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Bay country, although possibly some terrestrial orchideous plants may yet be found 
there during the cool season with other ephemerous herbs. The charming Everlastings 
of the more southern regions spread copiously also to the Gascoyne country, and may 
with many other far extra-tropical plants even transgress the circle of Capricorn, a 
subject which it would be all the more desirable to inquire into (as the Everlastings, for 
instance, are known not to spread so far as the Nickol Bay region) to form a leading 
feature in the herbaceous vegetation there. Much, also, is it to be wished that 
travellers and settlers in the Gascoyne District will make efforts at all favorable oppor- 
tunities to provide additional collections of plants, with a view of affording material for 
carrying the list, now commenced, gradually to completion. Indeed the desire of obtain- 
ing such aid applies to many other tracts of Western Australia, where, particularly far- 
inland, the regional distribution of the species has yet to be extensively traced. In this 
age of progress it is expected that all educated people should promote local research 
wherever and whenever possible, and this is all the more incumbent on explorers or 
residents in new territories, where nature’s treasures are yet scantily recognised, and 
where additional discoveries also in the empire of plants must contribute towards the 
advancement of prosperous colonisation and the establishment of happy and permanent 
homes. 
F. v. M. 
Ranuneulaceae. 
Clematis microphylla. D.C., Syst. i., 147 ; Freycinet Harbor, F. v. M. 
Dilleniaceae. 
Hibbertia spicata. F. v. M., Fragm. ii., 1 ; Freycinet Harbor, F. v. M. 
Hibbertia Huttii. F. v. M., Fragm. vii., 123; Freycinet Harbor, F. v. M. 
Capparideae. 
Cleome viscosa. L. Sp. PI., 672; Gascoyne River, J. Forrest and Polak. 
Emblingia calceoliflora. F. v. M., Fragm. ii., 3 ; Freycinet Harbor, F. v. M. 
Capparis Lasiantha. R. Br. in D.C. Prodr. i., 247 ; Menilyalya, J. Forrest ; Gascoyne 
River, Polak. Stamens to 20. 
Capparis spinosa. L. Sp. PI., 503 ; Freycinet Harbor, F. v. M. With many other 
plants from this locality, noted in Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. xi., 120. 
Cruciferae. 
Stenopetolum pedicellate. F. v. M. in Benth. FI. Austr. i., 79 ; Gascoyne River, J. 
Forrest. 
Stenopetalum croceum. Bunge in Lehm. PI. Preiss. i., 258; Menilyalya, J. Forrest; 
Gascoyne River, Polak. Common in the southern regions around Sharks Bay’ 
F. v. M. 
