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•] Sutton, Notes on the Sandringham Flora. 15 



An analysis of the 387 plants in the census will show that 

 the numbers contained in the zones described, more or less 

 correspond with their comparative wideness, and that about 

 6 per cent, belong to the foreshore, 27 per cent, to the 

 leptospermetum, and 67 per cent, to the scrub-land. Further, 

 according to Baron von Mueller's " Second Census," it is 

 found that a great majority of the Sandringham plants have a 

 very wide range, only three — Leeuwenhoekia Sonderi, Thelymitra 

 epipactoides, and Pterostylis Mackibhinii — being endemic to the 

 State ; that 112 species extend beyond Australasia (88 of these 

 also to New Zealand), and that about 69 of these, being 

 described from at least two other continents, may fairly be 

 termed " ubiquists." Of those .endemic to Australasia, only 45 

 are set down as occurring in fewer than four States. 



It is interesting to note that while 15 per cent, of Austral- 

 asian plants extend to other countries, and a little more than 

 3 per cent, only to New Zealand, the proportions in the case 

 of the Sandringham plants are respectively more than 28 per 

 cent, and 22 per cent. 



In the compilation of the census the first name is always 

 that occurring in the late Baron Von Mueller's " Key to the 

 System of Victorian Plants," and as there is likelihood of many 

 of the synonyms in " The Flora Australiensis " being adopted 

 subsequently, these have also been added in parentheses. The 

 list is as far as possible complete, names having been taken from 

 several sources, and grateful acknowledgment for suggestions and 

 revision of the lists is here made to several members of the Club, 

 and more particularly to Messrs. P. R. H. St. John and C. 

 French, jun., whose familiarity with the district is so well 

 known. 



Census of Sandringham Flora. 



/i indicates plants found on the foreshore; /, those of the "leptosper- 

 metum;" s, of the scrub-land; a, aquatic plants and those in wet 

 ground ; *, plants rarely met with. 

 Dilleniace;e— h Cakile maritima, Scop. 



s Hibbertia densiflora, F. v. M. Violace/E 



(H. sericea, Benth.) 5 viola hederacea. Labill. 



s „ stncta, R. Br. s ,. „ var. Sieberiana 



5 „ acicularis, F. v. M. ^ 



s ,. fasciculata, R. Br. PrTTOSPORE^— 



Ranunculace^— ^ Bursaria spinosa, Cav. 



/ Clematis microphylla, D.C. ^ Billardiera scandens, Sm. 



a Ranunculus rivularis, B. & S. Droserace^ — 



lappaceus, Sm. 5 Drosera glanduligera, Lehm. 



Laurace^— 



5 Cassytha glabella, R. Br. 



s ,, pubescens, R. Br. 



5/ ,, melantha, R.Br. 



Crucifer^ — 



/ Stenopetalum lineare, R. Br 



s Lepidium ruderale, L. 



pygmsea, D. C. 

 spathulata, Labill. 

 binata, Labill. 

 Whittakeri, Planch, 

 auriculata, Back, 

 peltata, Sm. 

 Menziesii, R. Br. 



