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specimens (from which the plants were described), and there, 

 also, I saw sprigs gathered in such widely-separated places as 

 Victoria River and Roper River, Northern Territory, King 

 George's Sound, Lord Howe Island, Menindie, Geraldton, Alice 

 Springs, and I was sorely tempted to halt and study the 

 varying forms due to diverse climatic conditions or differences 

 of altitude, but for this there was no time. Accounts of early 

 voyages and inland journeys were recalled by the specimens 

 labelled with the following names as collectors : — Banks and 

 Solander (1770), Robt. Brown (1802), Allan Cunningham (1817), 

 Mitchell (1836), Dr. Leichhardt (1840), F. Mueller (1853-55), 

 and those Victorian collectors of later years — Dallachy, who 

 collected chiefly in the North-West and the Grampians ; Dr. 

 A. W. Howitt, Gippsland ; and Bauerlen, East Gippsland. 

 Other names occurring frequently on Victorian specimens were 

 Reader (S. and N.W.), Walter (general), Alhtt (S.W.), Fullagar 

 (S.), Jephcott (Hume R.), Sullivan (Grampians), Tisdall 

 (Walhalla), Whan (Skipton), French and Stirling (Alps), 

 D' Alton (N.W.), Macmillan (Gippsland), Findlay (Towong), 

 Campbell (Grampians), Wilhelmi (N.W. and S.W.), Bacchus 

 (Ballarat), Adamson (Melbourne), Curdie (Camperdown), 

 Hannaford (Warrnambool), J. B. Wilson (Geelong), Robertson 

 (S.W.), Eckhert (N.W.), Lockhart Morton (N.W.), and that 

 enthusiastic lady collector, Mrs. M'Cann (Mitta Mitta). Almost 

 all the Victorian specimens before 1890 were collected by those 

 mentioned, Mueller standing first for number of species. Since 

 that year specimens have been sent along by a few collectors, 

 some of whom, in his characteristic original way, the Baron 

 styled his " kind phytographic coUaborateurs." 



Two aims have been before me in preparing this paper : to 

 draw attention to certain supposed Victorian species with a 

 view to stimulating botanical workers in their field research 

 work, and to put in a plea on behalf of the National Herbarium, 

 of which Victorians should be proud. With regard to the 

 former, the plants in question may be regarded as non-Victorian 

 as far as the present botanical workers are concerned, so that 

 any discoveries of them in our State can be considered credit- 

 able to those who make them. Hence the necessity for 

 publishing a list of them, and which ought to result in a more 

 accurate and complete census. More than half of the 180 in 

 question have probably not been gathered since Mueller 

 obtained them himself during those early journeys in 1853-55 

 which were so tersely described and mapped out by Mr. 

 F. G. A. Barnard in his interesting paper in the Naturalist for 

 June, 1904 (xxi., p. 17). 



Many of these plants are labelled " Munyang Mt.," " Nungatta 

 Mt.," "Sources of Snowy and Murray," " Mt. Imlay," "Lower 

 Murray," none of which are definite Victorian localities. It 



