PAST, PRESENT, A\D FUTDRE OF THE ADSTUALIAN FLORA. 



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Grammitis Billardieri (Willd.) 



„ heterophi/lla (Lal^ill.) 

 Polypodium diversifolinm (Willd.) 

 ,, quercifolium (Liiiii.) 



„ ruqulosum (Labill.) 



Lomaria nuda (Willd.) 

 Asplenium decurrens (Willd.) 



,, flabellifolium, (Cav.) 



Pteris vespertilionis (Labill.) 



„ escidenta (Forst.) 

 Blechnum cartilagineum (Swartz.) 

 „ Icevigatum (Ca,v.) 



Blechnum procenim (Labill.) 

 Woodivardia caudata (Cav.) 

 Lindscea lanceolata (Labill.) 



„ microphjiUa (Swartz.) 



,, lunata (Willd.) 

 Adiantum hispididum (Swartz.) 



„ assimile (Swartz.) 

 Davallia pyxidata (Cav.) 

 Dicksonia antarctica (Labill.) 

 Hymenophylhi,7nflaheUat((in{ljVib\\\.) 

 „ australe (Willd.) 



Wlien WilldenoAv's list, of Austniliaii plants is compared 

 with tlie descriptions given in the seveii volumes of the 

 Flora Australienns and the eleven volumes of Fragmenta by 

 Baron von ]\Iueller, as well as with the Census of Australian 

 plants by the same author, some idea may be formed of the 

 wonderful progTess Avhich has been made in Australian 

 botany since the beginning of the centm-y. From 1800 to 

 1810, Caley continued the great work of collecting speci* 

 mens and of developing the rarities of a new Flora ; but it 

 remained for Allan Cunningham to traverse parts of Australia 

 unknown to his predecessors and to transmit to Europe 

 seeds and plants not previously discovered. He was a man 

 of taste and energy, and from his arrival in 181G to his death 

 in 1839, he exerted himself to promote the great object of 

 his mission, first as '* Botanical Collector to the Royal Garden 

 at Kew," and subsequently as Colonial Botanist and Director 

 of the Botanical Garden in Sydney. In these capacities he 

 did much to develop the resources of Australia, and as settle- 

 ments were being established in Western and Southern 

 Australia, as well as at Port PhiUip (now Victoria), the extent 

 and variety of the Australian Flora became more and more 

 manifest through the labours of professional or amateur 

 botanists, and a new industry, viz., that of collecting seeds 

 for exportation to different parts of the world, was estab- 

 lished in the colony. Thus, in various Avays, continual 

 additions were made to the knoAvledge of Australian plants ; 

 and as their floral beauties increased under the fostering 

 care of cultivation, they have obtained a favourable place in 

 the greenhouses and hot houses of Europe. 



It is only of late, as already noticed, that the extent of 

 the Flora has been fiilly known, for until the publication ot 

 Baron von Mueller's Census, the number of species and their 

 respective distribution were matters of uncertainty. Now 



