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Tery much smaller; the growth of the plants of this 
genus is much lighter and finer than that of Leptos- 
permum. Baeckea linifolia is well known as a dainty 
little heath-like shrub with small white flowers. 
Baeckea plicata, which has been under cultivation for 
many years, is more correctly named Micromyrtus 
microphyUa. Another name given by the late Baron 
von Mueller was Thryptomene ciliata. It is a low- 
growing, diffuse shrub, with pinkish flowers chang- 
ing to red wdth age. It is found in the Mallee and 
in the Grampians; in the latter locality it grows in 
immense clumps of dozens of bushes. 
This is one of those low shrubs that should be in 
every garden where such dainty plants as Heath 
and Daphne are grown. It never grows large, but it 
makes up for that defect, if defect it be, by a won- 
derful profusion of bloom, lasting for a very long 
time on the plant. 
The Grampian shrub, Thryptomene Mitchelliana, 
ii without doubt, one of the most handsome and 
decorative of our native plants. Its erect habit of 
growth, its distinctive foliage, its wonderful masses 
of pink and white starry flowers, and its long period 
of flowering all combine to make a most desirable 
shrub for the garden. It grows readily from seed, 
especially if the seed be collected from a garden plant, 
and if it be fresh. Too much emphasis cannot be 
placed upon the beauty and elegance of this shrub; 
and although it has been placed in plant nurseries 
lists for some years, it is not nearly so frequent in 
gardens as it should be. It possesses to a marked 
degree, those characteristics so noticeable in the Aus- 
