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BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



countries, we shall succeed in keeping pace with the general advance of 

 this great and flourishing country. 



I have the honour to be, etc., 



Ferdinand Mullek. 



[This Eeport is followed by a catalogue of all the known native plants 

 of the Colony, systematically arranged, collected, and examined by Dr, 

 Miiller, between September, 1852, and August, 1853.] 



Botany of Victoria Colony, 



The following are extracts from Letters recently received from Dr, 

 F. MuLLER, Colonial Botanist at Victoria, whose first Eeport on the 

 Vegetation of that Colony we give in our present number. 



Victoria Range, 21st Novembcrj 1853. 



Encamped here, on a new botanical journey through this province, 

 I observed for the second time within the last five years, a pretty 

 little Siylidium^ which most unfortunately, from badly developed and 

 preserved specimens, was mistaken by me for a Polypompholyx (rather 

 a gross error, considering the germen inferum), and passed accordingly 

 into my diagnoses, which I have the pleasure of forwarding to you 

 by His Excellency Governor Latrobe* as P. adenotricha. Having, 

 whilst travelling, on account of the burden, left all books behind ex- 

 cept R. Brown's Prodromus, I am uncertain if my plant is the Coleosty- 

 lis umbellata of Sonder. It approaches rather closely to Stylidium um- 

 bellatum of Labillardiere, hut will prove, most likely, a distinct species. 



I left Melbourne a fortnight ago, and shall twice traverse the 

 northern districts of this province during the coming five months. 



I have met, to my great dehght, with all Sir Thomas Mitchell's rari- 

 ties of the Grampians, besides some which, during Sir Thomas's visit to 

 this locality (June), were not in flower; so that I hope to be enabled to 

 add amply to your great herbarium. Myosuriis amtralis I found here 

 again — the second locality which I know of this most interesting plant ; 

 Mariantkes bif/noniaceus and Eriostemon Hillebrandi occur also in the 

 Grampians, as well as a beautiful subalpine Batiera, several Melaleuca^ 

 Mitrasacme, Stylidium, StenanUiera, Styphelia, etc.. Most of them are 

 new to me, and many, I presume, also new to science. 



* The packet in question has not yet arrived. — Ed. 



