HO 



Many different plants are from time to time blamed for 

 the death of stock. Proof is very simple, and it seems a 

 pity experiments are not carried out to clearly decide which 

 of our plants are injurious. 



Another genus allied to Boronia is Eriostemon, which 

 may be translated to mean Lovely Stamen, yet it must 

 not be considered to mean its stamens are more beautiful 

 than those of Boronia, for they are not. The principal 

 mark of difference is that the leaves are of simple outline 

 instead of being divided, and are arranged alternately 

 instead of in opposite pairs. The flowers also have gener- 

 ally five sepals and petals and ten stamens; otherwise they 

 are as in Boronia. We have seven Eriostemons ; the com- 

 monest are Wax Flower and Lancewood. 



Wax Flower is a pretty litle shrub, which prefers to- 

 grow almost flat 011 the ground. The leaves are small, and 

 they are covered with little oil-bearing knobs. The flowers 

 are very pretty, with five waxy white or pink spreading 

 petals. Lancewood, also called Hickory, is an erect-grow- 

 ing shrub or small tree, with flat lance-shaped leaves, 

 which are silvery-white on the \mder surface. 



Native Fuchsia does not look at all like Boronia ; from 

 a distance, and only from a distance, it looks more like a. 

 Fuchsia. When its structure is carefully examined its 

 true relationship is apparent. It belongs to the genus 

 Correa, which is an easy name, and for the sake of 

 accuracy its use should be encouraged. We have three 

 common Correas, two of which may occur in almost any 

 locality ; the third, White Correa, is confined to the sea 

 coast. The two of wide distribution are so much alike that 

 they pass for one kind in general talk, and together are 

 referred to as Fuchsia. The leaves are opposite, broad 

 and flat, or marked with blisterlike convexities. The 

 flowers are peculiar. The calyx is like a small brown cup 

 with four minute teeth. The petals, of which there are 

 four, are about an inch long, and united for the greater 

 part of their length to form a tubular corolla, which is 

 generally green or yellowish, but sometimes crimson, or 

 partly so. The eight stamens have long filaments. The 

 pistil is shaped as in Boronia. White Correa differs in the 

 petals being white, free, and spreading from the base. The 

 flowers in this genus are usually solitary in the upper leaf 

 axils, or may terminate the branches. 



Years ago people had great faith in the medicinal pro- 

 perties of plants. Virtue of some sort was supposed to 

 belong to the extracts of nearly all. Then such a family 



