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patcli of the same plants. There were some dozens, all growing 

 close together, about 150 yards from the George's Bay side 

 of the Scamander Bridge. 



I was imfortunately unable to obtain access to a copy of 

 Bentham's Flora Austrahensis, to assist me in identifying 

 the plant, so sent specimens to Dr. Mueller by Mr. Thos. 

 Stephens, and received from the Baron the identification 

 given below. 



As I had camped for some time near where I first found 

 the plant, and on the day of finding it had had a good search 

 round for more specimens, without success, I conclude it is 

 of rare occurrence, especially as there are few spots near 

 George's Bay, and along the road between Falmouth and 

 George's Bay, which I have not frequently carefully searched 

 for botanical specimens, without ever before finding it. 



The largest specimens were about six inches in height ; 

 some but slightly branched, others like small dense 

 shrubs. 



Extract from Baron von Mueller's letter of the 9th May, 

 1881 :— 



" This most interesting addition to our collections of 

 Tasmanian plants, now Zieria veronica, was already described 

 by me in the transactions of the Phil. Soc. of Victoria i., 

 p. 11, in 1854. This again shows, like the discovery of Verbena 

 officinalis near Launceston, that even the localities near 

 largely inhabited settlements in your main island are not yet 

 exhaustively searched for plants : how inucli may thus yet 

 turn up if the unsettled places in King's and Flinder's 

 Islands together with your smaller isles become well searched, 

 not to speak of interior portions of N.W. Tasmania, with its 

 botanically almost unexplored alpine heights." 



THE IMPKOVEMENT OP THE QUEEN'S DOMAIN. 

 By E. J. Ceouch, M.E.C.S. Eng. 



Bead IMh June, 1881. 



This is not the first time that the subject on which I intend 

 to read a paper (namely, the Queen's Domain, and suggestions 

 for its improvement) has been before your Society. I may 

 mention that this matter was brought Ijcfore your notice in 

 the year 1875, when it was very warmly discussed by the 

 public at that time, and several letters were read before your 

 Society ; still, I regret to say, very little has been done since 

 then to beautify a spot that is certainly so well adapted to be 



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