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hort, it is simply compilation; nevertheless it will 
ing class of persons wh 
ing a mere description of novelties. The kind of soil and general 
surroundings affected by each plant mentioned, points hitherto but 
little dwelt on, have been carefully recorded, and in a few cases— 
e.g., some of the genera of the Chloanthea, that curious tribe of 
Verbenacee—we are favoured with an elaborate clavis of the species, 
Most valuable, too, are the woodcuts intercalated with the text, of 
which there are no less than seventy grouped figures comprising 
memoir on the flora of the interior of Western Australia (Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xxxiv. p. 230), after collecting all references to plants 
gathered east of the one hundred and eighteenth degree of latitude 
(of the one hundred and nineteenth degree in the extreme south), 
found the said flora, as known at the time of writing (1898), to 
comprise 867 species of Phanerogams and vascular 
or 
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published under the auspices of the Mueller Botanical Society of 
Perth, and finally a few not new which have been found to extend 
i i i n all, we must conclude 
exaggerated, is really below the mark, and perhaps very much so. 
There are some curious omissions. Thus of Solanacee the only 
genus mentioned is Anthotroche (Duboisia onsi 
to 
reference to the Solanums, plants invariably found by me at the 
* onam rocks so frequent in the country. Asclepiadee haye no 
place at all in the memoir, and, though there are but few of them, 
