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Pomaderris . 



Hab. Banks of Hopkins River, near Tooram. 

 Fl. 



Discaria Australis — Hooker. 

 Hab. Loddon. 

 Fl. 



MYRTACEJE, R. BROWN. 



Baeckia utilis — Ferd. Mueller. 

 Hab. Mount Aberdeen. 

 Fl. 



"This plant," says Dr. Mueller, "might serve travellers in these desolate loca- 

 lities as tea; for the volatile oil of its leaves resembles greatly in taste and 

 odour that of lemons, not without a pleasant, peculiar aroma." — First 

 General Report. 1853. 



Camphoromyrtus crenulata — Ferd. Mueller. 

 Hab. Mount Aberdeen. 

 Fl. 

 The stem covered with very small roundish leaves in pairs. 



Fabricia laevigata — Gaertner. 

 Hab. By the sea near Brighton. 

 Fl. August. 

 A small fasces-shaped cocoon is common on this plant. Singular enough, it 



appears to be much fancied by that curse to all herbarium formers — the 



cockroach, — and above all others. 



Leptospermum grandiflorum— Loddiges. 

 Hab. Mount Aberdeen, banks of Yarra. 

 Fl. January. 



Leptospermum navescens-— Smith. 

 Hab. Ovens. 

 Fl. 



Ijeptospermum grandifolium — Smith. 

 Hab. Mount Aberdeen. 

 Fl. 



