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AUSTRALASIA ILL I 'STRA TED. 



Richness of ferns commences in Continental Australia only about Cape Otway; they are 

 trending thence through the coastal tracts eastward, until augmented in glorious multi- 

 tude they become displayed throughout the littoral forests of Queensland. Mcliacctr, 

 Olcnincic, AcanthaccfC, lUicnaccu, f 



Styraicu", Pipcraccec, Aroidctc, /^ ~^^ 



and Comtnclinccc, though ap- 

 proaching Gippsland boundary, 

 have not been found anywhere 



MAKIANTHUS BIGNONIACEUS. 



in Victoria, nor Cycadca', the latter 

 disappearing from Twofold Bay to 

 Esperance Bay, for the Zuinia 

 figured by Westall i)rominently 

 in the picture of Port Lincoln 

 (accompanying " Flinders' Voy- 

 age ") has never been re-found. 

 Like the Snowdrop at home, 

 so the Wurmbea appears here 

 as the first harbinger of spring, 

 but in numbers far more vast, 

 still even it may be forestalled 

 by some early flowering Acacias, 

 soon to be followed by various 

 grass-lilies, such as the white- 

 blossomed Burckardia, the blue- 



