20 TROPICAL ACACIAS OF QUEENSLAND, 



Bentham, G. " Flora Australiensis " (B. Fl. ii). 

 Acacia is dealt with at pp. 301-421 (1864). Referred to 

 hereafter as Bentham. 



It is not easy to pick out the North Queensland Acacias 

 in this work unless specific localities are quoted, since 

 some are to be found under " N. Australia." 



Bentham, G. " Revision of the Suborder Mimosse." 

 Trans. Linn. Soc, xxx, 335 (1875), with 4 plates of pods of 

 Acacia. Acacias are dealt with at pp. 444-533, and in the 

 beginning of the paper. 



Mueller, F. Iconography of Australian species of 

 Acacia and cognate genera. Decades i-xiii, 1887-8. 



The value of this quarto work, great as it is, is depre- 

 ciated because no information is given as to the sources of 

 the specimens illustrated. We do not know whether they 

 are the types, or where they were collected, or any history 

 of them. The history has been elucidated in a few cases, 

 and perhaps the tedious Avork (which can only be carried 

 out at the Melbourne Herbarium) of matching these figures 

 by actual specimens, can be undertaken. At present all 

 that we can say (and the same remarks apply to Mueller's 

 " Flora of Victoria," his " Eucalyptographia," and his 

 companion illustrated works on the Myoporinse, Salsolacese 

 and Candolleacese) is that they depict plants attributed to 

 the species whose name they bear. It is regrettable that 

 this example of figuring plants of whose origin we know 

 nothing, has been followed by some others, quite thought- 

 lessly, I am sure. If a plant is worth figuring at all, it is 

 worthy of a statement as to whence it was obtained, and 

 other necessary particulars concerning it. 



Bailey, F. M. •■ Queensland Flora." Part ii (1900). 

 Referred to hereafter as Bailey. This work makes a 

 very free use of the Flora Australiensis. In a number of 

 cases Bailey admits into the flora of Queensland species 

 whose only claim is Bentham's statement, " Islands of 

 the Gulf of Carpentaria" (R. BroAvn and others). Bailey 

 admits some of Mueller's Carpentaria records (almost 

 invariabh^ Northern Territory) in a similar way. It is 

 not proper to admit such records as Queensland without 

 further evidence, however we may feel in our own minds 



