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coronillcpfolia" S. pTiacoides is a smaller plant, with purple 

 flowers, and occurs near Bathurst, as well as farther in the 

 interior. 



The composite plants of the collection, though not distin- 

 guished by any peculiar beauty are numerous. Many species 

 are of a dry and course texture, and resemble what are popu- 

 larly termed "everlasting flowers." It might be easily imagined 

 that such plants can stand a great amount of heat,;and that they 

 can exist long after the grasses have perished, ' In a former 

 collection from a friend residing on the Darling I received speci- 

 mens of Helipterum polygalifolium^H. floribundum, Senecio Cun- 

 ninghami, S. Gregorii, and Myriocephalus Stuartii, but Mrs. Forde 

 has added many to the list, some of which, although found in 

 other parts of Australia, were not previously noticed on the 

 Darling. I believe the following a tolerably correct list of these 

 plants : Helipterum Stuartianum, H. corymbiflorum, HelicJirysum 

 bracteatum, H. apiculatum, Craspedia RicJiea, C. pleiocephala, 

 Minuaria leptophylla, Myriogyne minuta, Epaltes australis, Gna- 

 phalium indutum, Helipterum hyalospermum, Angiantlius pusillus, 

 Helipterum moschatum, Calotis cuneifolia, C. scapigera, Ixiolasna 

 tomentosa, Vittadinia scabra, Senecio Cunninghami, Rutidosis lieli- 

 cJirysoides, Olearia pimeleoides, 3Ii/riocepJtalus ^Stuartii. Of these 

 twenty-one composites, only six occur on this side of the Blue 

 Mountains three of which are of a bright yellow colour, one is 

 somewhat similar to plants of the daisy kind, and two, although 

 they have inconspicuous flowers, are remarkable for the pungent 

 quality of their leaves when bruised. Only five in the list appear 

 amongst the composites in " Mitchell's Tropical Australia," and 

 two (Polycalymma and Myriogyne) are elegantly figured in Dr. F. 

 Mueller's lithograms. I find also that Gregory, when in search 

 of Dr. Leichhardt and his party along and " near Cooper's 

 Eiver and its tributaries in Sub-central Australia" (1S58), col- 

 lected specimens of Blonencyanthes gnapJialioides and Senecio 

 Gregorii, and that in the same year Mr. Babbage, in his expedi- 

 tion into the North-western interior of South Australia, noticed 

 Myriogyne Cunninghami, Chrysocoryne angianthoides, Polycalymma 

 Stuartii, Craspedia pleiocephala, Monencyanthes gnaplialioides, Ixio- 

 Icsna tomentosa, Helichrysum apiculatum and Senecio Gregorii, all 

 of which appear, though with some of the names changed, in Mrs. 



