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association, not identified until now. It is a true turf 

 in different stages and with a very ricli flora, consisting 

 chiefly of Restiaceae, Cyperaceae, etc., with .son e Eja- 

 cridaceae, Dilleniaceae, small Myrtaceae, Burmannia disticha, 

 Utricularia, Drosera, etc. Turf-moss (Sphagnum) is usually 

 not present, but sometimes it is present in large quantities 

 (f.i., Stradbroke Island). 



4. Limestone flora. I had opportunity to examane the 

 limestone country near Chillagoe, where on the limestone 

 bluffs is a type of flora quite diiierent from all associations 

 mentioned above. There are many plants peculiar to these 

 parts. The flora consists of many shrubs and small trees, 

 and has so many peculiarities that it would require a special 

 lecture to give only the rough outlines of its general char- 

 acter. I was glad to make the first botanical investigations 

 of great extent in this very interesting country. 



5. There is a special flora on the rocks along the coast 

 of Queensland, but it is not much developed. In the Glass- 

 houses this association has some interesting members 

 {Micraira suhuli folia, Eriostemon myoporoides, Grevillea 

 leiophylla, Dodonaea vestita, Melaleuca Luehmanni, besides the 

 commoner rock plants, as CheilaMlies , Polypcdium rigi- 

 dulum, Peperomia, Plectranthus , etc.) 



In the North there are hardly more than 20 character- 

 istic species accompanying the rocks. 



Let me now say som^e few words about the evolution 

 of the flora of Queensland. We find, in Australia three dif- 

 ferent elements represented in a very unequal degree in 

 the flora of the different States. There is, first, the true 

 Australian element ; second, the so-called Antarctic element 

 (named so hy Hooker) ; and, last, the Malayan (including the 

 Papuan) element. The second element, which is of such 

 great importance for the flora of Xew Zealand and the moun- 

 tains in the south-east corner of Australia, is (with a few 

 exceptions, as for instance, DracopTiyllum Sayeri on the 

 top of Bellenden Ker), not represented in Queensland. 

 Both the other elements are in Queensland well represented, 

 and the Malayan element is in no other State so rich as 

 here. The Australian element, which attains its highest 

 evolution in Western Australia, must be regarded as the 

 true old Australian flora ; in Queensland it is spread over 

 the drier districts and is especially rich in Southern Queens- 



