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ligustioum, astelia, gunnera, and other northerji or 

 western types, are not altogether missing, though 

 nowhere else to be found in Australia but in glacial 

 regions. 



About half a hundred of the highland plants are 

 strictly peculiar to Victoria ; the rest prove mainly 

 identical with Tasmanian species ; but a few of ours, 

 not growing in the smaller sister-land, are, strange 

 as it may appear, absolutely conspecific with Euro- 

 pean forms. Bather more than one hundred of the 

 lowland plants ascend, however, to the glacial regions ; 

 some of these are simultaneously desert-species. 



The only genus of plants absolutely peculiar to the 

 Victorian territory, Wittsteinia, occurs as a dwarf sub- 

 alpine plant, of more herbaceous than, woody growth, 

 restricted to the summits of Mount Baw-Baw ; this, 

 moreover, remained hitherto the only representative 

 of vaccinieee in all Australia j it produces, like most 

 of the order, edible berries. 



The verdant Summer - herbage of valleys, which 

 snow covers during the Winter months, will render 

 with increasing value of land- estates these free, airy, 

 and still retreats in time fully occupied as pasturage 

 during the warmer part of the year. Here, in shel- 

 tered glens, we have the means of raising all the 

 plants delighting in the coolest clime. Eye-culture 

 could probably be carried on at considerable eleva- 

 tion. 



Of all the phanei'ogamic plants of Tasmania, about 

 one hundred and thirty are endemic ; of those about 

 eighty are limited to alpine elevations, or descend 

 from thence only into cool, umbrageous valleys. The 

 generic types peculiar to the island are again almost 



