Page:Voyage in search of La Perouse, volume 2 (Stockdale).djvu/93

]

Fig. 1. A branch.

Fig. 2. The flower.

Fig. 3. The corolla.

Fig. 4. The corolla displayed, to show how the petals adhere together laterally.

Fig. 5. The calyx, with the stamens and germen, the corolla having been removed.

Fig. 6. The capsule, beneath which the calyx is seen.

Fig. 7. One of the valves of the capsule.

Citizen Beaupré, engineer geographer, set off in the evening, in the General's barge, for the great creek, which we had perceived the preceding year to the north, in sailing out of Dentrecasteaux Strait. The principal object was, to ascertain whether it had any opening that communicated with the main sea, and whether the island of Maria was really separated from the land of New Holland; for this had not been sufficiently resolved by Marion, or even by Captain Cook.

The wind continuing to the north all the 17th, prevented our weighing anchor, and we went ashore, while our fishers proceeded toward the mouth of the strait. The flood brought in with it a considerable quantity of fish, and they caught several species of ray of a large size. Some were found