PHYSIOGRAPHY OF SOUTH GIPPSLAND. 



"Wilson's Promontory. — Meteorological Data, 1892. 



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THE VEGETATION OF SOUTH GIPPSLAND. 

 The more arboreous slirub vegetation of Sovith Gippsland is 

 common to eastei-n Victoria and the sub-alpine areas of the Aus- 

 tralian Aljjs, and a large portion is identical with that flourishing 

 in portion of the lowlands and less elevated mountains of Tasmania. 

 We have even a New Zealand type in Hedycara Cunnhghami, 

 along with such exclusively continental species as Hoivittia frilo- 

 cularis, Panax sambucifolius , Sparganium angustifoUum, Otfeliu 

 ovatifolia, Leptorrhynchus tenuifolius. Acacia pycnantha. Eucalyp- 

 tus mocrorryncha, E. Leucoxylnn, E. Mellidora, E. Gonicalyx, E. 

 rostrata, Aviceniiia Officinalis, Solanutn armatum, S. pungentum 

 Myrsene variabilis, which do not extend to Tasmania ; there are 

 also many cons^iicuous Tasmanian forms which do not occm- in 

 Victoria. 



2.— THE FIRST CROSSING OF THE AUSTRALIAN 

 CONTINENT BY J. McDOUALL STUART, WITH 

 NOTES AND REMINISCENCES OF THE EX- 

 PLORATION. 



By P. A VLB. 



