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putecl property for the delectation of native birds. To tin: hilly, and particularly to 

 the riparian tracts, extends from East Australia to St. Vincent's Gulf the evcr-r.-i-n 

 Chinese Raspberry Bush, but, like so many other Eastern plants, it does not cross the 

 waterless country around the great Bight. 



The JXardoo, of sad renown in connection 

 with the fate of Burke and Wills (Marsilea), 

 is confined to moist localities, and there common 

 enough; but its hard fruit, with gelatinous con- 

 tents, is fit only for emus, nor does its some- 

 what clover-like foliage serve any feeding purposes. 



Through most parts of extra-tropic Australia 

 are dispersed, and in many places prominent, a 

 host of herbs, which, while reiterating generic 

 types of Britain, might pass by the names under 

 which they are commonly known, as the 



Buttercup, Mousetail, Bfc^t y 



Bitter-cress, Violet, Storks- 

 bill, Cranesbill, Flax, St. 

 John's Wort, Pellitory, 

 Stitch Wort, Dock, Cud- 

 weed, Woodruff, Bell-flower, 

 Centati ry, Bind-weed, For- 

 get-me-not, Heliotrope, 

 Dog's-tongue, Gipsy Wort, 

 Germander and Mint ; to 

 which might be added, as 

 having even at home no 

 well-recognized or accept- 

 able popular names, one or 

 more species of the genera 

 Po lygo 11 it in. /f ry no- in ;//, 

 Galium, Samolus, Scutcl- 



laria, Prunella, Epilobhun, (the latter in forms 

 demonstrative of the utmost variability) as well as 

 various aquatic weeds, among them the spiral- 

 stalked Vallisneria, the mucilaginously coated ex- 

 tra-European Cabomba, further many sedges and 

 grasses of familiar British feature, in some cases 

 con-specific. Far south also a Maidenhair-Fern 

 reminds us of European homes, so the coast Spleen- 

 wort, the Asfileniuiti Trichouiancs, the I fyincno- 

 phyllum Tiinhrid^ciixc, and, to some extent, the 

 Trichomancs vcnosum. Closely akin to the "Royal Fern," as regards botanic position, yet widely 

 different in aspect, is the Osmnnda, or Todca barbara, of some of our secluded and irrigated glens. 



THE sn.vKK-iiusii (Clematis Arista to). 



