664 



Hypnum slellatum. Bogs under Bulling Hypnum filicinum. Bogs, Baxter. 



ton green, Baxter. fiuitam. Shotover hill, Baxter. 



loreum. Shotover hill, Baxter ; aduncum. Bogs, Shotover hill, 



Stokenchurch woods, abundant. Dr. BuUington green, Baxter. 



Ayres. cupressiforme. Woods &c.,com- 



triquetrum. Heaths &c., com- mon ; Stokenchurch woods. Dr. 



mon. 



Ayres. 



— brevirostre. Bagleywood,i5aa;i«-. y. tenue, E. B. 



— squarrosum. Shotover hill. Bag- Woods &c., Baxter. 



ley wood, Baxter ; Stokenchurch hill, rmllmcum. Woods &c. ; Sto- 



Dr. Ayres. kenchurch woods, Dr. Ayres. 



(To be continued.) 



Art. CLVIII. — Notice of ' A Visit to the Australian Colonies. By 

 James Backhouse.' London: Hamilton, Adams & Co. 1843. 



(Continued from p. 608). 



Wellington Valley appears to be the most inland point reached 

 by our observant traveller. At the end of September 1835 he set out 

 on his return to Sydney, which place he reached on the 30th of the 

 following month. But few botanical observations appear to have been 

 made by the way : we extract the following. 



" In the lower altitudes of the mountains the advance of spring was more striking. 

 Telopea speciosissima, forming low bushes, with heads of flowers as large as small pae- 

 onies, was in full blossom. The Blue-Mountain parrot, partly blue, and with a breast 

 of crimson, as brilliant as the flowers, was drinking nectar out of the blossoms of this 

 splendid shrub ; and a brown honey-eater was darting its tongue, like a slender pencil 

 of hair, into the elegant pink flowers of Grevillea linearis. Gompholobium grandiflo- 

 rum, a large, yellow, pea-flowered shrub, of great beauty, and several species of Platy- 

 lobium, Daviesia, Boronia and Eriostemon, enlivened the solitude and beguiled the 

 walk, of thirty-one miles, through this dreary forest, which we accomplished in ten 

 hours."~p. 336. 



After a visit of some months to Van Diemen's Land, J. Backhouse 

 returned to Sydney on the 22nd of February, 1836; and in company 

 with Mr. MacLeay and other gentlemen, visited a collection of vines, 

 amounting to three hundred varieties, among which, under French 

 names, are most of those cultivated for the table in England. He 

 speaks of the Sydney botanic garden as a fine institution, and furnish- 

 ed with a good collection of native and foreign plants. Remaining 

 but a short time at Sydney, he sailed in the Isabella for Moreton Bay, 

 between six and seven degrees further north, that is, in latitude about 

 27° 20' S. On the 29th of March, while walking a few miles down 



