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ligusticum, astelia, gunnera, and other northern or 
western types, are not altogether missing, though 
nowhere else to be found in Australia but in glacial 
regions. 
About half a hundred of the highland plants are 
strictly peculiar to Victoria; the rest prove mainly 
identical with Tasmanian species ; but a few of ours, 
not growing in the smaller sister-land, are, strange 
as it may appear, absolutely conspecific with Euro- 
pean forms. Rather more than one hundred of the 
lowland plants ascend, however, to the glacial regions ; 
some of these are simultaneously desert-species. 
The only genus of plants absolutely peculiar to the 
Victorian territory, Wittsteinia, occurs as a dwarf sub- 
alpine plant, of more herbaceous than woody growth, 
restricted to the summits of Mount Baw-Baw; this, 
moreover, remained hitherto the only representative 
of vaccinies in all Australia; it produces, like most 
of the order, edible berries. 
The verdant Summer- herbage of valleys, which 
snow covers during the Winter months, will render 
with increasing value of land-estates these free, airy, 
and still retreats in time fully occupied as pasturage 
during the warmer part of the year. Here, in shel- 
tered glens, we have the means of raising all the 
plants delighting in the coolest clime. Rye-eulture 
could probably be carried on at considerable eleva- 
tion. 
Of all the phanerogamic plants of Tasmania, about 
one hundred and thirty are endemic; of those about 
eighty are limited to alpine elevations, or descend 
from thence only into cool, umbrageous valleys. The 
generic types peculiar to the island are again almost 
