PEEFACE. 



The issue o£ the " Synopsis of the Queensland Flora " having for some 

 time been exhausted, it has been deemed advisable to publish another and 

 more complete work concerning the plants of the Colony. This will be 

 issued in six parts, and each part will be accompanied by a few litho- 

 graphic plates. Part I., now issued, contains the Orders Eanunculacea) 

 to AnaeardiacesB. 



The arrangement is that of Bentham and Hooker's " Genera 

 Plantarum." Where plants are described in the " Flora Australiensis " 

 such descriptions are reproduced in full, with any needful further 

 descriptive notes which may have come to our knowledge since. In all 

 cases where Mb. Bentham gave notes of the genera or species such notes 

 I have considered far too important to leave out, so they will be found 

 generally intact. 



The explanation of systematic names, and the inclusion of aboriginal 

 and local names will doubtless prove acceptable ; and it is hoped that 

 the notes upon the economic and other properties will be found of 

 service. The authorities and references have been curtailed to little more 

 than works dealing with Australian plants. In a large number of cases 

 the names of works in which illustrations of certain plants may be found, 

 have been quoted ; and frequent references will be found to fungus 

 blights which have been observed upon the plants. With regard to 

 the localities where each plant has been found, only a few are recorded 

 for plants having a wide range, and seldom other than the names of the 

 earlier collectors are given. 



As in most works of this kind the right to republish Mb. Bentham's 

 excellent "Outlines of Botany" has been acquired from Messes. L. 

 Eeeve & Co., of London. 



The naturalised plants will be found numbered in with the 



indigenous species, but will be marked with an asterisk by way of 



distinction. Several strays from cultivation, which at present can 



scarcely be considered as naturalised, are also included. 



F.M.B. 

 T)ecemher, 1899. 



