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but having at last succeeded in crushing the hard outside, 

 it is impossible to help making a wry face, for the inside, 

 which is nothing but " cottony or spungy pulp, would taste 

 of nothing if it were not for a dash of turpentine." This 

 plant, which is called the Billardiera, is a beautiful twi- 

 ning evergreen, with small dark green leaves and clusters 

 of small greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, of a regular 

 shape, and the stamens alternate with the petals : it belongs 

 to a tribe called the Pittospomm tribe, and though not a 

 Vine, it is really near akin to it. So much for the nauseous 

 " grapes growing on bindweed." 



We next look out very carefully for something like a 

 Honeysuckle, but in vain ; till at last the so-called Honey- 

 suckle-tree is pointed out to us, which proves after all to 

 be one of a genus of the Protea tribe, called Banfoia. The 

 blossoms of the Banksias are not at all like Honeysuckles 

 (except perhaps a very little in one species) ; but in this 

 species (Banfoia latifolia) the tubular blossoms form a kind 

 of cone, " much the size and shape of a large English teazel," 

 and are of a greenish-yellow ; the general form of the tree, 

 which grows to the height of about thirty feet, " may be pretty 

 well represented by a grenadier's cap set on a stick. The fo- 

 liage is thick and solid-looking, the trees often forming fine 



