570 PLANTS OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 



five or six hundred new species of Australian plants have been 

 discovered, and these, tog-ether with the enumeration of the 

 Cryptogamous orders recently elaborated in the Fragmenta 

 Phytographice Australia by Baron Mueller, must in the course of 

 time appear in supplementary volumes to the Flora Australiensis. 

 From the sources, however, now before the public, some estimate 

 can be formed of the species indigenous in the Colony, and of 

 the range to which they are limited. With regard to the latter, 

 careful observation is still required in all parts of Australia, 

 for plants, which, a few years since, were supposed to belong to 

 the adjacent colonies are now found to be common to N. S. Wales. 

 Thus, for instance, in the first volume of the Flora, including tbe 

 Thalamiflorai and BisciflorcB, the following species are not recorded 

 as occurring in this colony ; and no doubt, as in the formation of 

 local Floras the plants of each district are carefully registered, 

 the number of omissions will be proved to be greater than is now 

 supposed. The species, to which I now refer are, 

 Mgosurus minimus, (Linn.) Stellaria multiflora, (Hook.) 



Brasenia peltata, (Pursh.) Hibiscus divaricahis, (Grab.) 



Apophjllum anomalum, (F.v.M.) Elceocarpus holopetalus, (F.v.M.) 

 Comespermapolygaloides, (F .v.M.) Elatine americana, (Arn.) 

 Cakile maritima, (Scop.) Corrcea alba, (Andr.) 



In attempting, therefore, to give a census of the plants of 

 N. S. Wales, or of instituting any comparison between the 

 genera and species of this and the adjacent colonies, the work 

 can only be provisional, for in the progress of science great 

 changes may be anticipated from observing the limits of species, 

 and from the probable amalgamation of forms now recorded as 

 as distinct. It may be well to remark, that so far as yet known, 

 the following orders do not extend to N. S. Wales : — 

 Guttifera. Burseracese. 



Malpighiacere. Ilicineae. 



The first of these orders is represented in Australia by one 

 species, Cahphylhm inophglJum (Linn.), which, according to the 



