president's address. 797 



3'-et he had the temerit}^ to give an exhibition of reckless species- 

 making that, as far as I know, stands unparalleled in the annals 

 of botanical literature. As a " shocking example " of what 

 lengths an unbridled systematist may go to, it certainly should 

 not be buried in the pages of a geological Blue-book. 



EUCALYPTID/E. 



I. Dried specimens of the sprigs in separate papers, the different 



genera (all new), or the principal divisions of the family, 



marked on each : — 



1st Series 68 



2nd Series 297 



3rd Series 160 



4th Series (species growing on the Government Domain, Melbourne) 39 



564 



II. Species and varieties contained in small paper bags, labelled as 



above, each containing capsules, leaves, and (where pro- 

 curable) seeds and buds : — 



1st Series 33 



2nd Series •" 167 



3rd Series 691 



4th Series. From the Government Domain 39 



930 



III. Papers of sprigs of the capsules, etc, collected on the Blue 



Mountains, New South Wales 26 



T^ofaZ of species and varieties 1520 



Pines. 



A series of large bags and tin cases, numbered and named, of all the 

 species of Casuarhiere examined and determined from 26th 

 July to 29th September (a few separate packets of " unex- 

 amined species") 201 



A series of large bags and tin cases of my rlew genus Echinocai-pus 



or Grass Pines, numbered and named 21 



222 



" List of species of Casuarinese or Australian Pines, discovered, named 

 and described by Mr. Swain son, and of which seeds and cones (mostly in 

 abundance) have been collected for the Victorian Government." 



