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Yellow Bottlebrush is a rigid shrub found in wet places. 

 The leaves are short, broad, and arranged in opposite pairs, 

 so that each pair is placed at right angles to those above 

 and below it. The flowers are always yellow. Purple 

 Bottlebrush is a shrub of damp heathy places. The flowers 

 may be either purplish or yellow. The leaves are less 

 broad, and alternately arranged. Dwarf Bottlebrush is 

 a pretty little shrub of heathy country. The small flowers 

 are purplish, the leaves only about one line long, and 

 arranged in opposite pairs. Swamp Bottlebrush also 

 known as Swamp Teatree, only occurs in the north. It 

 grows into a small tree, has yellow flowers, and small 

 linear alternate leaves. Our only Callistemon is a shrub of 

 the hills. It bears copious yellow flowers, and flat leaves 

 fully an inch long. 



We have only two or three Bseckias, and they have no 

 popular names. May not the botanical one be popularised ? 

 Bceckia is just as easy and pretty as any other is likely 

 to be, and it certainly will not lead to confusion. The 

 common one is a pretty little wiry shrub, that raises itself 

 amongst undergrowth in heaths. The leaves are narrow, 

 and about a quarter of an inch long. The flowers are on 

 rather long stalks, but are shaped otherwise very much 

 as they are in Teatree, only the stamens do not exceed 

 ten, and there are only one or two seeds in each cell of 

 the capsule. The petals are pinkish -white. 



Native Broom is unfortunately named, as it is not a 

 relation to, nor is it a bit like, the true Broom. It is a 

 small shrub of heathy land. The flower is not like, the 

 Myrtles we have examined, and at once distinguish it. The 

 floral tube is long and slender ; it is just like a stalk, 

 but it is intimately blended with a contained ovary, which 

 bears but one ovule. Above the ovary it is continued in a 

 slender stalk-like condition for some distance, when it 

 suddenly produces five diverging sepals. These are con- 

 nected together at the base by a thin membrane, but the 

 points are elongated into spreading slender bristles. The 

 petals are five, and stamens many, but neither are 

 conspicuous. 



The Myrtles are chiefly plants of warm, sunny places. 

 Though a few of them can withstand the intense cold of a 

 high altitude, none of them extend to a high altitude, 

 They are well adapted to dry conditions. The leaf surface 

 is small ; its skin is thick, and covered by an impervious 

 cuticle often coated with wax. This condition is eminently 

 suited to reduce evaporation. 



