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of petrified wood. The water-bearing strata are of Post Pliocene 

 age. 



Contribution to a South Queensland Flora. 

 By the Eev. B. Scortechini, L.L.B. 



The only department of Australian Botany, which has received 

 as yet any thing like a fair share of study from scientific men, is the 

 taxological department, Much road remains untrodden before 

 we shall go through all the branches of Australian Botany. 

 Many treasures lie hidden under ground, which paleontological 

 Botany will some day bring to light. Many medicinal properties, 

 useful and economic principles, pervade our plants, which botanic 

 chemistry will in future wrest from them. Little or nothing has 

 been done in cryptogamic Botany. Even in systematic Botany 

 not a little is left undone. 



If that imperishable monument raised by the genius and labour 

 of Bentham and Mueller — the Flora Australiensis — is a sure guide 

 to the classification of Australian plants, and as such cannot be 

 surpassed, yet the distribution of our plants is very imperfectly 

 known. To this knowledge, the compilation of local Floras will 

 lead, a work of time and patience. Pew of them as yet exist. 

 Towards the completion of a South Queensland Plora I beg to 

 contribute a list of some plants, which are not known to science 

 as existing in South Queensland. The area in which I met them 

 growing extends from South and West of the Logan waters to 

 the border of the Colony, and the Pacific sea-shore. The President 

 of this Society and Mr. Bailey have already given us a complete 

 census of the Brisbane Flora, which takes a radius of twenty-five 

 miles around Brisbane. The incomplete list I now offer, begins 

 where the Brisbane Plora list ends, on the south side. 



Much the same Plora as that of Brisbane prevails in this area, 

 but many inhabitants of the New South Wales Plora enter our 



