457 OBSERVATIONS ON PLANTS, COLLECTED DURING MR. JOSEPH BRADSHAW'S EXPEDITION TO THE PRINCE REGENT'S RIVER. By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S. During the months of March, April, and part of May of this yea^, Mr. Joseph Bradshaw, an enterprising Melbourne citizen, conducted a private exploring expedition from Cambridge Gulf to Prince Regent's River, whereby, for the first time, some of the waters of that gulf became geographically connected with rivers flowing into Brunswick Bay. Thus now only the upper portion of Prince Regent's River became explored, although already 71 years ago Admiral Ph. P. King had discovered the estuary and lower portion of that stream. With praiseworthy circumspect-ness, in this expedition, unlike in many others, the leader of the party made arrangements for securing botanic . material during this enterprise, that particular task being specially entrusted to Mr. William Tucker Allen. The results, which also in this respect have rendered Mr. Bradshaw's expedition a very success-ful one, have been recorded in the following pages, with the prospect that during the soon commencing pastoral occupation of the Prince Regent's River country also botanic along with geographic exploits will be continued. Nymphaea coerulea, Savigny. Woodhouse River. From this locality is brought what appears to be a small-flowered variety of the above-named species, which is generally regarded as identical with N. stellata, but was published one year earlier. The only flower obtained has the sepals and petals barely one inch
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