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BOTANY OF THE PARRAMATTA DISTRICT: 



A paper read before the Australian Horticultural and Agricultural 

 Society, (1859.) 



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N the district of Parraniatta there are between seven and 

 eight hundred species of plants, more than one half of which 

 are exogenous. The Thalaminora? and the Monochlamydea3 are 

 nearly equal in number, being together about half as many as 

 the Calyciflorse and Corolliflorre, whilst the Endogenous plants 

 constitute rather more than a fourth of the Flora. The Crypto- 

 gamous plants, exclusive of Fungi and Alga?, amount in number 

 to about half of the Endogens. 



(I.) The first great division of Exogens, viz, the Thalaminora 1 , 

 presents to notice the representatives of twenty-five natural 

 families, and although not comprising any of the larger trees of 

 the district, it includes many shrubs which are well known to 

 the horticulturist. Perhaps as a family, the J&utacece afford 

 pome of the most elegant .shrubs in this division of the vegetable 

 kingdom, especially the genera Boronia, PJielaUum-, and Erioste- 

 mon. Many species of Boronia and Eriostemon have been culti- 

 vated, but there are few species of Plielaliiun to be met with in 

 gardens, although there are three in the district which are decid- 

 edly ornamental. Aclironyclda Icevis is a larger shrub and claims 

 attention as being the nearest representative of the Aurantiaceas. 

 Of the Dilleuiacece, there are several showy species, and Iliblertia 



