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they seemed to be quite peaceably inclined; the 

 \\eather was very cold, and at nig'ht the rain set in 

 and continued to fall, almost without intermission, 

 till morning-. 



The next morning- (May 26th) was yery wet and 

 cold ; but after securing our horses, I ag'ain went 

 out to search for, and examine plants, although it 

 was too rainy to collect seeds or specimens. On a 

 Casnarina near the swamp, I saw a beautiful Lo- 

 runtlius with rather small oval leaves, — panicles of 

 flowers, with the tube of the corolla g-reen, and seg- 

 ments of the limb dark red — of a dwarf bushy habit. 

 This beautiful parasite covered the tree, and was 

 very showy. The afternoon turning- out fine and 

 warm, I collected several specimens and sorts of 

 seeds. In the open ground grew a beautiful tree 

 producing- large terminal spikes of yellow flowers, 

 with broad, and slightly cordate leaves; it belongs, 

 to the natural order Bignoniace^. 



The open ground between the beach and the 

 swamp varied in width from half a mile to three or 

 four miles ; it was principally covered with long 

 grass, with a belt of bushy land along the edge of 

 the beach ; the bush consisting- principally of Exo- 

 carpiis, with dark green oval leaves, near an inch 

 long; two dwarf species of Fabricia, one with 

 white, the other with pink flowers ; a species of 

 Jasmimim, with rather large, a hite, sweet-scented 

 flowers ; and a few acacia trees, with long, linear, 

 lanceolate phyllodia, and racemose spikes of bright 



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