and increase confidence in the power, and wisdom, and providence of 

 Almighty God, I will walk the meadows by some gliding stream, 

 and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very 

 many other little living creatures that are not only created, but feed 

 (man knows not how) by the goodness of the God of nature, and, 

 therefore, trust in him." At this season of the year, the flat 

 grounds are one vast swamp, yet even here springs up the simple 

 little Claytonia Australasica* and the surface of the water is 

 covered with the minute inconspicuous flowers of Ranunculus in- 

 undatus (water crowfoot). Many aquatics may be secured now 

 for the herbarium — Potamogeton natans — P. obtusifolium (gramineum 

 of R. ~Brown)-MyriophyUum varriifolium (Hooker )-and the Dama- 

 sonium, with its many floating leaves, at first sight, resembling those 

 of a Potamogeton, but differing from them in the venation, and its 

 beautiful white JVymphcea-like flowers, crimson at the base, is a prize 

 indeed, even though you, my readers, may get a ducking, as was 

 our lot, in your endeavour to obtain it. Overhanging the river 

 the pendulous flowers of the various formed Acacias (wattles) 

 drooped most gracefully, emitting a most delicious perfume, inter- 

 spersed here and there with the delicate spike of pink flowers of 

 Indigofera sylvatica ; and the beautiful, almost transparent, 

 flowers of Sida pulchella, nearly hidden amongst its rich green 

 foliage. Everywhere the ground was studded, as with snow, with 

 that little exquisite gem Anguillaria dioica (Star of Bethlehem), 

 its petals circled on the interior with a band of brown ; and various 

 species of Drosera (sundew) ; D. Whittakerii (Planchon), with 

 radical, rosulate leaves (which impart a reddish dye to paper when 

 pressed), and large white flowers; D. Planchonii (J. Hooker), 

 figured in Hooker's "Icones Plantarum" as D. Menziesii, from 

 specimens found at Swan Foot, on the east coast of Van Diemen's 

 Land, easily distinguished from other species by its long, slender, 

 prostrate peduncles, and three leaves springing on slight petioles 



* This plant Is beautifully figured in Hooker's "Icones Plantarum." — Vol. /., 

 tab. 293. It grows in tufts, with elongated linear, somewhat spathulate leaves, 

 from two to four inches long, generally alternate, peduncles flowered ; petals pure 

 white, obovate, four times as long as the calyx, 



