FOREST VEGETATION. 39 
and -bar. gum st ' 
bark, with a little seanted apple. The unde reriwie are chiefly 
Jacksonia scoparia (dogwood) a species a blackwattle, and 
n ll shru 
16) in the leaf and seed-vessel more than in anything else. The 
leaf is of a dark-green colour, and the young ones lack the bright 
glossy appearance of those on the former species. The petiole i is 
half aninch long, and the midrib well defined and slightly pro- 
nent. The operculum i is two-thirds as long as the capsule, and 
<9 pedicel is short and very thick. The peduncle is about four- 
tenths of an inch i and is also thick. The leaves and floret 
resembling crag Usually there are five flor ets in the um 
some of which are bigver that others, and finish flov before 
the others are open. ‘Some of the fally-developed seedvenels 
attain a large size ; they are three-celled, and the valves form an 
timbers peculiar to this class of soil. 
Bastarp YELLOW-JACKET.—Group Rhytiphloie (specimen No. 
20).—This tree is very similar in bark and wood to the white 
box (E. hemiphloia), but the leaf is similar to that of the yellow 
box. It is of exactly the same size and appearance as that of 
imch : seed-vessel is in umbels of three , four, five, or 
six florets. The pedicel is short, and the duncle ‘one-fourth of 
an inch long. “The operculum is very small, and is one-third as 
long as the rk and almost flat In rit young state, before 
parting with the operculum, the seed-vessel is not more than one- 
sixteenth of an inch in diameter ; after flowering it is about one- 
tenth. The calyx is sometimes three and sometimes four ae 
| ._The excrescences may be caused by 
Habis, ze : dial gicinee hee and elvanite soils in 
