance I can recollect - " 
of a blue flower changing into a yellow; the yellow kind is — 
very rare to the west of the Darling Range of hills, where 
the blue is common ; but in the Toodjey district some of the 
hills produce the yellow plant in thousands, without any - 
mixture of blue; still I am satisfied they are the same spe- - 
cies. My family have paid a good deal of attention to the - 
Orchidee, and we have gathered between sixty and seventy - 
species; the few botanical books I brought out with m- 
having been soon lost by a fire, we consequently knew nothing - 
of the names of even the Genera, but every Orchis we found - 
for the first time was new to us, and were distinguished 
among the different members of the family by the finders’ 
names, such as Jane's yellow spiral-leaved, John's spotted - 
spiral-leaved, &c., &c. My youngest daughter, Euphemia, Er 
knows the Swan River Orchidee quite as well as I do mys» 
and she is able to tell any of her brothers who pick vp an - 
Orchis, whether there is any chance of its being what wt call : 
a new one or not, Some of our genera, for we found € 
cessary to make genera to help in distinguishing the different : 
species, turned out to be exactly the same with Mr Browns. - 
Our glazed Orchises were Mr Brown's genus Glossodium - 
but we named the plants from the remarkable glazed oF 
glossy appearance of the flower, and not from the part of the 
flower resembling a serpent's tongue. Two or three of our 
Orchidee are very rare, and have not been seen more than : 
once or twice, and we have no specimens of them; all the 
. 
nbers one season, in a place where clay had been dug 
with, close to our residence on the Swan River, aM 
nd by my youngest daughter; but the specimens were 
; y lost, and it has never been seen since, alt 10 
