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Conospermum taxifolium with its masses of white flowers, 
and the pinkish flowered Comespermum retusum (Polygalese). 
In the swamps themselves, amidst masses of Kestiacese 
(e.f/., Restio tetraphyllus, etc.), Cyperaceae (e.g., Scirpus 
nodosus, Lepronia mucronata, Schaenus brevifolius, S. melan- 
ostachys and S, Brownii, and Gahnia psittacorum) grew the 
white heath, Epacris obtusifolia ; the crimson Bottle-Brush, 
Callistemon speciosus ; the lilaceous Sowerbaea juncea, 
with spherical heads of pale-mauve blooms ; the yellow- 
flowered Andrastaea salicifolia ; with here and there a clump 
of the Swamp Banksia — B. paludosa, or an open thicket of 
the proteaceous shrubs, Hakea saligna or Hakea gibbosa — 
both bearing their curious wooden fruits only at the time 
of our visit ; the pink-flowered Stylidium debile also was 
prevalent here. On the damp black soil at the foot of 
these plants grew several interesting herbs — notablj^ the 
little white-flowered Mitrasacme indica, and the equally 
diminutive Utricularia {1 U. laterifolia) ; whilst every here 
and there were glistening red patches of Drosera Burmanni, 
though a second species of erect habit Drosera binata was 
almost equally prevalent. There also occurred in these 
situations Haloragis micrantha, with tiny blossoms (sug- 
gesting a pink mist). As previously stated, the fern 
Blechnum spicatum was a denizen of those swamps that 
were also inhabited by the elegant Lycopodium laterale. 
On the hill sides on which Blood wood (Eucalyptus 
coryinbosa) and Oak (Casuarina) prevailed as timber trees, 
grew Jacksonia scoparia the Dog- Wood ; Pulteneea myr- 
toides, Bossisea heterophylla — a curious legume with 
distant oblong leaves and dark-brown broad pods, 
Gompholobium virgatum and the Mimosa-like Acacia 
juniperina and Xanthosia pilosa, and Hibbertia acicularis. 
1 Also near its highest points, the proteaceous plants 
Strangea linearis and Petrophila Shirleyanse — honoured 
by the name of the lady of our worthy President — and 
along the sandy country at their bases was found, besides 
plants already mentioned, Xerotes longifolia and Xerotes 
multiflora, the latter having the female blossoms condensed 
in ^ spherical woolly heads. Also the curious intricately 
twisted cyperad Caustis flexuosa, and the composite 
Helichrysum oxylepis, and the liliaceous Laxmannia gracilis. 
The leafless parasite Cassytha racemosa also spread 
its tangles over the shrubby growth, botli on hill side and 
level country. 
Other plants secured, but unspecified in the foregoing 
remarks, were : — Hibbertia fasciculata ; H. (? diffusa) ; 
Erechtites quadridentata, Goodenia stelligera, Tricoryne 
elatior, Endiandra sieberi (a Laurinaceous plant with 
black fruit), Loranthus spp. Crinum pedunculatum, 
Smilax glyciphylla (common at the back of the sea-beach), 
and Xyris complanata and Cladium glomeratum.— C. W. 
