NATIVE FLORA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11421, 1 December 1904, Page 7

NATIVE FLORA.

A discovery of some importance to botanists and scientists is repotted from Branxton (N.S.W.I Mr Joseph .Lynch, headmaster of the Superior Public School, Darliughurst, recently collected specimens of the native flora in the Branxton district, and after returning home, George. Thomas, junr., forwarded some specimens to Mr Lynch, who sent them to the Government botanist. for classification. Ainonst the specimens was discovered the "Oxylobium humi fusum," which belongs aoJely to" Australia, and which has been lost sight of since the American expedition in 1848. Mr Booran, Collector for the Botanical Gardens, was immediately despatched, to make' an inspection in the Branxton district, . and found" the flower, winch is unknown in other parts of Australia, but grows abundantly an- that district. This, he states, is the first trace of Oxylobium humi fusum discovered for upwards of GO yeara.