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and Microtis porrifolia, a lover of open moist situations. 
There was also found tliat peculiar leafless climbing orchid, 
Galeola cassythoides. Avoiding the swamps a noticeable 
feature were the bush Ricinocarpus pinifolius with its 
milk-white flowers, and at its feet often a second euphorbiad 
— the lowly herb Poranthera microphylla ; and Pomax 
umbellata, in flower and not as usual displaying tlie cupules, 
formed by its fruit valves ; the narrow-leaved protead 
Persoonia linearis ; the bright-blue berried Eleocarpus 
cyaneus ; Myrtus tenuifolia exhibiting clump-like growtlis, 
but neither flower nor fruit ; the so-called native liop- 
Dodoncjea triquetra ; less commonly in equally dry situa- 
tions were found Siebera ericoides, an elegant little 
umbellifer with small bunches of white flowers ; the blue- 
flowered lilies Dianella coerulea, with its keeled leaves, 
and D. loevis ; Patersonia sericea, with its simple grass-like 
leaves and large most delicate mauve flowers ; and the 
uncanny Hsemadorum tenuifolium with its erect scape 
and loose panicle of almost black flowers ; the pinnate 
leaved Gompholobium pinnatum ; the white-flowered 
Pimelea linifolia ; Astrotriche longifolia, a beautiful shrub 
with elongate-lanceolate dark-coloured leaves, white 
beneath with stellate tormentum ; and a new variety of 
this witli quite glabrous loaves, since named by the Col. 
Botanist, F. M. Bailey, glabrescens. 
Emerging from the forest and repairing towards the 
edge of the swamps, flowering bushes grew in great pro- 
fusion, often forming a thicket-like growth. These com- 
prised the myrtaceous plants : — Homoranthus virgatus, 
with its small inconspicuous flowers, Leirtospermiim flavescens 
the common Tea Tree, and L. flavescens, vcit. citriodora ; 
the Lemon Scented Tea-Tree ; the legumes Acacia 
suaveolens, the pretty Billwynias — 13. floribunda and 
D. ericifolia, the former with closely obliquely placed 
leaves, and the latter with wddely-separate patent ones ; 
unusuallv tall examples of Pimelea linifolia, and of 
Hibbertia linearis, var. obtusifolia ; the beautiful epacrid 
Lysenema pungens, with its large white flowers passing 
into pink as they faded ; and Brachyloma daphnoides, a 
second plant of the san'.e family — a plant wdth solitary 
diminutive blossoms ; and a third epacrid Sprengeha 
ponceletia ; the peculiar Olax retusa with cup-shaped 
calyx simulating an exocarp ; and the pink flowered 
Boronia ledifolia rosmarifolia (Rutacese), with rose, 
sometimes white, flowers. 
Nearer the swamp edges still were met with a second 
species of the last mentioned genus, viz., Boronia falcifolia, 
and a special variety of this with pinnate foliage also 
occurring on Peel Island (W. Soutter) ; the yellow-flowered 
legume "Phyllota phylicoidcs ; and the elegant protead 
