BAKKSIA PYRIFORMIS. 
any specific character, is thus described by 
White, in his account of New South Wales — ■ 
The Banksia with soh'tarv flowers, ovate 
downy capsules, and lance-shaped entire 
smooth leaves : the capsules being larger than 
ih any other known species." 
The Banksia Pyriformis is, in fa6l, a ligne- 
ous, ar woodvpear; and has, from it's colour 
snd form, all the resemblance of the European 
pear when unripe. 
Many people, in New South Wales, we arc 
assured, w^re at first sight of it much de- 
ceived; for, finding it hanging in clusters on 
the trees, and probably feeling no disinclination 
to food of almost any kind, they congratu- 
lated each other, that the woods were fur- 
nished with a fruit which promised to gratify 
the taste with something like what they were 
fond of in their own country: but, on hastily 
knocking them off the branches, and cagcrly 
npplying their teeth to them, they quickly 
found that there was less likelihood of losing 
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