PREFATORY REMARKS, 
hp 
i 
‘I take the opportunity here afforded of thanking my numerous 
correspondents for their kindness in continuing to send me specimens 
of the indigenous plants. As may be expected, many of these prove 
only old well-known species, and so will not be found recorded in these 
publications ; such specimens, however, come in for purposes of 
exchange with foreign parts, and therefore have a value. From parts 
which have been but casually or not at all collected over is where new 
species may be looked for, and it is particularly from such localities 
. that I would solicit specimens. It must be borne in mind that, meet- 
4 ing with fresh species, much depends upon the time of year, and also 
a the weather ; one collector may pass over a locality and find nothing 
worth collecting, whereas another person going over the same ground 
month or so later, or after a fall of rain, may find it rich in rare or 
&W species. I would again remind collectors that shoots bearing 
aves alone are useless for determination; all specimens sent to a 
tanist should bear flower or fruit—both if possible. I am also 
aXxious to receive, whenever such are obtainable, the local or native 
Tames, and also information upon the known or recorded medicines or 
other virtues the plants are supposed to possess. 
Just as this Bulletin was ready for press, we received news 
Of the death of Baron von Mueller, whose name is so indelibly 
“ngraved upon every page of the Australian flora that it forms 
*Monument to his memory more lasting than stone. As, pro- 
ly, his oldest Australian friend, I need only say that I join 
With all fellow-workers in expressing deep sorrow for his rather 
‘Sudden death, which happened on Saturday, LOth October, 1896. 
F.M.B. 
