50 BOTANY OF NORTH-AVESTERN NEW SOUTH WALES, 



Fraser, Sturt, Leichhardt and Mitchell, who collected man}'' 

 plants and referred to some of them in the published accounts of 

 their explorations. All those men have earned everlasting fame 

 for the noble work they performed in the face of immense 

 difficulties and trials. Since those earl}^ exploring days not many 

 men appear to have botanised in the north-west. Those who 

 have made the largest collections of plants prior to my own were 

 the late Rev. Dr. William Woolls, F.L.S., and Mr. Charles 

 Moore, F.L.S., late Government Botanist of New South Wales. 

 Near Mundooran on the upper Castlereagh Dr. Woolls collected 

 in 1872 about two hundred species of plants and wrote an enter- 

 taining and most informing chapter about them in his book 

 entitled ' Lectures on the Vegetable Kingdom.' Mr. Moore 

 botanised on the Castlereagh and Liverpool Plains, and his collec- 

 tions of plants are recorded in the ' Flora Australiensis.' . 



This is the first Census of the Flianerocjamia and vascular 

 Cryptogamia of North-western New South Wales, and I hope it 

 will be found useful by those who desire to study the flora of 

 that portion of the State. Many plants not hitherto recorded 

 from that region will be found in the following pages. 



All the indigenous plants included in this Census that I did 

 not know at sight I have worked out by the diagnosis given in 

 Bentham's 'Flora Australiensis' and Bailey's 'Queensland Flora,' 

 and I have followed the same classification and nomenclature as 

 have been adopted in the former indispensable reference work. 



The plants marked with an asterisk are exotic, but many of 

 them have become acclimatised in the north-west. 



The plants marked with a dagger have been figured and 

 described, as to their economic value or other properties, by me. 



At the request of the owners and occupiers of several large 

 sheep and cattle stations in the north-west, I have named and 

 described the indigenous and exotic vegetation growing on their 

 properties, and my thanks are due to a number of pastoralists, 

 stockmen and others for forwarding me botanical specimens 

 during the last seventeen years. 



