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a census of the 



Indigenous Flowering Plants and 



Ferns 



oe extea-tkopical south australia. 



By Professor Ralph Tate, Assoc. Lin. Soc, F.G.S., &c, 

 President. 



LKead February 3, 1880.] 



Introductory and Explanatory Remarks. — In 1875 there 

 appeared Dr. Schomburgk's "Flora of South Australia," in 

 which is included a catalogue of the flowering plants and 

 ferns of South Australia, mostly compiled from the " Flora 

 Australiensis," vols. 1 to 6. Since then vol. 7 of that 

 work has been published, and numerous additions to the 

 flora of this province have been made by Messrs. Giles, 

 Tietkins, Young, Tepper, Kempe, Mrs. Richards, and others. 

 These accessions, as well as the necessary corrections to 

 Dr. Schomburgk's list, render a revised census much to be 

 desired. Despite the imperfections of my list, yet I believe 

 it will be exceedingly useful as furnishing a good basis 

 for further additions. Tt is one to be improved upon, and 

 some years hence, when the inland vegetation will have become 

 exhaustively known and the geographical range of the larger 

 number of our indigenous plants better defined, a new edition 

 will be required. 



The present census is compiled from the "Flora Austra- 

 liensis " by Mr. Bentham, and from the " Fragmenta Phyto- 

 graphise" and other works, by Baron F. von Mueller, and from 

 manuscript notes kindly communicated by the latter gentleman. 

 It contains the names of all indigenous flowering plants and 

 ferns and their immediate allies authentically known to occur 

 in the extra-tropical part of this colony. The undoubted 

 alien species are omitted, and may at some future time form a 

 supplementary list to be published under the auspices of this 

 Society. 



The list has been revised by Baron F. von Mueller, and the 

 ordinal arrangement and nomenclature are for the most part 

 in accord with that gentleman's matured researches. As the 

 sequence of the orders is materially different from that followed 



