THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 19 



between the Lakes and Port Albert ; thence to Wilson's 

 Promontory and back to Melbourne by the coast — a journey 

 which he estimated at 1,500 miles. 



He gives as an appendix to his report a list of the Victorian 

 plants to date, in which he enumerates 715 species of dicotyl- 

 edons, belonging 1083 orders and 286 genera; 201 species of 

 monocotyledons, belonging to 21 orders and 100 genera; with 47 

 species of ferns, belonging to 27 genera, or a grand total of 963 

 species, more than half the species listed in Part 2 of the "Key to 

 the System of Victorian Plants," published in 1885. Those who 

 knew him can picture with what enthusiasm he must have 

 collected on the hitherto untrodden slopes of the Buffaloes, Mt. 

 Buller, &c. No wonder that a large proportion of our Victorian 

 plants bear, as the mark of their sponsor, F. v. M. 



In the summary of the results of the first trip he calls attention 

 to the fact that more than half the plants enumerated were known 

 to inhabit Tasmania (then Van Diemen's Land), and that some of 

 these were considered to belong exclusively to that island. Other 

 affinities are also pointed out, such as a Panax resembling a 

 species in the Moluccas ; the genera Psoralea and Crantzia as 

 connecting links with America; while Myrsine howitliana is 

 nearer to the New Zealand species than those of New South 

 Wales. Then again Auisotorne (Acipht/lla) glacialis is representa- 

 tive of a genus found in the Auckland and Campbell Islands, 

 south-east of New Zealand. His most noteworthy additions to 

 our flora he regards as Grevillea victorice, Correa lawrenciana, 

 and Basileophyta frederici augusti — rather a singular name for 

 such a man to bestow on an indigenous plant, but now known as 

 Fieldia australis. As a commencement of the policy which he 

 advocated in later years, he points out certain plants which 

 either in their present state or by cultivation could be made 

 useful to man either as medicinal remedies or as food plants, &c. 



His second annual report is dated 5th October, 1854, and is 

 printed in the " Notes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council 

 of Victoria, 1854-5," vol. i., part 2 (A 18), page 931. 



The second journey was commenced on ist November, 1853, 

 Mount Sturgeon, at the southern extremity of the Grampians, 

 being his first point in hilly country. He traversed the Serra, 

 Victoria, and Grampian Ranges, in order to see if Sir Thomas 

 Mitchell, who ascended and named Mount William in July, 

 1836, on his journey towards the sea at Portland, had left any- 

 thing for future explorers, and then intended to travel through 

 the Mallee towards the Murray, but, owing to the heat and want 

 of water, was obliged to make for the Avoca River, which he 

 followed down almost to the Murray, when, still wishing to 

 observe the Mallee, he turned west to Lake Lalbert, and through 

 the Mallee fringe to the Murray, reaching that river below Swan 



