S6 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
B. arvensis has the largest peduncles, and the smallest glumes, 
(pale) the latter resembling those of B. commutatus, in at- 
quiring a purple tinge, but differing in the prominent ribs 
or nerves on each side. 
Specimens of the plants here noticed may be seen in the ` 
Herbarium of the Botanical Society of London. 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Extracts from a letter from Mr. James DRUMMOND. 
(The following letter is alluded to, as not having duly wë | 
rived, in a note, vol. IV. p. 84, of the former Series of this 
work, or Journal of Botany, for J uly, 1841. 
King George’s Sound, Oct. 15th, 1840. 
I left a letter with a friend at the Swan River, to be co 
veyed to you if opportunity should offer, in which I mer - 
tioned that I was setting out on a botanical excursion, H ` 
the direction of King George's Sound, which place I reached ` 
a few days ago. During my journey across the country, * 
met with what I suppose to be new plants in considerable 
numbers. Ihad sent you, by the * Shepherd," one hundre : 
and thirty species of Proteacee, all from the Swan-Rivë 
District ; and these, together with a few of which I had not I 
any specimens then ready, and some others, found subst 
quently, bring up our number of these plants, indigenous “i 
Swan River, to about one hundred and fifty. Seventy addi 
tional species of this Order have since rewarded a | 
researches, and I expect many more ere I return home, 85". 
shall pursue a different route from that by which I came 
hither.* 
* On the 6th December, nearly two months later, Mr. Drummond 93? ; 
nounced the number of his Profeacez to exceed two hundred and forty: 
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