LIST OF THE ORCHIDE^E OF THE MUDGEE 



DISTRICT. 



By Alex. G. Hamilton. 



My object in compiling this list is to contribute something 

 towards a knowledge of the geographical distribution of plants 

 in New South Wales. At some future time I hope to be able to 

 give a list of the remaining phanerogamous plants, and of the ferns. 



Most of the species hereinmentioned have been collected by myself, 

 and determined by Mr. R. D. Fitzgerald from fresh specimens. 

 For the names of a few species which I have not myself collected, 

 I am indebted to a list given me by Dr. Woolls, of plants which 

 he collected when on a trip to Mudgee. I have to thank both 

 these gentlemen for their assistance in this and many other 

 matters of the kind. 



Some of the species, notably those belonging to the genus 

 Caladenia, are not considered good by some authors, but Mr. 

 Bentham points out, (in the Flora Australiensis) that the study of 

 the plants in a fresh state may afford some characters which will 

 separate those that in a dry state appear to be mere varieties, 

 and such study leads me to think that the species in question are 

 good ones. It is on the examination of fresh specimens that 

 Mr. Fitzgerald bases the diagnoses of the species in his elaborate 

 work on Australian Orchids. 



The greater number of the species mentioned have been 

 collected within a radius of five miles from Guntawang. The 

 country here is a fair specimen of the district generally, including 

 rocky and barren hills, moist, shady and fertile gullies, open 

 timbered country, and rich flats on the banks of the Cudgegong 

 River. I have also collected around Cullenbone, Reedy Creek, 

 Two-Mile Flat, and Mudgee, but have found no species differing 

 from those at Guntawang, with the exception of Bendrobium, 



