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place, or, as in the case of Limnantkemum exaltation, peculiarly Australian species being 

 substitutes of the European. As regards marine Algs, this part of the world can boast 

 of the richest flora anywhere in existence, not only in number of species, but also 

 in beauty of colouration and delicacy of structure, our C landed, with its reticular sail- 

 shaped red fronds, proliferously branched, being 

 considered the most handsome of sea-weeds in 

 the world. In greatest copiousness they are 

 met along our Continental south coast ; but 

 the Algic flora of Tasmania and New Zea- 

 land generally is splendid in the extreme. 



In turning now more particularly to the 

 New South Wales vegetation, it may be re- 

 membered that it was on the classic ground 

 at Botany Bay, where Banks and Solander 



during a few clays' stay in 

 April, i//o, beheld for the 

 first time the marvels of 

 entirely new vegetation, 

 which, with their dis- 

 criminating knowledge as 

 naturalists, they could at 

 once understand and ap- 

 preciate. It was from 

 thence, that at the end of 

 the last and at the begin- 

 ning of this century, such 

 garden favourites as sev- 

 eral (particularly phyllo- 

 dinous) species of Acacia, 

 the Callistemon lanceloatus, 

 the Myrtle -like Jingcnia 

 Australis, Ilclichrvsnin lu- 

 ciduni, Tccoina Austral is, 



Dendrobium speciosum, Bauera, Corrca, Kcnncdya, Sprcn- 

 gelia, Woollsia, and more than one Eriostcnwn, found 

 their way into the conservatories of Europe, where they 

 have maintained their place ever since. Subsequently, 

 THE WARATAH, the conservatories of Europe became enriched with the 



(Tclopea Speciocissima). ta n Spear-Lily (Doryanthcs\ magnificently flowering in 



big red clusters, or spikes, and soon followed the less pretensive Blandfordias and 

 Fringe-Lilies ( '/'/tysanohts), the Hoveas, Actinotus, Pimelcas, Staghorn-fern, and a host of 

 other showy plants ; while what ornamental culture would disdain was eagerly accepted for 

 University gardens to study, for the purpose of science in a living state, the often quaint but 

 always instructive organization of Australian plants, recalling to mind the forms of olden times. 





