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Ir will be seen from the additions recorded in this publication that 
our knowledge of the indigenous flora is gradually being extended. 
That the people are alive to the advantages of a knowledge of the 
-_ hative plants is fully proved by the great number of specimens sent 
in for determination ; and in these pages contributors will find those 
plants amongst their collectings which have proved new tothe Colony 
fully recorded. I would here remind correspondents that it is not 
only in the more distant parts of our Colony that fresh plants are 
_ likely to be met with, but even close at home ; even at our very doors, 
in a Colony like Queensland, fresh or even new species may be looked 
for. This is borne out by the new plants recorded in the present 
Bulletin, some of which have been obtained within 100 miles of 
Brisbane. I would, therefore, ask that the lovers of plants in all 
parts of our Colony will spare a little time now and again to collect 
and forward to me specimens of the plants of their immediate neigh- 
bourhood, and if these are numbered and duplicates kept, I shall have 
gteat pleasure in returning names to numbers where such may be 
required. In replying to this request they will be helping to make 
known the riches of the Queensland flora. It would also be of further 
advantage if, correspondents would, where possible, furnish me with 
the native or local names of the plants, and also what may be known 
of their properties. I would again express my thanks to those cor- 
respondents from whom I am constantly receiving specimens, and 
Point out that aithough much has been done towards working up our 
hative plants, much further requires to be accomplished before we can 
take a comprehensive view of the vast and rich flora of this part of 
the Australian continent. 
F. M. B. 
May, 1892. 
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