819 VEGETATION OF VICTORIA. 
Graminea, Myrtacee, Cyperoidee, Salsolacee, Proteacee, Filices, Or- 
chidee, Epacridee, Diosmee, Umbellifere, Liliacee, Labiate, Crucifere, 
Goodeniacee, Scrophularine, Euphorbiacee. 
Probably the descriptions of the new plants discovered last season 
will receive an abridged publication in the Transactions of the Philoso- 
phical Society or of the Melbourne Institute. Manuscripts have also 
been periodically transmitted to Sir William Hooker for his Journal, 
accompanied by corresponding specimens, All these scattered notes 
will be hereafter collected in a popular form for a Flora of Vie- 
toria. 
Seeds of the indigenous plants have been gathered during my jour- 
ney, when season and opportunity permitted, and not only for our own 
establishment, for they have been also distributed, to the amount of 
nearly 2000 lots, to the Royal Gardens at Kew, the Botanical Gardens 
of Hobart Town, Sydney, Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Caleutta, ete. 
I beg to conclude these remarks with a few observations on the 
utility of such of our vegetable productions as were not alluded to in 
my last report. 
The woods stand in this regard prominent in importance. The Blue 
Gum tree of Van Diemen’s Land (Eucalyptus globulus) is found abund- 
antly in some of the forest districts, principally of the south, and is 
already so well known for its colossal size, as to render it superfluous 
to quote the statements made of its vast dimensions. Of the circum- 
ference of the stem instances are on record, by which this tree ranks 
only second to the famous Boabob from the Senegal. The experiments 
instituted in Van Diemen’s Land have shown “that its elasticity and 
strength exceed generally those of all woods hitherto tested ;” “it is 
equal in durability to oak and superior to it in size;" and therefore 
highly esteemed for ship-building. Other Zucalypti likewise deserve 
attention, on account of the beauty and durability of their wood, in 
consequence of which qualities one of them, from the south-eastern 
frontiers, received there the name of the Mahogany tree. The wood of 
Callistemon salignus, although seldom of large dimensions, stands here, 
perhaps, unrivalled for hardness, The fragrant Myall wood, so well 
adapted for delicate ornamental work, is obtained from Acacia homalo- 
_ phylla, and some allied species in the Mallee desert. The well-known 
. Blackwood (deacia melanozylon), in some localities called Lightwood, 
vs attains in the Fern-tree gullies an enormous size, and yields a splendid 
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