.. well preserved Insects, Amphibize, &c., and a large he 
372 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
equally common in different parts of the country; the plant 
called Botany Bay Xeranthemum in England, is found with 
yellow flowers in the Toodjey district, and white ones to the 
west of the Darling range; an annual Gnaphalium, very 
frequent in the Toodjey district, with long-pointed squarrose 
scales on its heads of flowers, varies with iron-red, orange, 
golden-yellow, straw-coloured, and white, also rose-coloured 
flowers of several shades. I found a Prostanthera, with dark 
red flowers, on the banks of the Salt River; and, in the bed of 
the same river, a curious Malvaceous plant with creeping 7 
roots; the calyx is single and the corolla adheres closely d | 
it, when in flower, appésenis attached to it by a sort 
gummy substance; the divisions of the corolla are narrow, 
and look like white stripes on the calyx ; when the seeds are 
formed, the corolla is found separate from the calyx. A 
curious grass with rush-like and very prickly leaves, makes it [rs 
no very easy matter to botanize on the banks of this inhos- - i 
pitable river ; its culms grow four or five feet high, the fruc- — . 
tification is borne in a sort of contracted panicle, the calyxis — 
of two glumes bearing five or six flowers, the flowers une 
mostly from one side of the panicle. Another remar 
grass with large calyx-glumes was growing on the banks 
the river; the glumes contain four or five seeds with curious 
wings for flying with. I send you specimens of both. —- 
grasses. 
JAMES me 
SOUTH AFRICAN. PLANTS. 
. . Dr Krauss a Prussian Naturalist, has lately arrired; in 
: London with a very extensive collection of skins of animals, 
s from the Natal country; the duplicates of the la; 
to between four and five hundred species, @ 
ale, at the price of £2 the hundred. m 
