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4 fine contrast with the pink; yellow, and white Everlasting- 
flowers; this plant would be likely to answer in the open air, 
as anannual,in England. The splendid celestial-blue Leschen- 
aultia is now in high beauty. Another species with bright 
. Searlet flowers is just coming into blossom on the banks of the 
Salt River, and near Mr Hall’s residence on the Avon; this 
. may be the L. formosa of the Botanical Magazine; it grows 
about two feet high, with yellowish-green leaves, and is very 
distinct from a species called by me Leschenaultia sanguinea, 
with blood-red flowers, found on a swampy plain, called 
Darga, by the natives, at the head of the Helena River. The 
L. sanguinea is only five or six inches high, with glaucous 
foliage; the tube of the corolla is shorter and not so downy, 
the divisions of it broader and fuller, and it flowers two 
months earlier than the species I suppose to be L. formosa. 
— Ihave been up the Avon about forty miles from the Toodjey, 
.. to Mount Bakewell, the highest (being about a thousand feet 
_ above the level of the ocean) and most conspicuous hill in the 
. Vicinity of York; the base line for surveying the York dis- 
trict passes over the top of Mount Bakewell. I met with a 
blue-flowering Orobanche, growing among stones near the 
Summit of the hill; another I found in 1837 in seed, or it may - 
be the same species, on sand-hills near the coast. A curious 
plant belonging to Polygalez, and called by settlers the Swan- - 
River Broom, and which I suppose to be a species of Come- 
Sperma, I have called (from the use made of it) the Comesperma 
scoparia. This was in flower on the only spot where it has as 
Yet been seen, and where it will, judging from appearances, 
soon be destroyed; it grows on a low sand-hill, on what was 
and the river : it affords an excellent ready-made broom, the 
root forming the handle; full-grown specimens are about 
two feet in diameter, growing in dense upright bushes about 
two feet high; green branches are thrown up every year to — | 
~ outside of the plants, which, when they exceed two feet — 
greatest demand for brooms measure about nine inchis in 
Fok I.—No, M. 3B 
originally Mr Edjet's grant, between Mr Edjet’s first residence __ 
in diameter, begin to decay at the heart.. The plants in 
