368 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
some resemblance to a single cluster of the inflorescence 
of Briza media, the flowers resemble those of a grass, they 
are monandrous and have each a single seed; it would per- 
haps come into Jussieu's Natural Order Cyperacee. I have. 
met with one or two species of Hippuris at Swan River, also _ 
a Callitriche, I believe the common European kind, but Mr - 
Brown has not noticed either of them in his work. I have 
been to Guangan to the habitat of the paper-bark tree I 
mentioned before, but it is not yet in blossom. A species of - 
Comesperma, having greenish-yellow and purple sweet-scented ; 
flowers and stout woody stems, grows with it, and forms 
the strongest creeper I have met at Swan River. My 
youngest son, who is very fond of flowers, was much pleased. : 
with a pretty Pelargonium he saw here for the first time; 1t 
has long tuberous roots, which lie about three inches under 
the surface, small heart-shaped leaves growing close to the : 
ground, and a flower-stalk about three inches high with large | 
(for an Australian. Geranium) white flowers, striated with 1 
red; the plant is sweet-scented. We have three Erodiums, - 
one with white, one with purple, and one with rose-coloured 
flowers, and very strong smelling leaves; one Geranium, like 
G. molle, with a perennial root, shaped like the carrot which 
the natives eat, and another rose-coloured Pelargonium 
which I suppose may be the P, Australe, these form our whole 
list of Geraniacee yet met with. The Mushk-scented Erodium is 
naturalized on the Peninsula farm. We detected a curious 
plant, with the habit of Thymelee, having snow-white downy 
calyces resembling a Pimelea, but the divisions of the corolla 
are not so deeply cleft, and they do not expand so much as 
they do in this genus or Daphne, it grows about a foot high with, 
hoary leaves, the flowers are several together, closely envelop- 
. ed in down, with only the tubes of the corolla rising ove! the 
downy mass. The Natural Order Goodenovie produces 
of the finest plants at Swan River; an annual reset 
Scabious, belonging to it, perhaps Sir J. E. Smi! 
t sericea, with sky-blue flowers, is now in full b da 
