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and prized for the value of their timber. Bacrydium Franklinii 

 which is a large tree rising from 60 to 100 feet, is peculiar to 

 Tasmania, but Mr. E. D. Fitzgerald, F.L.S. has recently dis- 

 covered that the genus is represented on the Blue Mountains by 

 a small shrub described by Baron Mueller under the name of 

 B. Fitzgeraldi (Fragmenta, Vol. II., p. 102). The discovery of 

 this plant is highly interesting, as it affords an additional link 

 between the Flora of Australia and New Zealand. The Cycadeae 

 of Australia are confined to three genera and seven species, all 

 of which, with the exception of Macrozamia Fraseri, are found in 

 Queensland. The order does not extend to Victoria. 



Of the introduced plants of the Monochlaniydere the following 

 have been recorded : 



Phytolacca octandra, (Linn.) Rumex acetosella (Linn.) 



Chenopodium murale, (Linn.) Polygonum aviculare (Linn.) 



,, ambrosioides (Linn.) ,, orientate (Linn.) 



Atriplex patula (Linn.) Cuscuta epithymum (Willd.) 



Amarantus paniculatus, (Linn.) Euphorbia peplus (Linn.) 



,, blitum (Linn.) Ricinus communis (Linn.) 



,, viridis (Linn.) TJrtica dioica (Linn.) 



Rumex crispus (Linn.) ,, urcns (Linn.) 



,, conglomeratus (Mur.) Cannabis sativa (Willd.) 



In concluding my review of the Dicotyledonous plants of New 

 South Wales, it would appear that the indigenous species are 

 nearly 2,000, whilst those which have been introduced accidentally 

 a»e about 115. I am well aware that this estimate is far from 

 being correct, and that the progress of cultivation is gradually 

 encroaching on our native vegetation. Baron Mueller, in his 

 admirable volume on " The Native Plants of Victoria," omits 

 any enumeration of introduced plants, because he remarks " not 

 only would it be difficult to affirm, where the annually increasing 

 number of these kind of hospitants or invaders or garden fugitives 

 was to end in any enumeration of the vegetation of our prolific 



