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northern coast, as far as Rockingham Bay, visiting the Upper 

 Herbert and Seaview Range. In 1876 1 travelled on a collecting 

 trip from Brisbane via Roma, through the Maranoa and Warrego 

 to Tambo, and from thence through the Leichhardt to Rock- 

 hampton. In 1877 I visited Cairns and collected on the ranges 

 about the Barron River. These journeys and the many shorter 

 excursions have added greatly to our knowledge of the Queens- 

 land flora, but the expedition under A. Meston's leadership to that 

 almost unknown region, the summit of the Bellenden-Ker Range, 

 in 1889, has proved by its results to have been one of the most 

 successful since the days of Cunningham. By it were added to 

 the known Queensland flora about one hundred plants. The 

 rough stringy bark tree. Eucalyptus Bailei/ana, F.v.M., bears my 

 name. In a former part of this sketch has been noticed the 

 principal work of the Government Botanist of Victoria, in whose 

 writings the whole range of the Australian flora is dealt with. 

 In my works, published as Government Botanist for this colony, 

 only the plants of Queensland are described. My principal 

 publications are a synopsis of the Queensland flora, to which 

 has been issued three supplements. The further additions to 

 the known flora of the colony are given in bulletins, of which 

 three have been published during the past year. Another handy 

 work issued on my authority is a catalogue of the indigenous 

 and naturalised plants. In these works both phanerogams and 

 cryptogams are included ; the latter, however, from the Order 

 Musci downwards, are all forwarded to European specialists for 

 final determination. 



Here may be noticed some of the principal collectors of 

 Queensland plants, whose herbarium specimens have been sent 

 to me as Government Botanist for determination. 



L. A. Bernays, in his connection with the Acclimatisation 

 Society, from its commencement, has done much towards the 

 collection of native plants, and personally, whenever travelling, 

 has made a point of collecting herbarium specimens. One of 

 the two Australian pitcher plants bears his name, Xepenthes 

 Bi'inai/aii, Bail. 



Edward Palmer made extensive collections of the Flinders 

 and Cloncurry plants, and published valuable papers on the uses- 



