A LIST OF THE INDIGENOUS PLANTS OF THE 

 MUDGEE DISTKICT. 



By Alexander G. Hamilton. 



In my list of tlie Orchidese of this district (Proc. Linn. Soc. of 

 N.S.W., Vol. I., 2nd Ser. 1886, p. 865), I promised at some 

 future time to furnish a list of the phsenogamous plants and 

 the ferns. That promise I now fulfil in the hope that it may be 

 of some use in the elucidation of the question of the geographical 

 distribution of species. 



The remarks that applied to the distribution of orchids in this 

 ■district, apply equally to the other families The sandstone found 

 on the Dividing Range supports the plants that are typical of the 

 sandstone elsewhere. But there is, among the remaining families 

 a greater proportion of species differing from the coast forms than 

 is found among the orchids. These differing forms however, 

 appear to be representatives of the coast plants. 



In one or two sheltered spots there are many species not 

 occurring elsewhere about Mudgee. For example, in a deep 

 gully at Mullamuddy are found Fittosjjorurn undulatum, Eucalyj)- 

 tus globulus, Nicotiana sioaveolens, Sambucus xanthocarjm, Sturmia 

 re/lexa, Dendrobium sjieciosicm, and Pteris aquilma, none of which 

 occur generally over the district, although the last three grow at 

 Cooyal, on the Dividing Range. Some other plants, rare else- 

 where, are common in this ravine. 



