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lamp ; the air is then displaced by water and glycerine. Place 

 them in another white saucer from the boiling tube. 



4. Place the glycerine jelly bottle up to the neck in a cup of 

 hot water, so that it may liquefy. 



5. Place one of the glass slips with the inked side downwards 

 on a sheet of note paper, and drop a little glycerine jelly in the 

 circle. Pick out a few plants from the contents of the boiling tube, 

 and arrange them in the circle with a brush of only one bristle, 

 drop on a little more glycerine jelly, and put the covering glass 

 on. Fix on a brass wire clip so as to secure the cover. Take 

 hold of the slip with a pair of tweezers, and hold over the lamp 

 until the jelly splutters out, then withdraw from the lamp, and 

 place the slide on a cold stone outside, taking care not to disturb 

 the cover. 



6. In half an hour the superabundant glycerine jelly may be 

 washed off gently with a soft toothbrush and water ; wash the 

 ink ring off; dry the slides with a cambric hankerchief, and let 

 them stand a little while to allow the moisture to evaporate. 



7. Ring the slides with brown cement. 



8. Ring the slides with asphalt or any coloured cements as a 

 finish. 



q. Label. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, WITH 



OCCASIONAL OTHER ANNOTATIONS ; 

 By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M. &Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 



(Continued.) 

 Velleya Salmoniana. 



Herbaceous, erect, except the flowers glabrous ; branches wiry 

 thin ; leaves thinly linear-filiform ; flowers solitary, axillary, con- 

 stituting leafy racemes ; peduncles capillulary, as long as the 

 flowers or somewhat longer, unprovided with bracteoles, jointed 

 with the very much shorter pedicels ; segments of the calyx 

 subulate-linear ; corolla outside beset with very short hairlets, 

 inside bearing capillulary descending scattered and ciliolating 

 setules, the lobes bearing acute forward membranous appendages ; 

 style beset with spreading hairlets ; stigma-cover at the orifice 

 glabrous ; fruit small, ovate-globular, by nearly one-half or about 

 one-third longer than the calyx-segments, outside imperfectly 

 pubescent ; dissepiment rudimentary ; seeds 6 or less ripening, 

 pale-brownish, prominently margined and surrounded by a rather 

 broadish membrane. 



Near the Gascoyne-River ; Lady Margaret Forrest. 



Root and basal leaves unknown. Lower leaves to i^ inches 

 long, upper gradually lessened to about half an inch length. 

 United peduncle and pedicel Y^-iy^ inch long. Calyx slightly 

 beset with hairlets, about ]/% inch long, except at the very base 

 quite free. Corolla about half an inch long, the appendages of 



