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-the higlier slopes and ridges of the Adelaide ranges. At the 

 latter locality its stems and branches are regularly and con- 

 stantly fonr-sided, thick, andflesh}^; those of dwarfed specimens 

 a few inches high always compressed. In the island this form 

 also occurs near Cape Willoughby, but sparingly and inter- 

 mixed with another which spreads over most of the scrub lands 

 between this place and Queenscliffe, with slender, round, 

 woody stems and branches, very different in aspect, but the 

 flowers are apparently similar. Blooming specimens vary from 

 one inch in height above the ground to two feet. 



A very pretty green Alga occurs near Queenscliffe which I 

 have not noticed either at Ardrossan or elsewhere in St. 

 Vincent Grulf, viz., Caiderpa scalpelliformis, Aghard. Its leaf- 

 like branches are toothed, almost pinnate, and grow from a 

 thick base forming large tufts. 



Specimens of all the plants (except the Xanthorrhoea) were 

 submitted to Baron Sir Ferd. von Mueller, who was so kind as 

 to identify them for me in his usual most obliging manner. 



