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ON THE CHARACTERISTICS AND DISTRIBUTION 



OP THE 



Native and Naturalised Plants 

 about ardrossan, 



yorke's peninsula. 



By Otto Tepper, E.L.S., Corr. Member. 



TEead April 6, 1880.] 



[Plate IV.] 



At the desire of the eminent botanist, Baron E. von Mueller, 

 K.C.M.G-., M. & Ph. D., F.E.S., Melbourne, I commenced in 

 the second half of last year to utilise some of my leisure by 

 collecting the plants of the neighbourhood of Ardrossan, with 

 the view thereby to elucidate the floral aspect of the Peninsula, 

 as a narrowly circumscribed and almost isolated area. Being 

 limited in time and means of locomotion, the area examined is 

 necessarily small, mainly comprised within a radius of three or 

 four miles. A few excursions have been made to Torke Valley 

 (two miles E. of Maitland) near the middle of the Peninsula, 

 and one to Kilkerran and the West Coast, in which I was 

 greatly assisted by Mr. "Wundersitz, to whose kindness my best 

 thanks are due. Another excursion was made to Muloowurtie 

 and Pine Point, but rather too late in the season. A few 

 plants were obtained from Kalkabury, 14 miles N.W. from 

 here. 



The dried specimens were forwarded to Baron F. v. Mueller, 

 who most obligingly named them, and afterwards revised their 

 arrangement. Considering the labour this entails, and the 

 increased scientific value it gives to the work, great thanks are 

 due to the honorary member. 



The accompanying " List of Plants" represents the results 

 of the undertaking ; but the whole of the Acotyledones are 

 omitted on account of incompleteness, with the exceptions of 

 the Eilices and Musci (four species), which I believe are all 

 that occur in the area examined. 



To the names of the plants are attached certain letters 

 mdicating the geological formations to which they most pre- 



