416 HOTAXV OF THE DARLING, N.S.W., 



This is the first Census of tlio Phanerogaiaia and vascular 

 Cryptogamia of the Darling country, and I hope it will be found 

 useful to those who desire to study the flora of that portion of 

 New South Wales. 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 I have followed the same 

 classification and nomenclature as have been adopted in that 

 classical reference work. 



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

 them have become acclimatised in the Darling country. 



The plants marked with a dagger have been figured and 

 described, as to their economic value, by me. 



Some of the most intrepid explorers in Australia have collected 

 plants in the Darling country. Amongst them may be mentioned 

 Sturt, Mitchell, Cunningham, McDowall Stuart, iMueller,Dallachy 

 and Beckler, whose names will never be forgotten whilst the 

 vescetation of Australia lasts. 



Mrs. H. Forde and Mr. G. Suttor collected some interesting 

 specimens of plants on the Lower Darling in 1865-6. These 

 were named by the late Rev. Dr. W. Woolls, F.L.S., who wrote 

 a chapter about them in his book entitled "A Contribution to 

 the Flora of Australia.'"' 



Mrs. Forde's beautiful paintings of some of the plants of the 

 Darling have already been referred to in this paper. 



jNIy thanks are due to a number of pastoralists and stockmen 

 for forwarding me botanical specimens for identification during 

 the last twenty years. 



The accompanjdng table shows the percentage of the indigenous 

 Fhaneroyamia and the vascular Cryptogamia of the Darling 

 country compared with the similar flora of New South Wales. 



