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ANNUAL REPOET

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REPORT

Melbourne Botanical Garden,
30th September, 1865.

Sir,

I have the honor of submitting to you a General Report on the more recent labors
performed in the Botanical Garden, and in the Museum connected with this establishment.

The Yarra flood of October, 1863, had left the lower garden area in a state of such
extensive devastation, that ever since a large share of labor available in the department
was absorbed, not merely in the restoration of the ground and its plantations, but also by
the adoption of such measures as will tend to obviate the recurrence of similar disasters.
It became thus necessary to raise the Yarra bank along the whole line of the Garden,
generally to the extent of several feet, and this work could even by this time not have been
accomplished without a special vote, had not the drought of last summer and autumn laid
dry the marginal portion of the lagoon and facilitated the removal of many thousand loads
of soil of the river banks to the lower part of the bridge walk, and to the depressed
portion of the borders facing the south side of the lake.

By levelling of the flood debris, and by distributing over it the soil from the adjacent
excavations, I caused the north-eastern swampy portion of the lake to be transformed into
a lawn, accessible especially to boat parties as picnic ground. Fern trees, Bamboos,
Dracaenae, New Zealandian and hardy Australian palms, as well as other plants, imparting
to the landscape a somewhat tropical feature, have been grouped at the adjoining edge of
the lake within the spontaneously growing Melaleuca jungle. Also a good sized bower of
rustic workmanship has been erected on the spot. The scattering of some umbrageous
trees over this new lawn, and the construction of a frond house of tall American Arbor Vitae,
will complete the main improvements of this part of the Garden. Having seen a structure
such as indicated, one of exquisite beauty and refreshing coolness, in the Imperial Garden
of Rio Janeiro, I have striven to provide the necessary plants of this Thuia. Perhaps
other coniferous trees with a tendency to lateral growth might be chosen for kindred
purposes.

In many parts of the Garden iron bowers, set in basalt blocks, and thus of long
lasting durability, have been provided : indeed these, together with the long extent of iron
fences fixed to basaltic foundation stones, and the numerous lines of glazed drain-pipes,
must be regarded as among the permanent property of the Garden.

A good many of the walks are now edged with brick or tile gutters ; still, as our
grounds are mostly lying on declivities, much additional work needs yet to be done for
carrying readily off the water after heavy rainfalls.

By the extension of the system of the Yan Yean waterworks to South Yarra during
the last year, the boon of inexpensive water supply through gravitation came at last within
our reach.

Iron pipes, of 3 inches diameter, extend now from the upper eastern part of the
Garden to the summit of the rise beyond the north-western limits of our ground. From
hence I was enabled to conduct the water in open channels along the slopes towards the
Yarra and the City bridge, through nearly the whole length of the Government House
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reserve. An arrangement is under progress to provide a second main pipe of the
aqueducts, in order that the tree plantatious in the special reserves of the Botanic Garden,
and in that part of the Government House domain inclining to the St. Kilda road, may
enjoy already this summer a similar benefit of irrigation. In the last-mentioned reserves,
not only extensive lines of avenue trees have been arrayed along the walks more recently
laid out, but also the grassy undulations and slopes have widely and permanently been
planted with Firs and other coniferous trees, and with Mediterranean and American Oaks,
many evergreen.

The means for these extensive operations on the grounds also beyond the garden
area have been exclusively supplied from the votes of this department. The kinds of
trees chosen, and the number planted, are indicated on the attached plan. Thus, the lines
of avenues now established in the Garden and in the surrounding reserves comprise the
following 42 kinds of trees : the Illawarra Flame tree, the Poplar-Bottle tree, Pithecolo-
bium pruinosum, the British Birch, Grevillea robusta, Gleditschia, the Sugar Maple, the
Sycamore Maple, Ailantus glandulosa, the Azedarach or White Cedar, the spreading Black
Poplar, the Abele Poplar, the Moreton Bay Fig tree, Hymenosporuin flavum, the British
Elm, the Bluegum tree, the Stringybark tree, the West Australian Redgum tree, the Cork
Oak, Powlonia imperialis, the columnar and the spreading Mediterranean Cypress, the
tall Cupressus macrocarpa and Cupressus Lawsoniana of California, the Himalayan
Cupressus torulosa, the Halepo Pine, the Stone Pine, the Japan Gingko, the Wellingtonia
or Big tree, the Bunya Bunya tree, the Canary Islands Fir, Pinus excelsa from the Indian
Highlands, the Deodar Cedar, the Walnut tree, the Weeping Willow, the Locust tree,
the true Plane, the North America Wax Ash, and Pinus insignis of California.

The three last-mentioned kinds have shown such a celerity of growth that I
cannot refrain from drawing special attention to their superiority over very many other
eligible avenue plants. Thus Pinus insignis has grown here with about twice the rapidity
of a Cluster pine, and thrice that of a Scotch Fir. Planes and Wax Ashes, if once estab-
lished, could be multiplied locally with the greatest ease from cuttings.

Irrespective of these kinds, a number of miscellaneous trees of deciduous foliage,
including Horse Chesnut trees. Sweet Chesnut trees, Limes, &c., are mingled with the
evergreen tree vegetation on the causeway at the Yarra banks. Some additional lines
of trees are projected on the northern reserve, and for these may be chosen such superior
species as the Sycamore Fig tree, which is the favored tree along roadsides and around
dwellings in Egypt, where single lines of this tree are found sufficient to overshade broad
streets with its expansive ramifications.

As further eligible for avenues may be mentioned the Lemon-scented Eucalyptus,
the Karri Gum tree of West Australia, next to Wellingtonia probably the most gigantic
tree of the globe ; the Cardwellia sublimis and other noble trees recently discovered in the
jungles of the north-east coast, and probably hardy here ; especially also the Manna Ash,
which has proved here, as. might be expected from its South European origin, much less
susceptible to the effects of scorching winds than its middle European congener ; further,
Azadirachta trees, the Siris Acacia, Amyris terebinthifolia, several North American trees,
especially from the southern states, some here already under test of experiment ; the
Chinese evergreen Elm, the Basket Willow, Oranges, several kinds of true Oaks, Cupressus
Goveniana, the most rapid and at the same time perhaps the most spreadingly growing of
all lofty Cypresses ; Flindersia trees of several kinds ; several Ekeocarpi, hardy and of tall
growth, especially Elmocarpus holopetalus of East Gipps Land, and of the southern part of
New South Wales ; perhaps also Eucryphia Moorei, and other trees, such as continued
and successive trials may point out as adapted to our clime.

And here the prospects are most cheering. For, with due regard to aspect, soil
and shelter, we may select for overshading our roads and streets from an almost endless
number of kinds of tree within the broad girdle of the whole temperate and also the sub-

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tropical zone. And let it further be remarked, that in some states of middle Europe for
many years past public roads have been lined with the ordinary fruit trees of our gardens,
an example well worthy of imitation in every other adapted part of the globe, since this
measure has become not merely a boon to wayfarers but also a source of a lasting
revenue.

The total number of avenue trees, which have found a permanent place within the
special area of the Botanic Garden, amounts now to 1,230; that of the southern domain, to
1,429; that of the northern ground, to 162; that of the Government House reserve, to
1,656. Besides, between the Garden Bridge and the next railway station, lines of elms
are planted. Thus the total number on the grounds under my control amounts to 4,443.
The incipient pineta, formed on our ground, are still more important. On the lawns
around the Palmhouse, already a collection of 185 kinds exists; this number represents,
however, not all species in our possession, since many additional kinds are scattered
through the Garden.

On the slope facing the lagoon, 306 pines are planted, amongst which the pre-
dominant Araucarias have assumed already a magnificent appearance. From these groups
of coniferous trees the young pine forests are uninterruptedly extended for future handsome
groves over the Yarra slopes to the City bridge, and from thence again over the brow of the
hill facing the St. Kilda road, and continued by young copses of Mediterranean firs along
the Domain road. In the Government House reserve alone, 7,342 pines or pine-like
trees are planted. Added to these, 1,299 Conifers planted out on the Garden lawns,
and more than 1,000 in the Domain copses, and others scattered through the Garden
borders, would give at least 10,000 coniferous trees, to which permanent places have been
assigned.

The kinds chosen for the various groups, as may be observed on reference to the
plan, are the following: Pinus Pinaster, P. maritima, P. Halepensis, P. pinea, P. Laricio, P.
silvestris, P. Mughus, P. Abies, P. Larix, P. Cembra, P. Canadensis, P. Nordmanniana, P.
excelsa, P. Smithiana, P. inops, P. Strobus, P. Sabiniana, P. Douglasli, P. insignis, P. pon-
derosa, P. Jeffreyi, Sequoia Wellingtonia, Araucaria Cookii, A. Bidwillii, Callitris Gunnii,
Cupressus glauca, C. torulosa, C. macrocarpa, C. Goweniana, C. Lawsoniana. In their
progress of growth the relative superiority and comparative value of all these trees may
be watched.

It may justly be anticipated, that whenever, under the protecting shelter of the
Wattle- Acacias, these young firs will have advanced to a stately size, that then a striking
change in the aspect of this portion of the metropolitan landscape will take place ;
moreover, the Garden will then much less suffer from exposure and drought ; and above
all a pine park will be established, to which most of the city inhabitants will have a
nearer and more easy access than to the Botanic Garden. We may hope, also, that
after the lapse of a decennial period, seeds from this locality will become available in
large masses, fresh for forest culture, a branch of State economy which demands to be
initiated ere many more years pass away.

In the reserve opposite the Domain road, to 900 either Mediterranean or North
American Oaks, many evergreen, and counting among them a large proportion of Cork
Oaks, permanent positions have been assigned. Quercus lancifolia and Q. Toza were
found the most rapid grown ; then follow in celerity of growth Q. Suber, Q. Sideroxylon,
Q. confertifolia, Q. Mirbeckii, Q. Thomasii, Q. inversa, Q. heterophylla.

The experimental ground ascending along the south-western side of the lagoon
unfortunately suffered much from the last three floods, but may now be considered secure.
It has during the last year been considerably extended and the means of irrigation have
been applied.

None of the varieties of Cotton have matured any fruit on the spot, though at
Yackandandah and other of the warmer parts of the colony it bore again this season.

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Arrowroot and Ginger have shown a satisfactory yield, and the produce of Sweet
Potato has been abundant. Among the kinds of Tobacco, the Connecticut variety has
proved most prolific, and experiments instituted at Ipswich, in Queensland, with various
kinds of tobacco from this Garden have yielded in the warmer climate there similar
results. The Maryland tobacco also luxuriated. The Shiraz tobacco, cultivated already
last year, evidently does not find in the vicinity of the metropolis that equality of a mild
and humid mountain climate, under which, in the highlands of Persia, it advances to
perfection, though undoubtedly in our moist and elevated mountain regions this variety
would prosper. The Rheeafibre or Grasscloth plant has thriven fairly. For Coffee, as
might be anticipated, the climate has proved here too variable, the temperature of our
cool season being too low and that of the warm season too dry to secure a remunerative
crop of this plant. By seeds, however, distributed from this establishment, the best variety
of Mocha Coffee has been introduced, and now for plantation purposes been established
in the Feejee group. But our experiments teach us, that even in the vicinity of
Melbourne the Chinese Tea can be grown advantageously as far as climatic conditions
are concerned. This plant should evidently in Victoria attract a more general attention
of the agriculturist, as it is clearly destined to form, at no distant day, one of the
commodities of indigenous culture. If the tea plant succeeds well in the changeable
and often for lengths of time arid air of the city vicinity, how luxuriantly will not this
important plant grow on the slopes of our wooded forest ranges, from which, on account
of the difficulty of transport, cereal crops cannot advantageously be realized.

We stand evidently in need of a few small experimental gardens in the mild and
humid parts of our mountain regions, where irrigation could easily be effected, and where
seclusion from hot winds would be perfect.

Whether under the expenditure here as yet attending cultivation, as compared to
that of India and China, tea produced in this colony can be brought to compete with that
imported, remains to be demonstrated by facts ; but it seems not unlikely that with our
superior ingenuity in the application of apparatus and machinery the preparation of the
tealeaves might be largely aided, while the engagement of labor, especially of the juvenile
and infirm, might still be rendered remunerative for the gathering of the leaves. The
cultivation of tea has certainly of late drawn into India a large amount of European
capital and is there now most successfully pursued.

That the tea plant adopts itself to much diversified soil with facility has been borne
out by all authentic information. Mr. Handley Sterndale observed the plant thriving on
vegetable mould largely mixed with sand, on debris of metamorphic rocks, on trap, on clay
slate, on mica slate, on mica rocks mixed with quartz, and even on ferrugineous clay. In
the mountains about Assam and elsewhere in India it ascends to 6,000 feet elevation. In
Kohistan and the Punjab the tea shrubs are exposed to occasional snowfall and frosts,
under which the plant only in a young seedling state, when it is unfit to cope with great
atmospheric changes, succumbs. Where bush fires had destroyed tea plantations they have
been observed to spring again after the advent of rain. Mr. Sterndale recommends the im-
portation of tea seeds from Bengal whenever required on a large scale and of a superior kind.

In the local experimental gardens, the establishment of which suggests itself as
desirable, and which perhaps could be connected with industrial schools, other plants of
importance might be subjected to trials.

The first of such experimental gardens of a limited extent might be established in
East Gipps Land, at Mount Macedon, and on the Murray River. Some preliminary
measures to form a small Cinchona plantation in one of the mild glens of Mount Macedon
have been initiated. How important it would prove to plant the warmer coast ranges of
Australia and any other accessible parts with these precious trees, may be estimated by
the circumstance, that Cinchona bark is brought in South America remuneratively from
distances of several weeks travels through the forests to the nearest mercantile ddp6t.

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Though in Australia we have only in the high coast ranges of Queensland and the
northern part of New South Wales localities precisely corresponding in elevation, humidity
and temperature to those parts of the Andes in which the most valued Cinchonas are
indigenous, we may still entertain the hope, that what in Victoria we are missing in eleva-
tion of mountain tracts of mild atmosphere, would he recompensed by our lower mountain
regions with their equability of a serene climate, and that therefore, in the Palm tree
country of the eastern part of Gipps Land, or perhaps even in any of our extensive Fern tree
gullies, the Cinchona would flourish. Plants of the two most important quinine yielding
species, Cinchona succirubra and Cinchona Calisaya, are long since secured for the
conservatories of this Garden, and if provision could be made for local experiments, such as
I indicated, the number of plants could readily be increased by the ingenious method of
layering, first adopted by Mr. Mclvor in the Madras Presidency, a method unknown in
South America, but which has yielded hundreds of thousands of plants within a short space
of time to the many Indian Cinchona plantations.

In the annexed plan, which may serve as a general guide through the Garden and
reserves, their prominent features have been delineated. The places allotted to eminently
useful, rare or conspicuous plants have been marked with numbers, though such indications
on a plan of so reduced dimensions can only be limited. Some of the projected improve-
ments have also been pointed out on the plan. On the southern side of the lake 110
chiefly Australian Acacise have been congregated, since these plants are to us of special
interest as belonging to a genus in species the richest of all in Australia. On the grass
land at the adjoining rise a considerable number of different species of Eucalyptus are
displayed, it being my aim to see the principal forms of this here so important genus of
plants well represented in our Garden establishment. Of the Chinese white Mulberry tree
a plantation has been formed near the Domain road, a continued demand of the leaves
being experienced for sericulture, notwithstanding that the tree has been so extensively
distributed from hence year after year.

The rockeries lately formed help to embellish many spots of the Garden. Of
statues, as yet, nothing exists, however much they are desirable for enhancing the beauty
of the spot. The pressure on the resources of a department so large, in its obligations so
extensive and still under the process of formation, has hitherto been such, that calls for
works of mere ornamentation were required to give widely way to those of utility.

Still it is hoped, that during the next year improvements may be effected in this
direction, when simultaneously the acquisition will be needed of a number of fountains in
the more conspicuous and open places. To provide for these works of art marked facilities
exist in the fall of the ground, a jet of water for instance from one of the recently formed
islands of the lagoon being propelled to the height of about sixty feet, by gravitation.
Around the orchestre, and on other much traversed parts of the lawns, where it is difficult
to maintain a verdant sward, three kinds of grasses of rigid and matted growth, Stenotaph-
rum glabrum, Festuca distich ophylla and Cynodon Dactylon, have been adojited as a cover.
Scleranthus biflorus, a sub-alpine plant of Victoria, forming a dense cushion-like turf, has
here and there been chosen for edgings, though its slowness of growth will only allow its
adoption gradually. The plant has withstood our summer heat much better than Spergula
pilifera. Rose and Box edgings have of late here been adopted in preference to those of
Chamomile and other plants involving in their maintenance much loss of labor. Some
edging has been effected with basalt boulders.

The collection of fruit trees and vines, carefully named, has become gradually rich,
and will be further extended, as it is of interest to watch and compare locally the
respective merits of every kind.

The orchard thus formed may be transferred to the area of the Government House
at a future period. The contents of the conservatories have much increased in varietv ;
the selections of Ferns, CacteaB and other succulents being particularly rich. Of 700

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species of here cultivated trees and shrubs seeds were collected in as large a quantity as
available for interchanges. Of grasses the seeds of 170 kinds, of ferns the spores of 80
species were likewise harvested in the Garden. Of herbaceous plants 1,100 species were
last summer under cultivation. The Queensland plants, grouped on one of the slopes of
the grassy garden-valley, have endured well the vicissitudes of our clime. The hedge of
Pittosporum eugenioides proves a feature equally interesting and ornamental, and as the
plants can be raised with facility from seeds, and these are so readily accessible in New
Zealand, this Pittosporum, as Well as the allied P. tenuifolium, might be extensively
employed for surrounding garden areas. Noltea Africana has recommended itself similarly
for hedging. The call on our nurseries has been as extensive as ever for supplying plants
to church and school reserves, cemeteries, and other public institutions. To Parliament
House reserve lately 132 plants of pines several years old and 50 large sized bushes
have been transferred. How extensively useful the establishment has been in dispersing
superior trees and other plants over the country is evinced by the unparalleled instance,
that alone of 40,000 Stone Pines raised at one time, and of 7,000 Deodar Cedars raised at
another, barely enough were left for the use of the department after satisfying public
demands. Under these circumstances, it cannot be otherwise than that the obligation
of providing at so large a scale for the requirements of the public ground throughout the
whole colony must be excessively burdensome to the department, and were the resources
of the establishment to suffer reduction, it would be impossible to respond also in future,
as I am still prepared, to all the claims for extensive supplies of plants or for furnisliing
almost daily cut flowers for fetes of charities or other public demonstrations.

Nevertheless I regard the claims of the inhabitants of country districts, who cannot
draw the same direct advantage from the Garden as metropolitan visitors, the claim to
enjoy the indirect benefit of supplies for their public institutions from an establishment
solely supported out of the general revenue as extremely just, and their wants have
therefore continually and cheerfully been attended to. Thus, 209 institutions have been
supplied during the past planting season. If the needful tending has been bestowed on
all the plants since a series of years from hence distributed, the gifts conferred must be
evident in all directions throughout the Victorian territory.

Seeds of such eminently useful plants as will bear a tropical clime have been
provided for several of the northern settlements of Australia, as also for the expedition
sent out by the ladies in search of Dr. Leichhardt. Among the seeds distributed were
large quantities of various kinds of cotton, mainly received from the Manchester Associa-
tion, who moreover very thoughtfully and liberally presented a very excellent cotton-gin
to the department.

The distribution of plants to private gardens has been very limited, and in
reciprocation only, pines and purchasable plants being excluded from the exchange.

Investigations into the causes of rust in cereals engaged my attention during a
portion of last summer. The results of the enquiry, one which needs to be largely
extended, were submitted in a report to the Board of Agriculture. For many experiments
of a chemical or technological character, we are sadly in want of a laboratory and
apparatus, requirements which unavoidably must be provided for, if such investigations
as led to the recognition of the mercantile value of many oils, gums, resins, barks and
other vegetable substances are to be continued, or anew to be initiated. The efforts to
provide for the last great home Exhibition have been followed by many gratifying results.
As a fact not very generally known, I may instance that from the resin of the Grass trees
picric acid can be prepared, now so extensively used as a yellow dye, and on a basis of
Indigo for green color. That unbounded treasures of our forests, available by dry
distillation of their woods, remain dormant is but too apparent, and in the furtherance
of native industry, and in affording new means for the employment of the colonists, the
special application of technological chemistry should be brought to bear on this branch

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of our resources. The extension of the Museum building stands also much in need,
though the contemplated large middle room for the display of timber and other vegetable
products, whether commercially or medicinally or technologically important, cannot be
effected with the vote available during this year, since much of the outer fencing needs
to be renewed, and additions to be made to several of the other buildings of the depart-
ment.

Multifarious other engagements have rendered it impossible for me to resume field
labors during the last season ; but I cherish a hope to be able to complete the botanical
survey of East Gipps Land during the coming summer, a part of our territory not even
geographically well explored. We may presume that on the forest mountains and in the
jungle-glens between the Genoa River and Snowy River the discovery of plants still new
will reward the search, and that the precise southern limits of many species from the
warmer parts of East Australia will be ascertained. Mr. Dallachy, under considerable
disadvantages, and occasionally not without imminent danger arising from the hostility
of the natives, continues zealously to collect in the densely wooded humid ranges about
RockinghanVs Bay, and he is requested to endeavor to reach the crests of the Bellenden
Ker Range, the highest mountain tract of intertropical Australia, and the most promising
which remains to be explored. Indeed, we may presume that whenever the high hills of
North-East Australia have been scrutinized by an experienced traveller, not many hundred
new plants (if Fungi are excluded) will be left to be discovered throughout the wide
tracts of this continent. The Fungus Flora, however, will entail special observations foi
many years.

A brisk interchange is maintained with kindred institutions abroad and in the
colonies, as will be manifest from the subjoined list of contributions, many of which are
exclusively donations, and evince the continued generous interest which the Garden and
Museum experienced. From many mercantile firms we have enjoyed tree tiansit for
consignments, and the aid rendered in this direction by the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company is beyond all praise. Among the various and important
plants recently acquired are the Colchicum, the Inca Maize (obtained from Maishal
Santa Cruz, Peruvian Ambassador in Paris), various new varieties of fruits, the A alonia
Oak, Tragacanth plant, Tanners Sumach, Senna, the American Percimoon (obtained
through the kindness of Consul Blanchard), the Chinese Tallow tree, the Jalap plant
(secured by L. A. Bernays, Esq.), the edible Cluster Fig tree of North-East Australia,
Pistacia Terebintlius, and many others numbered in the accompanying plan.

Of the West Australian Mahagoni tree, which yields a wood so completely resisting
decay in sea water, a large number of plants are in our nurseries.

Mr. G. Coppin has most attentively arranged for the introduction of some of the
hardy Vines of North America, the cultivation of which has of late attracted so much
attention.

Future more extended border culture cannot be attempted with the means at our
command, though to the tree plantations on our lawns may be added, and the variety ot
plants cultivated on our borders be vastly increased from extratropical and subtropical
countries. Contending with great sterility of soil and with the growth of weeds, active
throughout the year, it would be vain to attempt maintaining a larger area neatly under
cultivation. The proportions of ground under spade culture, and that occupied by arboreta,
are indicated on the plan.

For the further embellishment of the existing borders we might prominently effect
large introductions of South African plants through a special emissary, since no country of
the world would more abundantly yield plants of ornament calculated to piospei in this
climate. As yet we have of the immense number of Pelargonia, Mesembryanthema, Eiica?,
Oxalides, Phylicse, Stapelise, Aloes, llelichrysa, leguminous, iridaceous plants and otheis
indigenous to South Africa, comparatively but a limited number ; most of these would
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produce here seeds in cultivation and afford the means of interchanges still more extended
than even those hitherto carried on.

I may avail myself of this opportunity to submit my views how, at a future period,
the best access could be given to the Garden when the palace of the Governor shall have
been raised at the site reserved in the early days of the colony for this purpose, and the
present drive from the City bridge will not be any longer available for general traffic.
If the path formed already along the base of the ridges facing the Yarra was so far widened
as to be transformed into a carriage drive, then a most pleasant road would be opened
without any encroachment on the seclusion of the Government House domain. By widen-
ing the causeway which separates the Yarra from the lake, we might extend the river drive
through the Garden area, and therewith one of the most delightful passages for vehicles
could be established. If a carriage bridge could be extended over the Yarra abreast of
Jolimont road the access to the Gardens would become perfect.

The Yarra foot bridge, though it suffered so much from the three last devastating
floods, after the temporary repair effected by the order of the Board of Land and Works,
will serve for traffic until the beautiful and lastiug iron girder structure now provided by
the Government shall have been completed.

In the literary branch of the department four works emanated within the last year.
To these I may be permitted briefly to allude. A quarto volume of lithograms of
Victorian plants embraces sixty-six plates, illustrative of such species not delineated before
as exhibit more prominent^ characters of orders and genera of our indigenous vegetation.
The analytical details are given extensively ; hence by the use of this volume, the student
will not only without .special reading be readily initiated into the terminology of botanical
science, but be enabled also to start from some leading point for any unaided enquiry into
the vegetation which may surround him, especially since other publications, some specially
applied to the Flora of this country, exist to facilitate his researches. The series of these
lithograms is under continuation. Of the Fragmenta Phytograph ia? Australia;, the fourth
volume has appeared, mainly replete with descriptions of plants not previously known to
science. It is probable, that the fifth volume, of which a considerable portion has been
printed, and in which, among other grand features in the Australian empire of plants, the
lofty Alexandra palm and several new fern trees are rendered known, can be issued before
the end of the year. A series of drawings of mosses, published also within the year, will
probably attract the attention of a number of observers to the delicate forms of these
readily preserved objects for microscopic investigation, the local study of which presents
especial charm so long as we are far from being fully acquainted with the moss-flora of
this county. A small volume on the plants of the Chatham Islands, elaborated in the
latter part of last year, is based on material presented to the museum of our botanical
department by W. T. L. Travers, Esq., of Nelson, N.Z., with a special request for the
elucidation of these plants. . Though this material afforded actually but a limited number
of species, of the existence of which we had no previous knowledge, it was well deserving
of special elucidation, since the little Chatham group was formerly almost unexplored
regarding its vegetable productions. At the time when the plants of the Chatham Islands
were received here and rendered known, a volume also on the plants of New Zealand,
written by Dr. Jos. Hooker, passed in London through the press, for which volume Mr.
Traverss collections became not timely accessible. But while the new researches on the
New Zealand plants were still unknown to me, I purposely gave simultaneous publicity
to my own observations, in order that the independent views of two observers on a number
of identical plants might subsequently be compared, the expression of disj)arity of opinion
always tending largely to elicit truth. How far our observations are concordant may be
demonstrated by the fact, that Dr. Hooker admits not less than seventeen New Zealandian
species of the genus Epilobium, while I recognize but one, and that what I consider
varieties of one polymorphous Veronica is moulded by the illustrious author of the New

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Zealand Flora into nineteen specific forms. That through want of extensive field studies
untenable limits are assigned to a vast number of supposed specific forms admits of no
doubt whatever, and it is equally evident that the vain attempt to draw lines of specific
demarcation between mere varieties or races, hitherto not sufficiently understood in their
relation to allied forms of organic life, has largely tended to suggest the theory of transmu-
tation, a doctrine against which in the treatise under consideration I have expressed though
cursory still unequivocally a dissenting opinion. Of the second volume of Victorian plants,
the greater portion descriptive of the order of Leguminosae has been printed. But the
continuation of this work, commenced on a more comprehensive scale than almost any
other existing of a kindred tendency, has for a while been suspended, with a view of
giving precedence to a more concise publication, brought out under the aid of our
botanical office, by Mr. G. Bentham, the President of the Linnean Society. The
expressions of opinions given by this great phytographer in the issue of this work
cannot be otherwise than of advantage in the elaboration of the future volumes to be
devoted to the “ plants of Victoria." For the two volumes hitherto written, and the third
under preparation, on the universal vegetation of Australia, comprising all Thalamiflorse and
with exception of Composite all Calyciflorse hitherto found in Australia, 468 fascicles of
plants from the Melbourne Botanical Museum have successively been foi warded for tem-
porary perusal and consultation to Kew. For the concluding portion of the third volume
61 fascicles of Composite are prepared. On reference to Mr. Bentham s work, it will be
observed that the united material, which in Australia through my researches since 1847
was brought together, is larger than the collections which since the time of Sir Jos. Banks s
voyage with Capt. Cook accumulated in Britain, if mine deposited there are subtracted.
Seizing on every opportunity which presents itself to add to our store of prepared plants, and
maintaining continually one collector in the field, I am almost constantly augmenting the
riches of our collections. The whole herbarium of this establishment may be estimated as
comprising about 286,000 specimens ; the number of extra-Australian individual plants
exceeds somewhat those of the Australian portion. Both divisions are kept separate, for
the sake of affording increased facility for working with the Australian specimens. How
far the formation and elucidation of these collections have already exercised an influence
on the process of rendering descriptively known the plants of the Australian continent
may be learned, in a retrospective view, from the exposition annexed, accoiding to which,
by my local researches, more than 300 genera either not indicated before or specifically
not elucidated, were for the first time introduced into the systematic arrangement of
the vegetation of this great part of the globe; 95 of these represent generic types novel to
science.

Genera not previously known among described Australian plants : Caltha,
Myosurus, Tetracera, Stephania, Drimys, Sisymbrium (Blennodia), Capsella, Turntis,
Busbeckia, Polygala, Xanthophyllum, Hugonia, Scolopia, Brackenridgea, Adansonia, He-
licteres, Melochia, Riedleya, Melhania, Waltheria, Corchorus, Triumfetta, Grewia, Sloanea,
Abelmoschus, Gossypium, Pavonia, Urena, Lagunaria, Bergia, Xanthoxvlon, Euodia,
Melicope, Ryssopterys, Atalaya, Ratonia, Harpullia, Nephelium, Cardiospermum, Ail-
antus, Turrtea, Ximenia, Villaresia, Byronia, Erytbroxylon, Sagina, Polycarpaea, Glinus,
Mollugo, Triantliema, Aizoon, Sesuvium, Tetragonia, Hippocratea, Gouania, Celastrus,
Euonymus, Canarium, Rhus, Parinarium, Homalium, Zizyplius, Melanthesa, Balogliia,
Mallotus (Rottlera), Macaranga (Mappa), Bridelia, Acalypha, Tragia, Hemicyclia,
Andrackne, Exccecaria, Aleurites, Ceratophyllum, Weinmannia, Geissois, Donatia, Aigo-
phyllum, Jussiaea, Ludwigia, Ammannia, Ameletia, Ceriops, Bryoniopsis, Muckia, Lagunaria,
Trichosanthes, Luffa, Zehneria, Memecylon, Metrosideros, Syzygium, Oathartocarpus,
Calpurnia, Westonia, Adenanthera, Agati, Sesbania, ^Escliynomene, Lourea, Gajanus,
Rhynchosia, Tephrosia, Erythrophlaeum, Pterolobium, Yiscum, Rhytidandra, Paratropia,
Seseli, Pozoa, Crantzia, Ligusticum (Gingidium), Guettarda, Polyphragmon, Gardenia,
No. 72— b, 2.

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Ixora, Knoxia, Timonius, Coelospermum, Spermacoce, Hedyotis, Nertera, Sarcocephalus,
Eupatorium, Ageratum, Berthelotia, Pluchea, Adenostemma, Autennaria, Abrotanella
(Trineuron), Spilanthes, Eclipta, Enhydra, Gynura, Bidens, Haplotaxis, Centratherum,
Grammatotheca, Symplocos, Bidaria, Gongronema, Alstouia, Cerbera, Lactaria, Melo-
dious, Chilocarpus, Mitreola, Fagrtsa, Geniostoraa, Adhatoda, Dicliptera, Ebermayeria,
Dipteracanthus, Adenosma, Bonnaya, Rhamphicarpa, Peplidium, Baea, Hydrolea, Lycirnn,
Datura, Canscora, Coldenia, Echinospermum, Ocimum, Pogostemon, Ligustrum, Ardisia,
Choripetalum, Maesa, Helicia, Echiuopsilon, /Erva, Psilotrichum, Amarautus, Pouzolsia,
Potomorpbe, Drymispermum, Elaeagnus, Ephedra, Ouvirandra, Aponogeton, Hydrocharis,
Hydrilla (Udora), Ruppia, Cyanotis, Pollia, Oberonia, Saccolabium, Pholidota, Bolbo-
phyllum, Erythrochis, Phajus, Musa, Typhonium, Costus, Zingiber, Alpinia, Caryota,
Cocus, I' revcinetia, Oryza, Polypogon, Selerachne, Ceratopteris, Hypolytrum, Antro-
phyum, Meniscium, Plelmiuthostachys, Cyathea.

The genera of Mosses and Algae first rendered known through our collections by the
monographic labors of other authors have beeu omitted.

New Genera : Ancana, I itzalania, Wilkiea, Palmeria, Tristicbocalyx, Selwynia,
Sarcopetalum, Hymenosporum, Cadellia, Emblingia, Apophyllum, Streptothamnus,
Howittia, Lysiosepalum, Hannafordia, Dicarpidium, Brombya, Halfordia, Coatesia,
Bosistoa, Disticliostemon, Owenia, Hearnia, Monococcus, Emmenosperma, Hedraianthera,
Neorcepera, Petalostigma, Synostemon, Gillbeea, Cuttsia, Macropteranthus, Gunnia, Diplo-
lobium, Barklya, Archidendron, Nematophyllum, Osbornia, Lysicarpus, Phymatocarpus,
Atkinsonia, Dichopetalum, Pogonolobus, Hodgkinsonia, Mackinlaya, Nothocittus (N.
Irvingii, F. M.), Polycalymma, Eriocklamys, Trichanthodium, Minuranthus, Pleuropappus,
Lachnothalamus, Lamprochlsena, Elachopappus, Cyaihopappus, Oliganthemum, Haickeria,
Spir opodium, Cheiroloma, Ixiochlamys, Ethuliopsis, Elachantlius, Diodontium, Pentalepis,
Acomis, Acanthocladium, Kippistia, Coleocoma, Wittsteinia, Michiea, Earlia, Maccoya,
Denisonia, Newcastlia, Bunnya, Duttonia, Sentis, Haussmannia, Faradaya, Bulweria,
Rhyncharshena, Cardwellia, Artlirotrichum, Babbagia, Sclerochlamys, Osteocarpum, Dis-
socarpum, Octoclinis, Maundia, Arthrochilus, Agi'ostocrinum, Hodgsoniola, Petermannia,
Reedia, Juncella.

The definition of about 20 additional genera, either quite unknown or additional to
Australian generic forms, is reserved for the fifth volume of the Fragments.

The existence in Australia of fifteen ordinal or subordinal groups of plant s, either
not noticed before, or without specific limitation ot their Australian representatives only
indicated, was elucidated by the researches of this office. These groups are Oclinacese,
Erythroxyleae, Hippocrates;, Brexiacete, Ilicinece, Homalinese, Ceratophyllese, Alangiacese,
Styraceac, Vacciniem, Hvdrophylleae, Ehcagnese, Ephedrem, Musacese, Pontederiacea;. To
these might be added Trithuriacese, a group altogether here, for the first time defined, and
perhaps also Orobanchese, inasmuch as Orobanche cernua has become naturalized since a
series of years in widely distant parts of South and West Australia. Further pliytological
investigations of North-East Australia will undoubtedly add to this series members of
other orders, especially of Indian type, as yet not recognized in the great complex of forms
of vegetable life in this part of the globe.

Hitherto approximately 2,000 of the 10,000 plants, which, with exclusion of Fungi,
constitute the total flora of Australia, received their systematic position and exact appella-
tion by the independent investigations of this department. If for our pliytological
museum, which is already unique in the southern hemisphere, additionally the private
herbarium of one of our leading botanical celebrities could be secured, a herbarium rich
m autograplucal samples of such plants as were connected with the writings of authors
published during the first decennial periods of this century, we would then possess a
botanical institution second to but very few of the great metropolitan state herbaria of
Europe, and excelling all in its Australian division. „

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The botanical library, which I had formed since a series of years, has now passed
over permanently to the department. It comprises predominantly such a selection of
books as are needed for local investigations into our flora. Had these works been scat-
tered it would have been difficult, expensive and tedious to restore a similar collection.
It consists of 1,086, to a large extent costly, volumes, and of many hundred smaller
publications. A brief catalogue is appended to this document.

Though it involved many years' toilsome exertions as well in the field as in the
study to advance our botanical department to its present position, it remains gratifying
to reflect, that the labors have not been in vain, and that for independent phytographic
researches now in Australia more extensive means and greater facilities exist than in
many of the metropolitan institutions of an analogous tendency in Europe.

I have the honor to be, Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

FERD. MUELLER, M.D., F.R.S.,

Government Botanist for Victoria ,
and Director of the Botanic Garden of Melbourne.

The Honorable the Chief Secretary,

&c., &c., &c.

SEEDS OR PLANTS OF SPECIAL VALUE OR INTEREST WHICH WERE RECEIVED
FROM THE FOLLOWING DONORS SINCE THE ISSUE OF THE LAST REPORT.

From the Imperial Acclimation Society of France, seeds from India, Japan and Algiers.

From the Agricultural and Horticultural Society, Punjaub, large assortment of seeds, especially Indian
Pines.

From Professor Dr. Th. Anderson, Calcutta, large collection of pine and other seeds of the Indian
Highlands, also Wardian cases with tropical plants.

From His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly, Mauritius, several Wardian cases containing tropical plants.
From W. Blanchard, Esq., Consul for the United States of America in Melbourne, seeds of eminently
valuable North American forest trees.

From the Botanical Gardens of Adelaide, Berlin, Brisbane, Calcutta, Capetown, Copenhagen, Hamburg,
Hobarton, Lyon, Montpellier, Moscow, Nizza, Otago, Palermo, Paris, Petersburg, Sydney and
Vienna, considerable collections of seeds.

From the British Consul at Arica, seeds of the Peruvian tree-cotton.

From J. H. Butler, Esq., Calcutta, numerous Wardian cases with Indian plants.

From His Excellency Sir William Denison, Madras, Wardian cases with Cinchona plants and Orchids.
From W. Glen, Launceston, case with Tasmanian plants.

From Messrs. Haagc and Schmidt, Erfurt, splendid collections of seeds, and a large assortment of Cactus
and other succulents.

From Mr. W. Hall, Williamstown, large quantity of Dahlias.

From Sir William Hooker, Kcw, large collection of seeds and some Wardian cases with ornamental plants.
From Messrs. Huber Freres, Hyeres, acorns of Mediterranean oaks and other seeds of valuable plants.
From Mr. T. Hulke, New Plymouth, Wardian case with New Zealand plants.

From Mr. McKen, Botanical Gardens, Port Natal, Encephalartos and other plants of special interest.
From S. W. Moore, San Francisco, important contributions of seeds of Californian Pines.

From Mons. Pancher, New Caledonia, several Wardian cases with valuable New Caledonian plants and
seeds locally collected.

From Professor Dr. Phillinpi, Santiago, Wardian case with Peruvian plants.

From Mons. Prosp. Hamel, Paris, numerous valuable collections of seeds and a consignment of fruit-
and other trees.

From Rev. James Smith, Delhi, valuable seed collections, including large quantities of Deodars and
other Asiatic Conifers.

From Mrs. Stewart, Fingal, Tasmania, Wardian case with ornamental plants.

From Dr. G. II. K. Thwaites, Ceylon, Cinchona and other valuable plants.

From Professor Todaro, of Palermo, valuable collections of succulent plants.

From Mons. T. Tyeamann, Java, collection of seeds and plants.

From Messrs. Vilmorin, Andrieux and Co., Paris, valuable collections of seeds.

From Messrs. Veitch and Son, London, Wardian cases with new and interesting plants.

From W. A. Virgoe, Esq., Brighton, donation of spotted Aroids and other ornamental stove plants.
From Mr. W. W alker, San Francisco, seeds of Californian Pines.

From Edw. Wilson, Esq., numerous consignments of seeds.

From Mr. H. Winterstein, Alexandria, large collections of seeds of useful or ornamental plants.

Total number of Wardian cases received, 43.

CONTRIBUTORS OF DRIED PLANTS TO THE BOTANICAL MUSEUM.

Abbott, F., Hobart Town.

Allitt, W., Portland.

Anderson, Dr., Calcutta.

Areschoug, Professor J. E., Upsala.
Atkinson, Miss Louisa, Fernhurst, New
South Wales.

Baudinot., E., Kent’s Group.

Berlin Botanical Museum.

Bolander, Dr. H. M., San Francisco.
Bordere, A., Paris.

Bowman, E., Rockhampton.

Boyle, David, Mulgrave.

Cadell, Captain.

Chamberlain, J., Ballarat.

Clifton, G., Dartmoor.

Cosson, Dr., Paris.

Decaisnc, Professor, Paris.

Dickie, Professor, Aberdeen.

Dorsey, F., Suttor River.

Draege, W.

Durieu deMaisonneuve, Profess., Bordeaux.
Dutton, the Hon. Francis, Adelaide.
Fereday, Rev. J., Georgetown.

Ilaast, Dr., Christchurch.

Hall, W., Portland.

Harnman, F., Gaffney’s Creek.

Hance, Dr., Hong Kong.

Hannaford, Sam., Launceston.

Hardy, J., Wellington.

Hawkins, M., Belfast.

The reciprocal transmissions of plants from
additions to our ow n collections are secured.

Hector, Dr., Dunedin.

Henderson, Miss E., Phillip Island.

Hill, Walter, Brisbane.

Hillebraudt, Dr., Honolulu.

Hooker, Sir William, Kew.

Jardinc, T., Somerset.

Lefevre, G., Paris.

Leigbton, the Rev. A., Shrewsbury.
Lenormand, R., Vire.

McGowan, Sam.

Martin, I)r., Champion Bay.

Maxwell, G., Albany.

Miquel, Professor, Utrecht.

Moore, C., Sydney.

Pancher, Mons., New Caledonia.

Parceval de Grandmaison, Paris.

Phillippi, Dr., Santiago.

Regel, Dr., Petersburg.

Schro?der, E., Castlemaine.

Scott, B., Caraperdown.

Sonder, Dr. W., Hamburg.

Stuart, C., Tenterfield.

Thozet, A., Rockhampton.

Thwaites, Dr. G. n. K., Ceylon.
Tranqueville, Mons. A. de, Paris.

Travers, W., Christchurch.

Tyesman, J., Java.

Walcott, Pemb., Warren River.

Woolls, W., Parramatta.

our Museum continue extensive, and thereby vast

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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS OF PLANTS AND SEEDS.

A’Beckett, the Hon. T.

Acclimation Society, Melbourne.
Adamson, W.

Allitt, W., Portland.

Anderson, Colonel, South Yarra.
Atkinson, W., Brisbane.

Atkinson. T. J.

Ausfeld, II., Arnstadt.

Autard, B. d\ Mauritius.

Bagshaw, W M Emerald Hill.

Barry, His Honor Sir Redmond.

Beach, Dr., Bombay.

Begg. A,, Dunedin.

Behr, Dr. II.. San Francisco.

Benison, P., Prahran.

Bernays, L. A., Brisbane.

Beveridge, P., Swan Hill.

Bicknell, F., Dunedin.

Blathesly, E.

Blow, W.

Board of Agriculture.

Bogie, W., South Yarra.

Bookey, Captain, Richmond.

Bosisto, J.. Richmond.

Bowman, E., Rockhampton.

Boxwcll, H., Brighton.

Boyle, D., Mulgravc.

Boyne, G., Feejee.

Brandis, G., Enfield.

Bremer. G. W., San Francisco.

Brew ster, R., Penola.

Brewster, F., Sandridge.

Brown, J., Como.

Bruce, A.

Brunning, G., St. Kilda.

Bryan, •)., Brighton.

Bucknall, — , Oarisbrook.

Bull, Captain, Castlemaine.

Butchard, James.

Cadell, Captain, Auckland.

Cairns, C.

Campbell, D. S.

Cariza, H., Stawell.

Chambers, Hugh, Toorak.

Champ, Colonel, Pentridge.

Chapman, J., Colac.

Christy, W., Toorak.

Clarke, Dr., Sandridge.

Clarke, Rev.

Oleghorn, Dr., Calcutta.

Cobkam, Mrs.. Sydney.

Cole, Honorable Captain, Brighton.
Coller, David.

Connor, David, Bunecp Creek.

Coppin, George.

Crawford, Rev. C., Castlemaine.

Crinkle, T.

Curr, R.

Dacomb, W., Portland.

Dardell, J., Batesford.

Davenport, the Hon. Samuel, Adelaide.
Dorsen, J.

Dunn, E.

Dui ieu de Maisonneuve, Bordeaux.
Edwards, J., St. Hilda.

Embling. Dr. T.

Everard, J., Dun oily.

Fawcett, — , Richmond River.
Ferguson. W., Flemington.

Fisher, Marm., Dunkeld.

Flieger, J., Mount Moliagul.

F oxton , Mrs.. Loddon.

Francis, — , Cliristchurch .

French, Chari.

Fulton, F. W., Prahran.

Georgeson, Mrs., South Yarra.
Gerhard, G., Sale.

Glass, Hugh, Flemington.

Goodwin, the Rev., Darling Junction.
Graigncr, L.

Grey, His Excellency Sir Geo.
Grazebrook, J., South Yarra.

Hall, J., Hastings River.

Hamilton, — , Glenaroua.

Handasyde and McMillan.

Hardman, J., Emerald Hill.

Hardy, W„ Wellington.

Harrington, F., London.

Harris, G., South Yarra.

Harris ou, E.

Hebert, A.

Heldreich, Dr. Theod. von, Athen.

II el pm an, Captain, Warrnambool.
Henderson and Son, London.

Henfray, J.

Heyde, W. von der, South Yarra.

Hill, — , Auckland.

Holdsw’ortli, J., Sandhurst.

Holt, W., Boroondara.

Homfray, R. R., Perth.

Hommel and Co.

Horne, R.

Horticultural Society of Launceston.
Howitt, Dr. E.

Hyndman, W.

Ireland, Hon. R.

James, Phillip, Sydney.

Joachimi, G.

Johnson, R. and B., Thomastown.
Johnston, T., Hawthorn.

Jones, P. F., Williams town.

J ones, Lloyd, Avenel.

Joshua Brothers.

Kampf, F. A., Leipzig.

Kellaway, W.

Kenw orthy, Dr., Ballarat.

Kern, J., Sandhurst.

Knox, J.

Kramer, F., Sandhurst.

La Moile.

Lang and Co., Ballarat.

Langley, J.

Latin, W.

Law, Somner and Co.

Lejourdan, A., Marseille.

Levi Brothers.

Lewus, G. L.

McFadzan, D.

McGowan, Sam.

McGrady, G.

McIntyre, Duncan.

Malpus, R., on board the Great Britain
Manyfold, Mrs., South Yarra.
Martichou. Pere et Fils, Cannes.
Maupers, F., Carlton.

Maxwell, G., Albany.

Merrett, J., Malvern.

Moore, Dr., Dublin.

Moore, Dr., Adelaide.

Murray, P., Twofold Bay.

Murray, Andr.

Neate, A., Collingwood.

Noble, Mrs., Brisbane.

Nott, Mrs., Maldon.

Osborne, J. W.

Pamplin, W., London.

Panton, — , Sandhurst.

Perry, nis Lordship the Bishop.

Perry, J.

Perry, R. W., London.

Petermann. Dr. Aug., Gotha.

PifFen, H., Auckland.

Play ford, C., Stawell.

Politz, J., Richmond.

Poore, Rev. — , St. Kilda.

Pugh, Dr.

Ralston, A., Sydney.

Ramsay. John, M.L.A.

Raven, Mrs., Studley Park.

Reynolds, J. N.

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Richardson, A., Cape York.

Eiddeil, C., M.L.A., Mount Macedon.
Robertson, Mrs. Colonel, Hexham.
Robinson, His Excellency Sir H., Ceylon.
Ronalds, W., Eichmond.

Eo8s, Mrs., Hexham.

Eoxburgh, A., Deniliquin.

Eule, J., Eichmond.

Eusden, G. W.

Sangster, J., Como.

Schoenfeld, F.

Schuter, J., Portland.

Scott, J., Hawthorn.

Smith, G., Ballarat.

Smith, J. T., M.L.A.

Smith, Dr. L. L., M.L.A.

Smith, Captain, R.N.

Smith, William.

Smith and Sons, Riddell’s Creek.
Stanbridge, W r ., Daylesford.

Stephen, G. M.

Stewart, W. J.

Stone, C., Brighton.

Strachan, Hon. J. F., Geelong.
Stronach, — , South Yarra.
Stutzer, J., M.A.

Sugar Company, Sandridge.
Swan, J.

Symmonds, M., Nortlicote.
Taylor, W., Toorak.

Thomson, W., Ipswich.

Thozet, A., Rockhampton.
Tierney, Mrs. Dr.

Travers, W., Christchurch.
Tullet, H., St. Hilda.

Vickery, J., Sydney.

Webster, W., Eichmond.
Wentler, A.

Wilhelmi, C., South Yarra.
Wilkie, Hon. Dr. David.
Wilkinson, Eev., Williamstown.
Wilson, S., South Yarra.
Wilson, H., Port Elizabeth.
Wilson, W., Mauritius.
Wingfield, J., Inglewood.

Youl, J. A., Hobart Town.

INDEX OF EMINENTLY VALUABLE, CONSPICUOUS OR RARE PLANTS SPECIALLY

NUMBERED ON THE PLAN.

1. Photinia serrulata.

2. Hoveuia dulcis.

3. Leucadendron argenteum.

4. Encephalartos Denisonii.

5. Panax papyri fer.

6. Pittosporum Colensoi.

7. Ficus Indica.

8. Quercus lan ci folia.

9. Quercus Eobur Thomasii.

10. Ulmus Chinensis.

11. Pittosporum pliillyroides.

12. Eremophila longifolia.

13. Camellia Japonica.

14. Cryptomeria Japonica.

15. Eucalyptus occidentalis.

16. Encephalartos Preissii.

17. Panax dendroides.

18. Eriobotrya Japonica.

19. Virgilia Capensis.

20. Notehea ligustrina.

21. Hakea Baxteri.

22. Acmenc floribunda.

23. Citrus medica.

24. Acacia raelauoxylon.

25. Hakea purpurea.

26. Eremophila bignoniflora.

27. Podocarpus Totara.

28. Exocarpus cupressiformis.

29. Araucaria Bidwillii.

30. Pircunia dioica.

31. Smilax aspera.

32. Musa Chinensis.

33. Myrtus communis.

34. Hakea cucullata.

35. Arbutus Unedo.

36. Araucaria excelsa.

37. Araucaria Cunninghami.

38. Musa paradisiaca.

39. Cupressus torulosa.

40. Pinus Deodara.

41. Laurus Camphora.

42. Cedrela Taona.

43. CeraLonia Siliqua.

44. Plicenix dactylifera.

45. Morus nigra.

46. Eucalyptus rostrata.

47. Hakea eucalyptoides.

48. Bambusa arundinacea.

49. Protea mellifera.

50. Ercilla spicata.

51. Musa Banksii.

52. Liquidambar styraciflua.

53. Juglans nigra.

54. Musa textilis.

55. Quercus coccifera.

No, 72 — c.

56. Cordyline Australis.

57. Hymenanthera Banksii.

58. Yucca gloriosa.

59. Doryanthes excelsa.

60. Sorbus aucuparia.

61. W r ellingtonia gigantea.

62. Pittosporum bicolor.

63. Ficus macrophylla.

64. Podocarpus elata.

65. Laurus nobilis.

| 06. Psidium pyriferum.

; 67. Carya amara.

68. Flindersia Australis.

69. Acacia Julibrissin.

70. Eucalyptus cornuta.

71. Eucalyptus Mahagoni.

72. yEsculus Pavia.

73. Pinus longifolia.

74. Boron ia megastigma.

75. Aberia CafFra.

76. Pruuus spinosa.

77. Canotlius thyrsifiorus.

78. Leucadendron grandifiorum.

79. Encephalartos Altensteinii.

80. Encephalartos Lehmanui.

81. Encephalartos spiralis.

82. Hedera erassifolia.

83. CofTea Arahica.

84. Cinchona succirubra.

85. Dacrydium Frankliui.

86. Ficus Australis.

87. Azalea Indica.

88. Opuntia Tuna.

89. Opuntia coccinellifera.

90. Eucalyptus tetragona.

91. Widdringtonia juniperoides.

92. Aristolocliia Sipho.

93. Botryodendron latifolium.

94. Quercus glabra.

95. Acacia Farnesiana.

96. Cory nocarpus kevigatus.

| 97. Callitris cupressiformis.

98. Arundo Donax variegata.

99. Olearia argophylla.

1 100. Hakea cucullata.

101. Wistaria Chinensis.

102. Maclura aurantiaca.

103. Melicytus ramiflorus.

104. Duboisia myoporoides.

105. Araucaria imbricata.

106. Strelitzia augusta.

107. Phoenix silvestris.

108. Baloghia lucida.

109. Dicksonia antarctica.

110. Alsophila Australis.

j 111. Castanea vesca.

112. Brackyckiton acerifolium.

113. Bromelia silvestris.

114. Alectryon excelsura.

115. Eoyeuia lucida.

116. Celastrus scandens.

117. Berberis aristata.

118. Mahouia Aquifolium.

119. Callitris verrucosa.

I 120. Quercus rubra.

121. Eucalyptus cory nocalyx.

| 122. Quercus coccinea.

123. Angophora lanceolata.

124. Pericampylos incanus.

125. Grevillca Hillii.

126. Fraxinus Ornus.

127. Quercus iEgilops.

128. Quercus alba.

129. Brackycliiton Delabechei.

130. Tetragonia implexicoma.

131. Disemma coccinea.

132. Castanospermum Australe.

133. Livistonia Australis.

134. Melaleuca stypkeloides.

135. Melaleuca genistifolia.

136. Ficus elastiea.

137. Eugenia Ugni.

138. Jambosa Australis.

139. Hakea Victoria?.

140. Vitis Baudiniana.

141. Agonis flexuosa.

142. Aleurites triloba.

143. Exocarpus pendula.

144. Ela?oc.arpus cyaneus.

145. Xantkorrhoea Australis.

146. Callitris quadrivalvis.

147. Arundo conspicua.

148. Olearia Traversii.

i 149. Callitris Macleyana.

150. Dammara robusta.

| 151. vSyncarpia lanrifolia.

! 152. Arundo Gynerium.

153. Callitris Artinostrobus.

154. Amyris terebintkifolia.

155. Pinus palustris.

156. Banksia grandis.

157. Eucalyptus eitriodora.

158. Grevillea segmentosa.

159. Fagus Cunninghami.

100. Eubus fruticosus.

161. Panax el eg an s.

162. Broussonetia papyrifera.

163. Morus rubra.

164. Coccoloba platyclada.

165. Populus Canadensis.

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KEY TO THE ORDERS OF PLANTS REPRESENTED IN THE CLASS GKOUND.

Thalamiflorce.

1. Ranunculacese.

2. Dilleniacete, Menispermete.

3. Magnoliacere.

4. Sapindacese.

5. CistinesD, Papaveraccso.

6. Buettneriaceao, Sterculiacese.

7. Malvaceae.

8. Berberideae, Oxalidese.

9. Geraniaceae.

10. Polygalea).

11. Ternstroemiaceac, Hypericinese

12. Aurantiacea?.

13. Rutacea).

14. Pittosporea?.

15. Caryophylleae, Elaeocarpese.

16. Cruciferse.

17. Yiolarinae, Tamariscineae.

18. Tiliaceae, Frank eniaceae.

19. Acerineae.

20. Meliaceae.

Calycijlorce.

21. Philadelpheae, Calycantbeae.
22-26. Rosacea).

27. Saxifrageae, Lytlirarieae.

28. Haloragea?, Onagreae.

29. Kubiaceae.

30. Euphorbiaceae.

31. Ribesiaceae.

32. Dipsaceae.

33. Ficoideae.

34-36. Composita?.

37-39. Myrtacea?.

40. Rliamnaceae.

41-43. Papilionaceae.

44. Mimoseae.

45. Caesalpineae.

46. Umbelliferae, Araliaceae.

47. Caprifoliaceae, Passifloreae.

Corollijlorce .

48. Asclepiadeae.

49. Apocyneae.

50. Jasminea?.

51. Bignoniaceae.

52. Genfcianeae, Loganiaceae.

53. Campanulacese, Goodeniaceae.

54. Ericineae, Epacrideae.

55-56. Ilicineae.

57-58. Oleaceae.

59. Ebenacea?.

60-62. Solaneae.

63. Myrsinea?.

64. Scroplmlarineae.

65. Myoporiueae.

66. Acauthacea?.

67. Plumbaginea).

68. Yerbenacea?.

69. Labiatse.

70. Plantagineoe, Primulaceae.

71. Borragineae.

72. Polemoniaceae.

Monoch lamydece.
73-80. Coniferse.

81. Cycadeae.

82. Thymelea?.

83. Nyctagineae.

84. Laurineae.

85. Casuarineae.

86. Urticeae.

87-88. Proteaceae.

89. Salicinea).

90. Polygonea), Elaeagneae.

91. Cupuliferae.

92. Moreae.

CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE

Abhandlungen der schlesischen Gesellschaft fur
Cultur.

Acbarius, Mcthodus Lichenum.

Supplementuin.

Ackermann, Natur der Gewachse.

Agardli, Genera et Species Algarum.

La Physiologic Yegetale.

Theoria Systematis Plantarum.

Oefver de Capska arterna of slaegted Irideae.
Aiton, Hortus Kevrensis. 3 vols. 2nd ed. 5 vols.
Epitome.

Anderson, Acantliacea).

Flora of Lucknow.

Florula Adensis.

On Spha?rocoma.

Notes on the Genus Lasyanthus.

Annalen dcs Wiener Museums.

Annales Botan. Society Canada. 2 numb.

des Sciences Naturelles. 2nd series, 1834 to
1843 ; 3rd series, 1844 to 1853 ; 4th series,
1854 to 1864. 58 vols.

Appelius, Leitfaden zur Behandlung der Samen.
Areschoug, Algae Scandinaviae.

Laerbok i Botanik.

Phycaeac Novae.

Autenriet, De Discriraine Sexuali in Seminibus
apparent! s.

Babington, Flora of the Channel Islands.
Backhause, Yisit to the Australian Colonies.
Baillon, Adansonia.

Buxaceae.

Etude gdnorale des Euphorbiacees.
Euphorbiacea?.

Loranthaceoe.

L’Orgauogeuie dc Callitriche.

Balfour, Classbook of Botany.

Outlines of Botany.

Aconitum ferox.

Botan. Excursion to Braemar.

Botan. Excursion to Switzerland.

Dry Eot in Timber.

Fruit of Clerodendron Thomsonia?.

New Species of Clerodendron.

List of Medicinal and Poison Plants in Bot.
Gard. Edinburgh.

Notice on Open Air Yegetation in Bot.
Gard. Edinburgh.

BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT, MELBOURNE.

Balfour, Notice of New Plants.

Observations on Temperature.

Banks, Catalogus Bibliothecae Botanicae.

Bartling, Dissertatio Geographico-Botanica.
Bassinet Hedy sar um .

Bauer, Illustrationes Florae Novae Hollandicae.
Bauliin, Historia Plantarum.

Beale, How to Work with the Microscope.
Beauvois, Agrostographie.

Beddome, The Ferns of Southern India.

The Ferns of British India.

Belanger, Yoyago aux Indes.

-Bennett, Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australia.
Wanderings in New South Wales.
Bentham, Genera allied to Olacinea?.

Handbook of British Flora.

Flora Hongkongensis.

Flora Australiensis.

and Hooker, Genera Plantarum.

Bergner, Schwamme dor Schweitz.

Berkeley, Outlines of British Fungologie.

Introduction to Cryptogamic Botany.
Bicheno, On Juncus.

BischolT, Handbuch der Systemkunde und Ter-
minologie. 3 vols.

Blanco, Flora de la Filipinas. 1st and 2ud editions.
Bluff and Fingerhuth, Compendium Flora) Ger-
manicfp. 2 vols.

Blume, Flora Java?. (Complete.)

Museum Bofcanieum Lugdunense.
Bocquillon, Yerbenaceje.

Bondfc, Dissertatio dc Cortice GeofFrese.

Bonpland, Monographia Melastomarum.
Bonplandia, 1853 to 1862.

Booth, Monography of Carex.

Rory and Durieu, Exploration Botanique de l’Al-
gerie. Libr. 16 & 17.

Botanischer Garten zu Breslau.

Garten zu Petersburg.

Kew Garten.

Braun, Abnorme Blattbilduug von Irina glabra.
Characeae aus Columbien.

On Isoetes.

Isoetes of North America.

Ueber Marsilea und Pilularia.

Zwei deutsche Isoetes.

Parthenogenesis .

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Braun, Polyembryonie.

Bede iiber Bedeutung der Morphologic.
Breynius, Cenluria Priina.

Brogniart, Fragments de la Nouvelle Caledonie.
Sur les Granules Spermatiques des Vege-
taux.

Considerations sur la Flora de la Nouvelle
Caledonie.

Brown, Botany of Terra Australis.

Botanische Sehriften. 5 vols.

On Buxbaumia.

Prodromus Flora) Novre Hollandise.
Supplementum.

Buek, Index ad De Candollei Prodromum,
Bulletins de la Soc. Botan. de France.

de la Soc. d’Acelimat. de Bourbon,
de la Soc. Imperiale de Moscou. (Fragment.)
Burmann, Flora Indica.

Thesaurus Zeylanicus.

Buxbaum, Centuruc I.-V.

Carpenter, The Microscope.

Carron, Narrative of the Expedition of Kennedy.’
Catalogue of the Victorian Exhibition of 1861, with
Essays.

of the Melbourne Public Library, and Sup-
plement.

of Natural and Industrial Products of New
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Cavanilles, Dissertationes Botanic®, I.-X.
Chapmann, Flora of the South. United States.
Chatin, Yalisneria spiralis.

Choisy, Convolvulacese.

Guttifer®.

Genres des Guttiferes.

Hydroleaee®,

Nyctagine®.

Clarke’s Southern Gold Fields.

Cleghorn, Excursion to the Valleys of Giri, Pabur
and Tonse.

Principal Plants of the Sutlej Valley.
Memor. on Timber from the Indus.

Clusius, Plantfc Exotica:.

Ilistoria Plantarum.

Colebrook, Indian Mcnisperme®.

Select Indian Plants.

Terebinthace®.

Colla, Illustration es.

Colladon, Les Casses.

Columna, ExQpcanc.

Commelyn, Hortus Amsfcelodamensis.

leones Plant.irum Indi®.

Cosson, Especes Nouvelles d’Algerie.

Catalogue des Plantes de Cheronese.
Florula Juvenalis.

Appendix Florula) Juvenalis.

Flore des Environs de Paris.

Synopsis de Flore de Paris.

Genera Nova Algerensia.

Le Genre Hohenackeria.

Descriptions des Plantes de la Sahara.
Cruse, Rubiace® Capenses.

Cultivation of Orleans Staple Cotton.
Cunningham, Remarks of the Vegetation of Terra
Australis.

Curtis, Sims and Hooker, Botanical Magazine. 72
vols.

Dalzel and Gibson, Bombay Flora..

Darwin, Fertilization of Orchids.

Decaisne, Sur la Classification des Algues et Coral-
lines. Paris, 1842.

De Candolle, Prodromus, 1824 to 1864.

Systema Naturale. 2 vols.

Plantes Bares.

Rapport des Plantes,

Memoire sur le Regne Vegetal.
Geographic Botanique.

Wirkungen der Sonnenstrahlen.

Myrtace®.

Leguminos®.

Sur le Fatiola.

Connar^es et Saccolabees.

Ternstrogmiaee®.

Anonace®.

No. 72— c, 2.

De Candolle, Ochnace® et Simarube®.
Lytkrariaceae.

Combretaceae.

Delessert, leones Select®. 5 vols.

Denkschrift der Kdnigl. Bayer. Gesellscbaft.
Dennstedt, Schlussel zum Hortus Malabaricus.
Derbes, Memoire de la Physiologie des Algues.
Desfontaine, Flora Atlantica.

Choix des Plantes.

Histoire des Arbres.

Dietrich, Das Wichtigste aus dem Pflanzenreiche.
Flora Universalis. (The last fascicles.)
Plant® GTyptogamic® Jenenses.

Synopsis Plantarum. 5 vols.

Dodon®us, Stirpium Historia.

Don, Gardening Dictionary. 4 vols.

Prodromus Flora) Nepalensis.

Indian Gentiane®.

Dozi, De Plagiochila Sandei.

Dunal, Solane®.

Duperry, Voyage autour du Monde, botanique.
Dutrochet, De PAceroissement des Arbres.

Ecklon and Zeyher, Enumeratio Plantar. Afric®
australis.

Edwards and Lindlcy, Botanical Register. 25 vols.
Endlicher, Flora Norfolkiana.

Iconographia Generum Plantarum.

Genera Plantarum.

Nova Genera Plantarum.

Mantissa).

Novarum Stirpium Decades.

Synopsis Coniferarum.

Engelmann, Cuscut®.

Esenbeck, Calycanthus.

GeneraPlantarum Flor® Germanic®.
Solanum Wightianum.

Fenzl, Reisebericht Reitz’s.

Ueber Lecanora ventosa.

Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium.

Pemptas Stirpium Capensium.

Moristrose Bluethen der Rosa centifolia.
Nova Species et Geuera L T mbelliferarum.
Differential Character of Cypcrus.
Pflanzengeographische Skizze.

Stratonomic.

Mollugine®.

Stellang der Gattung Oxera.

Field, Geographical Memoirs of New South Wales
and Tasmania.

Fischer, Beitrag zur Botan. Systematik.

Synopsis Aslragalorum.

Flora, Zeitschrift far Botanik, 1828-47.

Flora Danica. 10 vols.

Florist’s Guide.

Journal.

Forster, Beschreibung del* Pflanzen der Slidsee.
Charactere3 Generum Plantarum.
Prodromus Plantarum Australium.

Fries, Surmria Vegetabilium Scandinavia).
G®rtner, De Fructibus et Seminibus.
Gartenbau-VereinB M ittheilungen, Petersburg.
Gay, Monographic de Tribe deLasiopetalee.
Buttneriace®.

Geiger, Pharmaeeutische Botanik. 2 vols.

Ergiinzung von Dierbach.

Genera et Species Plant, minus cognitarum in
II or to Bcroliuensi cultarum.

Geschicbte des Hamburger botanischen Gartens.
Gibbes, Accentuation of Names.

Gmelin, Linndi Systema Natur®.

Gceppert, Dracsenae.

Bo tan i s cb e M i 1 1 heilun gen .
Warmeentwickelung in Pflanzen.
Wegweiser zum Botan. Garten von Breslau.
OlBcinelle Gewftchse.

and Cohn, Sektions-Bericht der Schles.
Gesellschaft.

Gottsche, Synopsis Hcpaticarum.

Uebersicht der Synopsis.

Gravenhorst, De Natura Vegetabili Gorgoniarum.
Gray, Botanical Contributions.

Botanical Memoranda.

Botanical Memoirs.

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Gray, Specimens of North American Plants.
Chloris Boreali- Americana.

Plant® Wrigktian®.

Plant® Not® Thurberian®.

How do Plants Grow.

Flora of the North United States.

On Fav®a and Rliytidandra.

Botany of United States Explor. Expedition.
Greville, Scottish Flora. 5 vols.

Griesebach, Plant® Wrigktian® Cub® Oriental.

Bericht ubcrGeograph. und System-Botanik.
Griffith, leones Plantarum Asiaticarum.

leones Plantarum Asiaticarum, Cryptogam®.

Notul®.

Posthumous Papers.

Private Notes.

and Henfrey, Micrographic Dictionary.
Greenland, Lbs Organes glanduleux.

Sur la F^condation de quelques Algues.
Guillemin, Archive Botanique.

leones Lithographic®.

H®cker, Liibeckische Flora.

Hamilton, Commentary on Rkede’s Hortus Mala-
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Ilampe, leones Muscorum.

Hanee, Flora Sinica.

H anbury, Notes on Chinese Materia Medica.
Hannaford, Jottings in Australia.

Transactions Hortic. Soc. Western District.
Hanstein iiber Marsilea salvatrix.

Harvey, Thesaurus Capensis.

Nereis Boreali- Americana.

Nereis Australis.

Phyeologia Australis. 5 vols.

Characters of New Alg®.

Index Geucrum Algarum.
and Sonder, Flora Capensis. 3 vols.
Hasskarl, Plant® Javanic®.

Hedwig. De Fibris Vegetabilium.

Observationes Botanic®.

Heldreich die Nutzpllanzen Griechenlands.
die Tulpen Griechenlands.

Zierptlanzen der griechischeu Flora.

Hegel meyer, Cal lit riche.

Henfrey, Botany.

Botanical Gazette.

Herder, Reisen in den Siiden von Ost-Sibirien.

Botaniscke Abtheilung, Monopetale®.
Heritier (L’), Cornus.

Herr’s Anleitung zar Botanik.

Hessler, De Timrnia.

Heward, Observat. on Collect, of Ferns from
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Hoffmann, De Usu Lichenum.

Hooker, Niger Flora.

Exotic Flora.

Botanical Miscellany. 3 vols.

Companion to Botan. Magazine. 2 vols.

J., Antarctic Voyage. 2 vols.

J., Flora of New Zealand. 2 vols.

J., Flora of Tasmania. 2 vols.

J., Handbook on the New Zealand Flora.
British Flora.

leones Plantarum. 10 vols.

Journal of Botany. 4 vols.

London Journal of Botany. 7 vols.

Kew Miscellany. 9 vols.

Guide to Kew Garden.

J., and Thomson, Flora Indica.

Genera Filicum.

Filices Exotic®.

Species Filicum. 5 vols.

Garden Ferns.

Century of Ferns.

Musci Exotici. 2 vols.

Kew Museum.

Reports on the Royal Garden of Kew.

J., Elor® Tasmania Spicilegium.

Horne m ann, Hortus Botanicus Hafniensis.
Hornschuch, Metamorphose niederer Gewiichse.
Horsfield, Plant® Javanic® rariores.

Horticultural Magazine.

Hortus Elthamensis.

Host, Flora Austriaca.

Huegel, Enumeratio Plantarum Australi® occi-
dentalis.

Humboldt, De Distribution Geograpkica Plan-
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Iluser, De Caricc arenaria.

Jack, On Cyrtandra.

Jahresberickt der scklesisch. Gesellschaft fiir Cul-
tur.

Jessen, Lebensdauer der Pflanzen.

Monographia Generis Prasiol®.

Botanik aer Gegenwart und Vorzeits.
Johnston, Magazine of Zoology and Botany.
Journal of Natural History, Boston.

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of Linneau Society, 1857-1865.

Jullien, La Rose.

Jungkuhn, Javanese Balanophore®.

Jussieu, Botanique.

Malpighiace®.

Meliacdes.

Opercularia. *

Tentamen Euphorbiacearum.

K®mpfer, leones Plantarum Japonicarum.
Karsten, Parthenogenesis.

Kelly, The Vine in Australia.

Kippist, On Acradenia.

On Jansonia.

Kitted, Deutschland’s Flora.

Klotzsch, Aristolocki® des Berliner Museums.
Tricocce®.

Koch, Synopsis Flor® Germanic® et Helvetic®.
Konig, Getreidearten.

and Sims, Annals of Botany.

Krauss, Corallineen und Zoopkyten der Siidsee.
Kuetzing, Synopsis Diatomearum.

Kunth, Enumeratio Plantarum. 5 vols.

Botanik.

Kurz, Vegetatie van Het Eiland Bangka.

Eenige Kruidkundige Mededeelingen.
Labillardiere, Sur Candollea (Stylidium).

Sertum Austro-Caledonicum.

Novai Hollandi® Plantarum Specimen.

V oyage in Search of Lapdrouse.

Lamark, En cyclop® die M^thoaique. 20 vols.
Lammersdorf, De Filicum Fructificatione.

Lange, Handbog i den Danske Flora.

Epilobium.

Planters Acclimatisation.

Floristic Skizze.

Lawson, Plants collected in Upper Canada.

On Botrychium granulatum.

On Lektnannia variegata.

Synopsis of Canadian Ferns.

Lehmann, Plant® Nov® Hollandi® austro-occi-
dentalis.

Asperifoli®.

Cycade® Afric® australis.

Nicotiane®.

Primulace®.

Monographia Potentillarum.

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