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NOTES ON SOME TASMANIAN PLANTS, 

 By Baeon Ferd. von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.D., E.E.S. 



[Uead 8th June, 1&80.; 



Verlena afficinalis, L. sp. \A. 20, near Launceston ; Aug. 

 Simson. The discovery of the medicinal Vervain in Tas- 

 mania, though not unexpected, is of double interest, 

 inasmuch as this plant adds a natural order to the flora of the 

 Island. This Verbena is rather widely, although not copiously, 

 distriljuted through South-Eastern Australia, but not yet 

 found in New Zealand, where however it may have been 

 overlooked, as it has been for so long a time in Tasmania. 



Acradenia Franldinice, Kipp., Pieman's Eiver ; Aug. 

 Simson. 



StaclcJiousia flava, Hook., Pieman's Eiver ; Aug. Simson. 



Fagus Gunnii, J. Hook., Mount Eoland, 3,500ft.; Emmett. 



Sclicemts fluitans, J. Hook., St. Patrick's Eiver; Aug. 

 Simson. 



The genus Biselma is now reduced to Fitzroya, by 

 Bentham, in B. and H. gen. plant., iii., 426 (1880), while 

 Frenela is suppressed, to restore the genus CalUtris again to 

 its full right. 



Zieria veronicea, F. v. M. in the transact, of the Philos. 

 Soc. of Vict., i. 11 (1854), a narrow-leaved variety, Scamander 

 Bridge, near the North-East Coast ; A. Simson. 



Eucalyptus hoemastoma, gum-topped stringy bark, Smith in 

 the transact, of the Linn. Soc, iii., 285, Lake Sorell and 

 elsewhere ; Stephens. 



82)hacelaria Muelleri, Sonder, and Folysii)'honia dendriticay 

 Agardh, occurred in collections of Algce from Tasmania 

 recently, for the first time ; both came from Emu Bay. 



