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Additions to the Flora of South 

 Australia. 



By Professor Ealph Tate, r.Gr.S., F.L.S., &c. 



FRead October 2, 1883.1 



The publication of Baron Sir F. von Mueller's " Systematic 

 Census of Australian Plants, Part I., Yasculares,'* has 

 brought to notice the occurrence of several plants hitherto 

 unrecorded for South Australia ; for these Baron Mueller has 

 obligingly furnished localities. A few species included in the 

 subjoined catalogue had been omitted from my " Census of 

 South Australian Plants" because their claims to rank as 

 indigenous constituents or as species, respectively, were at 

 that time not conclusively established. The rest of the 

 enumerated species are more recent accessions to the provincial 

 list, and their identifications have been made or approved by 

 Baron Mueller. The nomenclature herein used is adopted 

 from the " Systematic Census ;" from that work and manu- 

 script data supplied by Baron Mueller I have compiled the 

 following tables of comparative statistics : — 



Table showing total number indigenous in Australia and in 



each colony. 



The ratio of the Monocotyledons to the Dicotyledons is for 

 the whole flora 1 : 4"53, and is considerably greater than that 

 for these classes of the world's vegetation ; this is attributable 



