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Plants Indigenous in the Neighbourhood of Sgdneg, arranged according 



to the system of Baron P. von Mueller. By W. Woolly 

 Ph.D., F.L.S. Sydney : T. Kichards. 1880. 



This small brochure of sixty pages is of more interest than might 

 be suspected from its title, inasmuch as it contains the skeleton of 

 an arrangement of the vegetable kingdom, differing in some parti- 

 culars from those usually accepted, and partially elaborated in 

 Baron von Mueller's < Native Plants of Victoria,'- of which the 

 first part only has yet appeared. It may be interesting to system- 

 atists to compare this with other systems, and we have therefore 

 extracted the diagnoses of the main groups, under which the 

 Natural Orders are arranged in a somewhat unusual sequence, the 

 apetalous groups being placed near those orders to which they bear 

 the closest alliance, and the Amyliferae (or Curvembryonatse) being 

 brought closely together. 



The enumeration of species consists simply of a list of names ; 



the numerical result of Dr. Woolls' investigations is summed up 

 thus : — 



Orders. Genera. Species. 



Dicotyledonero 83 327 804 



MonocotyledoneaB 21 137 334 



Acotyledoneffl 4 29 70 



108 423 1208 



Naturalised species 127 



Total number of species 1335 



The number of cryptogams recorded is comparatively small, 

 and will doubtless be greatly extended ; we believe that the un- 

 tiring Baron von Mueller has brought together much material for 

 a Flora of the Australian Continent. The list of plants which 

 have become naturalised in the county of Cumberland is very 

 extensive and varied, amounting to about one-twelfth of the entire 



flora as here Pnmnovafo^ 



a as here enumerated. 



The following is the arrangement referred to : 



I. Dicotyledonous Plants. 



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Orders of dicotyledonous plants, which, with some exceptions, 

 have disunited petals or no petals, stamens inserted on the bottom 

 °f the calyx and at the base of the ovary, and the fruit free from 

 the calyx. 



1. Kanunculace©. 2. Nymphaeace©. 3. Dilleniacere. 4. Mag- 

 noliaceae. 5. Anonace©. 6. Moniiniace©. 7. Laurace®. 8. Mem- 

 spermeie. 9. Papaverace©. 10. Crucifene. 11. Violace*. 

 «• Pittosporeas. 13. Droserace©. 14. Hypericme©. 15. Poly- 



gale©. 16. Treniandre©. 17. Meliace©. 18. Eutace©. 19. Lines*. 



* Seti Ji.uru. But., 1*79, p. ;il?. 



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