156 FOREST CULTURE AND 
plants which delight to be bathed in clouds, or in the 
dense vapors of the surrounding Fern-tree valleys, 
are much more universal; and that the number of 
peculiar alpine genera is much greater than here. 
Thus, while in Tasmania the magnificent Evergreen 
Beech (Fagus Cunninghami) covers many of the 
ranges up to sub-alpine rises, it predominates as a for- 
est-tree in Victoria only at the remotest sources of 
the Yarra, the Latrobe, and the Goulburn rivers, and 
on Mount Baw-Baw. ‘To this outpost of the Austra- 
lian Alps (now so accessible to metropolitan tourists) 
are restricted also several plants, such as Oxalis Ma- 
gellanica and Libertia Lawrencii, which are almost 
universal on all the higher hills of Tasmania. Fagus 
Cunninghami, though descending into our Fern- 
tree ravines, transgresses nowhere the Victorian land- 
boundaries, but a noble fagus-forest, constituted by a 
distinct and equally evergreen species, Fagus Moorei, 
crowns the high ranges on which the Bellinger and 
M’Leay riversrise. This, however, the snowy moun- 
tains of Tasmania and of continental Australia have 
in common, that the majority of the alpine plants are 
not representing genera peculiar to colder countries, 
but exhibit hardy forms, referable to endemic Austra- 
lian genera, or such as are allied to them. So, as al- 
ready remarked, we possess alpine species, even of 
Eucalyptus and of Acacia, besides of hibbertia, oxylo- 
bium, bossiza, pultenza, eriostemon, boronia didiscus, 
epacris, leucopogon, prostanthera, grevillea, hakea, 
persoonia, pimelea, kunzea, baeckea, stackhousia, 
mitrasacme, xanthosia, coprosma, velleya, prasophyl- 
lum; yet anemone, caltha, antennaria, gaultheria, 
alchemilla, seseli, @nothera, huanaca, abrotanella, 
