[Footnote 3: We wish that every person who describes foreign plants on the spot, would do thus; it would greatly facilitate their culture.] [Illustration: No 286] [Illustration: No 287] [287] GOODENIA LAEVIGATA. SMOOTH GOODENIA. _Class and Order._ PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. _Generic Character._ _Flores_ monopetali, superi. _Caps._ bilocularis. _Cor._ supra longitudinaliter fissa, stigma urceolatum ciliatum. _Smith Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 2. p. 346._ _Specific Character._ GOODENIA laevigata foliis obovato-lanceolatis dentatis glabris. In the Autumn of 1792, SAMUEL TOLFREY Esq. most kindly invited me to inspect a vast number of the natural productions of Botany-Bay, in his possession; collected with great assiduity, and brought over in high preservation by Captain TENCH; among other curiosities, he shewed me specimens of the earths of that country, imported in very small bags. I suggested to Mr. TOLFREY, that those earths might possibly contain the seeds of some curious and unknown plants; he readily acquiesced in the idea, and permitted me to make trial of them: accordingly, in the Spring of 1793, I exposed them in shallow pans, on a gentle tan heat, keeping them duly watered; in the course of the Summer they yielded me fourteen plants, most of which were altogether new, and among others the species of _Goodenia_ here figured; this we have since found to be a hardy greenhouse plant, flowering from July to October, and very readily increased by cuttings.