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After flowering, Banksias produce large woody teneath, and furnished at the margins with a few 



cones, in which their seeds are enclosed, many of spines ; flowers pale yellow, very showy, on large 



them heing very grotesque in form. oblong heads. 



B. mcsfralis. — A compact -growing plant, seldom £■ clnjaxdroides. — A charming small - growing 



exceeding six feet in height, with small dark green plant with pinnate leaves, resembling some of the 



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Azaleas. 



leaves, which are silvery-white beneath ; flowers 

 green. 



B. compar. — This is considered by some a variety 

 only of B. intcgrifolia ; it differs, however, in having 

 the margins of its leaves serrated ; they are dark 

 green above, and silvery- white beneath ; flowers 

 straw-colour. 



B. Cunninghamii. — A handsome dwarf species, 

 with narrow dark green leaves, which are hoary 



small-growing simple-leaved Polypodiums ; lobes 

 triangular, dark green above, ferruginous beneath ; 

 flowers pale yellow. 



B. foliosa. — Leaves obhmg, deep green above, 

 clothed with a greyish tomentum on the tmder side, 

 finely serrated on the margins ; flowers greenish- 

 yellow ; a highly ornamental plant. 



B. HooJcerii. — A noble plant, with broad and 

 deeply- lobed pinnatifid leaves, dark green above. 



