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lieve. On this bank there vvas an Orobanche, very like Orobanche minor of England. 

 * * The salt marsh vvas covered with two species of Salicomia, one of which was 

 shrubby ; interspersed among these were two species of Frankenia, one of which was 

 bushy, about a foot high, and besprinkled with rosy, pink blossoms, the size of a sil- 

 ver penny. The creek was margined with mangrove, Avicennia tomentosa." — p. 510. 

 " A white-flowered Morna, a downy, drooping-flowered Pimelea, a broad and a 

 narrow-leaved Xanthorrhoea, and several other striking plants, were growing in the 

 forest on the red sandstone. On the argillaceous hills, there was a shrub belonging 

 to the GentiansE, with leaves resembling those of the greater periwinkle, and a Poma- 

 derris, with pale leaves next to the heads of flowers. Todea africana, Grammitis ru- 

 toefolius, and some other ferns, were also here. Upon the limestone hills were a broad- 

 leaved Goodenia, an Orobanche, and Lobelia gibbosa : this last is a singular annual, 

 flowering after its leaves have faded. A considerable number of curious insects were 

 feeding in a thicket on the blossoms of a Leptospermum." — p. 520. 



Near Albany, in King George's Sound, several remarkable plants 

 attracted our traveller's attention. 



" Among these may be enumerated Kingia australis, which resembles a grass-tree, 

 of about eight feet high, but difi'ers in its flower-stems and blossoms ; Sollya hetero- 

 phylla, which produces elegant blue flowers, on a privet-like, half-climbing bush ; 

 Anthocercis viscida, which fonns a large, bushy plant, with striking, white flowers, 

 and grows close upon the beach ; and Cephalodea foUicularis, which has small, whitish 

 flowers, on a stalk a foot and a half high, and which produces pitcher-like vessels 

 among its leaves, at the base of the flower-stem : the pitchers have lids, are an inch 

 deep, contain water, and often drowned insects, and are of very singular structure." 

 p. 627. 



On the route to Freeman tie, on New Year's Day, 1838, the Nuyt- 

 sia floribunda is described as attaining a height of forty feet, and a 

 circumference of six feet ; its top was crowned with a mass of golden, 

 orange or yellow flowers : other beautiful flowers were in blossom, a 

 yellow Calothrix, a yellow and red and a sky-blue Leschenaultia, a 

 crimson linear-leaved Callistemon, a scarlet Melaleuca, a crimson Calo- 

 thamnus, and several species of Jacksonia. 



And here we must take our leave of ibis highly interesting volume. 

 Our quotations have been more copious, and our notice has extended 

 to a greater length than we originally intended, but we trust that our 

 readers will not object to it on these accounts, since we have presented 

 them with a more complete sketch of the vegetation of these regions 

 than has ever been given in so condensed a form. With regard to 

 the localities, we fear there may be some difficulty in following them 

 without a map, since many of the names are but of yesterday, and 

 none of them can lay claim to much antiquity. In the present day, 

 however, maps of these colonies are daily becoming more numerous 

 and more correct, and these will furnish the means of tracing our 

 traveller ihvonghout his arduous and philanthropic pilgrimage. We 



