66 THE FLORA OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
Hepatice, Aphyllanthee, Droseracee, Amaranthacee, Lobeliacee, and 
Iridee, which give the principal character, and have rendered this 
part of the country so celebrated among botanists. Ferns on the 
contrary, Grasses, Violariee, Rubiacee, and apparently Sadsolacee also, 
are, comparatively speaking, of rare oecurrence there. If we further 
remark that only about one-sixteenth of the species agree with those 
of South Australia, it may serve as a measure of the peculiarity of this 
flora. 
We perceive, on the contrary, but few marked differences, in the 
eastern flora, compared with that of South Australia, although there 
are still far fewer points of contact to be discovered with it than with 
the Tasmanian. For in the East, not only do the Proteacee and Fpa- 
cridee again increase, and indeed in a twofold degree, but we likewise 
find an augmentation in the number of Ferns, Restiacee, Polygalee, 
and Dilleniacee ; the Composite, Salsolacee, and Myoporinee, on the 
contrary, being evidently fewer than in the southern flora, with whose 
species only about one-seventh perfectly coincide; whilst of the Tas- 
manian species more than one-fourth are identical with those which are 
indigenous here. 
The above-mentioned near relationship is disturbed, not only by the 
greater profusion of Ferns, which love an insular climate, by the 
doubled amount of Epacridee, which there, in union with a subalpine 
flora, clothe the high mountain-tops, by the increased number of Res- 
tiacee and Polygalee ; but also on the other hand by the fact that 
Goodeniacee, Salsolacee, and Myoporinee, are but weakly represented 
there, and that Loranthacee and Cesalpinee entirely cease. ; 
It has been already imperfectly shown in these remarks, how pre- 
eminently Southern New Holland is distinguished by the profusion 
of Composite, Salsolacee, Myoporinee, Haloragee, Cesalpinee,. Caryo- 
phyllee, and Crucifere ; a profusion which, nevertheless, is only rela- 
tive, since the orders of plants which here most strikingly predominate, 
rank in the following manner, according to the number of their species, 
viz.: Composite, Leguminose, Alga, Grasses, Myrtacee, Cyperacee, 
Salsolacee, Orchidee, Fungi, Goodeniacee, Crucifere, Myoporinee, Pro- 
teacee, Diosmee, Epacridee, Umbellifere, Malvacee, Musci, Serophu- 
larinee, Liliacee, Rhamnee, Labiate, Thymelee, Ferns. 
The number of Dicotyledons truly indigenous here is rather more 
than four times as great as that of the Monocotyledons; but if we do 
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