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through white, yellow, and red clifFs. While the horses took the be- 

 nefit of their early halt, I minutely examined the clifFs and their vici- 

 nity, in company with Mr. Eidley; but although there was every ap- 

 pearance of their forming a portion of the carboniferous series, we 

 could discover no shales, nor any rocks in which could be traced a de- 

 cided dip or inclination of the strata. In the evening the latitude by 

 Meukar was found to be 33° 44' 8'' S. 



{To he continued^ 



BOTANICAL INFOEMATION. 



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Fird General Report of the Government Botanist^ Dr. F. AIullee, on 

 the Vegetation of the Colony of yicxoKiA, in Australia ; com- 

 municated by His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Chief Secretary for 



the Colonies. 



{Continued from p, 126.) 



That the vegetation of the southern parts of our province accords 

 greatly with the Tasmania Flora, may be demonstrated by the fact that 

 more than half of all the enumerated species are known to inhabit Van 

 Diemen's Land, amongst them many of great interest, which had been 

 considered as belonging exclusively to that island, some adding even 

 new genera to the Elora of New Holland : they are Fagus Cunning- 

 hami^ Baiiera Billardieri, Tasmania aromatica, TFeinmannia biglandulosa, 

 Pl€i(randra7no7iadelphia, Ranunculus Gunnianus, Capsella auslralis^Pitto- 

 sporum bicolor^ Rhytidosporum procumbens^ Rhytidosporum Stuartianum^ 

 Boronia dentigera^Eriostmion verrucosus, CorrceaBackhousianayMeionectes 

 Brownii, Bossi^ea horizo7i talis, Br achy come decipienSy Celmisia astelifolia^ 

 Sccevola Hookeri, Monotoca lineata, Lissanthe Montana, Lissanthe ciliataj 

 Prostanthera rotundifolia^ Myosotis suaveolens, Wilsonia Backhousii^ Gen- 

 tiana Biemensis, Sebcea albidiflora, Hakea microcarpa, Podocarpus mon- 

 tana^ Phyllanthus Gunnii, Micranthea hexandra^ Diplarrhena Morcea^ 

 Uhcinia tenella^ Triodontium Tasmanicum, and a great number of Ferns. 



No numerical comparison with the Flora of South Australia and 

 New South Wales has been instituted, as those localities are not suffi- 

 ciently examined which bear, perhaps in this respect, so great a re- 



