C. H. Ostenfeld: Contributions to West Australian Botany. I. 3 



DiELS and Pritzel 1 in which all the earlier literature has been 

 quoted. A very useful list of the flora has been published in the 

 State Yearbook for 1900 — 1901 2 , and a periodical issued in 

 Perth by a scientific society which goes under various names 

 ("The Mueller Botanic Society", "The West Australian Natural 

 History Society", "The Natural History and Science Society of 

 W. A.") contains several papers on the flora (1902 — 1914). 



Valuable contributions have also been made by Spencer 

 Le Marchant Moore (Journ. Linnean Soc, Botany, XXXIV, 

 1899) as the result of travels in the interior of the state, and by 

 K. Domin (ibid., XLI, 1912) who has worked out some recent 

 collections from West Australia preserved in the Kew Herbarium. 

 Isolated minor contributions to West Australian Botany are to 

 be found in the Kew Bulletin and other British periodicals, in 

 Fedde's Repertor. novar. spec, in K. Domin's important work; 

 Beitr. zur Flora und Pflanzengeographie Australiens 

 (1915 — ), and in the journals of various Australian scientific 

 societies. 



As regards the phytogeography our main source is the 

 monograph by L. Diels (1906) dealing with the extra-tropical 

 part of the State. Shorter sketches of the vegetation have been 

 published by A. Morrison (in the State Yearbook for 1900 — 1901) 

 and by C. Andrews (in the Handbook of W. A., prepared for the 

 members of the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, 1914). 



From this summary of the earlier studies on West Australian 

 botany it is evident that any contributions of mine resulting from 

 journeys mostly within areas previously visited by botanists, must 

 be relatively unimportant. A longer stay in the tropical part of 

 the State would have been a great opportunity, since the flora 

 and vegetation of this part are very poorly investigated 3 . The 

 future botanical exploration of the north-western and the tropical 



1 L. Diels and E. Pritzel: Fragmenta Phytographiæ Australiæ occid- 

 entalis. — Engler, Botan. Jahrb., XXXV, 1904-05. 



L. Diels: Die Pflanzenwelt von West-Australien südlich des Wende- 

 kreises. — Engler u. Drude, Die Vegetation der Erde. VII. 190G. 



2 F. von Mueller: List of Extra-tropic West Australian Plants. Revised 

 and augmented by A. Morrison. — Western Australian Year-Book 

 for 1900-1901, vol. I. Perth 1902. 



3 After this was written I received a valuable contribution to the flora 

 of the tropical W. A., viz.: E. Cheel: Plants, in: Results of Dr. E. 

 Mjöbergs Swedish scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910 — 13. K. Sven- 

 ska Vetensk. Akad. Handl. Bd. 52, No. 10. Stockholm 1916. 



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