in Australia.] INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. XCVll 
Of the 227 genera and 148 species here enumerated, by far the larger proportion are natives 
of many other parts of the globe, including all those found also in Tropical India, but there is still 
left a list of 38 species so notably characteristic of northern Europe, and so rare, if present at all, 
in warm or southern Asia, that they at once challenge further investigation. These are, excluding 
such marsh- and water-plants as Potamogeton, Scirpus, Isolepis, etc., and others, which inhabit all hot 
countries as well as cold : — 
Draba nemoralis. All Europe, and Eussian Asia. 
Cardamine pratensis. Europe, Russian Asia, and Arctic America. 
Hutchinsia procumbem. Europe, Western Asia, Mediterranean, Patagonia. 
Sisymbrium thalianum. Europe, Eussian Asia, and North America. 
Stellaria glauca, Europe, Eussian Asia, and North America, 
Sagina procumbens. Europe, Eussian Asia, Himalaya, North America, Fuegia. 
Geranium dissectum. Europe, Eussian Asia, North America, Euegia. 
Lotus comiculatus. Europe, Eussian Aaia. 
Geum urbanum. Europe, Eussian Asia, Himalaya, New Zealand, Fuegia. 
Potentilla anserina. Europe, Eussian and Central Asia, N. America, Arc. & Antarc. regions, N. Zeal. 
Alchemilla arvensis. Europe, Western Asia. 
Alchemilla vulgaris. Northern and Arctic Europe and Asia, Ceylon, and Peninsula of India. 
Epilobium tetragonum. Temperate and Subarctic Europe, Asia, and N. and S. America, N. Zealand. 
Lythrum Salicaria. Europe, North and Central Asia, North and South America, and South Africa. 
Moutia fontana. Europe, North Asia, North American Andes, New Zealand, Kerguelen's Land. 
Sium latifolium. Europe, North Asia. 
Bidens cernua. Europe, North Asia, Himalaya, North America. 
Picris hieracioides. Europe, Central Asia, Himalaya, New Zealand. 
Calystegia sepium. Temperate Europe, North Asia, North America, New Zealand, Fuegia. 
Prunella vulgaris. Temperate Europe, Asia, North America, Himalaya. 
Lycopus Europeeus. Temperate Europe, Asia, North America, Himalaya. 
Lysimachia vulgaris. Northern Europe and Eussian Asia. 
Samolus Yalerandi. Europe, North Asia, Temperate and Tropical North and South America, Fuegia. 
Alisma Plantago. Northern and Arctic Europe, Asia, America, and North-west India. 
Actinocarpus Damasonum, var. ? {A. Damasonum, in South-west Europe, Central Asia). 
Juncus communis. Temperate northern hemisphere, India, South Africa, New Zealand. 
Juncus bufonius. Temperate northern hemisphere, India. 
Juncus maritimus. Temperate and North Europe, Asia, North America, New Zealand, Fuegia. 
Luzula campestris. Temperate and Arctic Europe, Asia, America, New Zealand. 
Cares stellulata. Temperate and Arctic Europe, Asia, America, New Zealand. 
Carex Buxbaumii. Northern and Arctic Europe, Asia, America. 
Alopecurus geniculatus. Europe, North and Central Asia, New Zealand. 
Hierochloe borealis. Arctic Europe, Asia, America, New Zealand. 
Deschampsia ccespitosa. Northern and Arctic Europe, Asia, Fuegia, New Zealand. 
Trisetum subspicatum. Arctic and Alpine Europe, North America, Asia, America, Antarctic regions. 
Gljceria, Jluitans. Temperate and Arctic Europe, Asia, America. 
Kceleria cristata. Central and South Europe, N. Asia, Temperate N. America, New Zealand, Fuegia. 
Festuca duriuscula. Temperate Arctic Europe, America, northern Asia, Andes, New Zealand, Fuegia. 
With one exception {Trisetum subspicatum) these are all British, a great many are the only 
examples of their genus in Australia, and only three are water-plants. None of them are found 
