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and very small white flowers. Tlie real typical C. speciosa, 

 with its large, yellow-red, bell-shaped flowers, was noticed 

 sparingly on the high ground west of Cape Willoughby, 

 forming, as it ever does where I have seen it, low, open, erect- 

 shrubs, some 8 to 12 inches high. Bentham, in recording the 

 ^rst two as varieties (Flora, I., page 351), says : — " I follow F. 

 Mueller in uniting under one name all Correas with a truncate 

 four-toothed calyx, united petals, and four of the filaments 

 •dilated. At the same time, although the following races may 

 be found to pass into each other, ^^et they appear generally so 

 ■distinct, that I feel some hesitation in refusing to recognise 

 i;hem as species." In these sentiments I am sure many, and 

 not laymen only, will heartily agree, as it seems strange indeed 

 to call dissimilar plants by the same name. In my humble 

 opinion the term " variety'" ought to be limited to florists' 

 flowers, loliere it is Icnoioi that the seed of any one plant will 

 produce seedlings of different or aberrant forms, freely inter- 

 crossing, and again producing varied offspring in fairly even 

 proportion ; and to such spontaneous, aberrant, and inconstant 

 forms in natural circumstances, where they are intermixed 

 indiscriminately, so that without any stretch of imagination 

 it can be assumed that they resulted, as in the former case, 

 :from the seed of a common plant. I doubt if any one 

 knowing the above three plants in a living state could assume 

 that the seed of either would give rise to all, especially as they 

 occur in circumscribed areas far apart, seldom intermixed — C. 

 glabra, for example, in Victoria, South Australia, and Western 

 Australia ; in the last, I believe, the only form. Let such 

 "well-marked forms as these stand as species, under a distinct 

 simple appellation, till they be proved to be varieties in the 

 sense mentioned above. 



TempJetoiiia sp., very likely T. retusa, E. Br. (Lcgumin). — 

 An erect slender shrub, 2 to 2\ feet, with obovate leaves 

 one inch or more in length, on the limestone hills west of 

 Mount Tisbet. Xo flowers were seen. 



Acacia notahilis, 1\ v. M. — A low, slender tree with few- 

 branches. In sandy scrubs near Brownlow and elsewhere, and 

 of the same habit as in Yorke's Peninsula. 



Acacia Jonf/ifolia, AVilhlenow. — A tree or shrul) much re- 

 sembling the Golden AVattle (A. p3gnantha) in size and habit, 

 excepting that the leaves are much narrower and tlie bark 

 lighter Jind smoother. Plentiful at AVhite Gum (rully, south 

 of Hog Bay, along the roadside. 



Melaleuca deciissata, II. Br. (]\[yrtace<T). — A. small shrub two 

 to four feet high. On the rich, loose soil in the depression 

 between the limestone ridges west of Mount Tisbet. 



JEucalyptus goniocaJyx, F. v. M. — Fair-sized trees, Hog Bay 



