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making expeditions and collecting specimens through a want of funds ; 
yet I sometimes fear this must be the case. Let me travel in what 
direction I will, I cannot expect to add more than 200 or 300 species 
to my store ; and the sale of seven or eight sets of them does not 
defray half the necessary cost of collecting. However well the natives 
of this country are naturally disposed to behave when unmolested, it 
is impossible to venture upon travelling among strange tribes without 
at least three persons, well armed, being of the party, with the neces- 
sary provisions, pack-horses, &c.; and this costs a great deal of money. 
This year I have amassed a valuable collection of seeds—Banksia and 
Dryandras alone amounting to between forty and fifty species. My 
son, a servant, and I, have lived entirely in the bush among these things 
for the last three months; and if I cannot dispose of my collections 
among British nurserymen, I hope to sell them to advantage in Paris. 
To-morrow I start for Freemantle, where Cephalotus follicularis 
grows, that I may ship two or three boxes of it on board the Shepherd, 
advertised to sail for London early next week. 
During my recent excursions, I gathered many highly interesting 
plants which were new to me. r. Brown describes only one species 
of Franklandia ; but we have at least two, and I doubt if either of 
them be his plant. The species common ‘about King George’s Sound, 
and as far north as the Beaufort river, must have been seen by many 
botanists, and overlooked for the F. fucifolia of Brown, from which it 
differs in many important points, chiefly the seeds. The flowers, too, 
are dull yellow, and the plant grows three or four feet high, with glau- 
cous leaves. Another Franklandia, from the Capel river, of which I 
sent you seeds, coincides with F. fucifolia in the seeds ; but the inflo- 
described in a former letter: it is allied to B. verticillata, having ten 
to fourteen leaves in a whorl, and is the most beautiful species of this 
country. It well deserves the name of floribunda ; for when one set of 
flowers is fully blown, the cone above it is prepared to bloom in two 
or three weeks, and a third in succession, still higher on the branch, is 
considerably advanced. I hope to send abundance of the seeds of this 
noble Banksia, and also of another very fine species, the B.’ Brown of 
Baxter, which is verticillate, though not so described by Mr. Brown ; its 
leaves are beautifully pinnate, like those of B. decurrens. But it 
