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Brown's plant with that of Labillardiere by comparison of 

 original specimens. 



*AtripIea; paludosuj7t, E. Br. prodr. 406. Port Dalrymple ; 

 E. Brown. Existing probably in many other localities of the 

 muddy coasts. 



'^Polygonum lajyathifoUum^ L. sp.pl. 517. Port Dalrymple; 

 E. Brown. 



Australina pusilla, Gandich. in Freyc. voy. botanique, p. 

 505. Huon Eoad, beyond Mount Wellington ; S. Hannaford. 



Fagus Gumili, J. Hook. icon, plant, t. 881. Eldon's Eange j 

 Hon. J. E, Scott and Th. Gulliver. 



*Casuarina hicuspidata, Benth. fl. Austr. vi. 202. Flinders' 

 Island ; E. Brown. This species has been added here as be- 

 longing to the Tasmanian flora on Mr. Bentham's authority. 

 The plant is as yet very imperfectly known. 



Dacrydium tetragonum, Parlatore in Cand. prodr. xvi. 496. 

 (Microcachrys tetragona, J. Hook. fl. Tasm. i. 358, tab. 100 

 B ; J. Hook in bot. magaz. tab. 5576.) Eldon's Eange and 

 Mount Olympus up to 4,400 feet ; Th. Gulliver. The beau- 

 tiful crimson colour of the fresh mature fruit-scales, as recorded 

 in the pages of the E. S. of Tasmania (1870, p. 19), is a 

 character by which the fruit is conspicuously distinguished 

 from that of Pherosphsera. In dwarfness this coniferous plant 

 has only rivals in the N. Z. Dacrydium laxifolium, and in the 

 alj^ine state of Juniperus communis (J. nana. Willd. sp. pi. iv. 

 p. 854), which latter bears fruits already at a height of four 

 inches. There must, however, in this comparison with Juni- 

 perus not be overlooked, that, while Juniperus nana is creeping 

 and dwarf like the Microcachrys, it passes gradually into the 

 tall Juniperus communis, which is known to attain a height 

 of 50 feet, just as the dwarf Exocarpus nana of Tasmania 

 passes through E. humifusa into the tall Exocarpus cupressi- 

 formis. In the abstract sense, therefore, Tasmania possesses 

 in Microcachrys probably the dwarfest coniferous plant of the 

 globe. 



JPlierosp]iaeraSooheriana,KxQ\iQx in J. Hook, fl. Tasm. i. 355, 

 tab. IC. Parlatore in Cand. prodr. xvi. 497. Found along 

 with Dacrydium tetragonum and Diselma Archeri by Messrs. 

 Gulliver. The plant might well be placed sectionally into the 

 genus Dacrydium, notwithstanding the position of the ovules 

 and the want of the disc, the latter being neither developed 

 in Dacrydium Kirkii of New Zealand. 



Athrotaxis selaginoides, D. Don in transact. Linn. Soc. 

 xviii, 172, t. 14. On Mount Olympus and Eldon's Eange up 

 to 4,500 feet ; Hon. J. E. Scott and Th. Gulliver. 



Nagaia alpina, F.v.M. Podocarpus alpina E. Br. in Mem. du 

 Mus. Paris, xvii., 75. Summit of Mount Olympus ; Gulliver. 



