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flowers, this foliage entirely disappears, but it would seem 
that, ere this is the case, the leaves have supplied the tuberous 
roots with their superabundant nutriment, and these in their 
turn supply the flowers and seeds, which could not exist 
at the season when they make their appearance, unless 
so provided. No. 92 is supposed to be your Leucolena 
peltigera, common in the Mahogany Forests of the Swan 
River; and No. 89 a Composite plant, remarkable for its pro- 
perty of exciting sneezing, when the flowers are rubbed between 
the fingers and put near thenose. No. 65 is one of the Euca- 
lypti which I found last summer, and mentioned in a former 
letter. Nos. 70 and 71 are curious species of Calothamnus ; 
the latter, having a stem 9 inches in diameter, is the largest of 
the genus with which I am acquainted. No. 64 is a curious 
and very rare Myrtaceous plant; it grows in the form of an 
evergreen Cypress, and attains a height of nearly twenty feet ; 
on my way to King George's Sound I discovered it, but was 
unable on my return-journey to detect the habitat again. No. 
28 isa Xylomela, different from the yellow-leaved species 
described by Cunningham ; and 20 is a beautiful pinnate and 
silvery-leaved, yellow-flowered Grevillea. The Nos., from ! 
to 10, are species or varieties of Dryandra, some of which I 
expect you will find new. No 5 is particularly remarkable, 
attaining a height of 8 or 10 feet, apparently without a 
branch, and looking outside like a dense mass of foliage, but 
broader at the bottom than the top, so I suppose it must have 
ranches concealed by the leaves. I sent you these Dryan- 
dras before, most of them were gathered during the journey 
to King George's Sound. No. l, in the sandy country to the 
North; No. 4, on the Beaufort River; this latter is the same 
as I had conjectured in my journal to be the D. senecifolia 
of Baxter, but I now find that its flowers do not answer his 
description, No. 2 isa noble species, and formerly mentioned 
y me as having foliage like Banksia grandis. The leaves of 
No. 3, resemble Frazer's D. bipinnata, but its inflorescence is 
quite different. 
I feel great pleasure in looking at your British Flora, which 
