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the plant to be kept in water. Limnocharis, from Limon, mud, and charis, 

 grace, or ornament. Its beautiful flowers adorn moist muddy places. 



2. Oxylnhium eUiplicum, Elliptic leaved, Decandria Monogynia. Legu- 

 minosa?. It appears from the Hortus Kewensis, that this plant was introduced 

 from Van Diemeu's Land, by Mr. Brown, in 1805, but it seems afterwards 

 lost. Seeds, however, were received at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden from 

 Van Diemen's Land, through W. Henderson, Esq. in February, 1829, 

 marked Prussian shrub. The plant has been treated in the Greenhouse in 

 the usual way of New Holland shrubs, aud in April last, whdii above three 

 feet high, it flowered fur the first time, every subdivision (S its numerous 

 branches bearing upon its apex a crowded bunch of flowers. They are of a fine 

 yellow colour, and iu terminal capitate spikes. The profusion of flowers 

 with which it is covered, and the continued succession of these duriug a long 

 while, reudere it a very desirable species for cultivation. Graham. Culture : 

 increased by cuttings; soil, sandy peat. Oxylobium from Oxys, sharp ; lobos, 

 pod ; pointed pods. 



3. Trillium erectum, var. viridiflorum ; upright stalked ; pale green flow- 

 ered, variet)'. Hexandria Trigyuia, Smilacea;. Plants of this variety were 

 received at the Glasgow Dotanic Garden from Canada, sent by Mr. Cleg- 

 horn, aud they flowered under a frame iu the month of April, 1833. Cul- 

 ture: increased by division of root; soil, sandy peat. Trillium, from Tilix, 

 tissue of three threads ; triple leaved calyx. 



4. Lcucopogon Kichci. Riche's Leucopogon. (Styphelia parviflora, An- 

 drew's Repository, t. 287, mala ; Leucopogon parviflorus, Lindley, iu Bot. 

 Register, t. 1.5C0.) See page 14 of this work for description, &c. 



" We gather from M. Labili.akdiere, (the Botanist of the expedition,) 

 that on the morninjr of the 16th of December, 1792, a boat having been sent 

 from L'Espcrance (o the main shore, for the purposes of Astronomical obser- 

 vation. Citizen RiciiE (attached as Naturalist to that vessel) accompanied the 

 party. 



"Quitting the beach on which he had landed, (some miles westward of 

 Cape le Grand, in long. 121" E.) and with the design of returning early in 

 the afternoon to the boat, ' that Naturalist,' says Labillardiere, ' became 

 enraptured with the riches and novelty of all the productions of that region, 

 which no observer had hitherto visited,' and, quickly losing his nay, he wan- 

 dered to some distance inland, over a desert country, occasionally presenting 

 plains of calcareous sand ; nor was he able to find his way back to the lauding 

 place until the third day ! so that the distress which his absence had occasioned 

 on board the ships was extreme. A boat was despatched on the second day 

 from each vessel in quest of the lost Naturalist, and the admiral ordered guns 

 to be fired every half hour, to enable M. Riche, if still alive, to direct his steps 

 with the greater certainty towards the anchoring place : M. Labillardiere 

 himself was of the party. 



" The parties traced his course over the sterile waste he had traversed, to 

 the edge of a large lake, which they concluded had a communication with the 

 sea, as its waters were salt. The print of his shoes, obs.'rved on the margin 

 of this considerable water, furnished encouragerqent to proceed in their search, 

 but the marks of naked feet which appeared near his, gav<> grounds for 

 apprehending that he had been dragged by the savages into the interior coun- 

 try. Moreover, one of his pistols aud his handkerchief were found on the 

 sands; and these strcngthcd in their minds, their apprehension of his fate. 

 Further on, the little smoke that arose from a deserted fire directed their 

 steps to the spot, and near it they found bits of paper on which they recog- 

 nised the hand-writing of the unfortunate man. Around them, the dismal 

 waste extended far and wide, but no further trace of M. Riche was to be 

 found; when as they were returning towards the landing place, lamenting the 

 fate of their unfortunate messmate, and had nearly reached the shore in a 

 hopeless state of niiud, they beheld one of the boatmen running to meet them, 

 with the plciusing intelligence that KtciiE was still alive, and that he had just 

 arrived at the landing place, extenuated with liungcr and fatigue, having 



