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PAPERS ON RANGE OR DISTRIBUTION. 



A select list of papers follows, dealing more or less with the distribution of the 

 Eucalypts. It is not suggested to be a bibliography of the genus. There are 

 interspersed in it some papers on " Plant Regions," a few mainly of historical interest, 

 but quoted for completeness' sake. 



1 . Australia in General. 



2. Western Australia. 



3. South Australia. 



4. Tasmania. 



5. Victoria. 



6. New South Wales. 



7. Queensland. 



8. Northern Territory. 



1. Australia in General. 



Bentham, G. "Flora Australiensis," Vol. Ill, (1866). The first account 

 published of the whole of the species then known, with keys, and the most comprehensive 

 account of their distribution. After a lapse of fifty-six years it remains quite 

 indispensable to the student of Eucalyptus. The descriptions are classical. See 

 also " The Distribution of Australian Plants," as sketched by Bentham in the Preface 

 to Vol. VII. The sketch is quite brief, but admirable, and refers to migration of plants 

 in general, and hardly mentions Eucalyptus. 



Hooker, J., to Darwin, in a letter, 24th November, 1881, in " Hooker's Life " : 



" He (Wallace) has done great things towards the explanation of the New Zealand Flora and Australian 

 but marred it by presuming a pre-existent S.-W. Australian Flora. I am sure that the Australian Flora is 

 very modern in the main, and the S.-W. pecularities are exaggerations due to long isolation during the 

 severance of the west from the east by the inland sea and straits that occupied the continent from Carpentaria 

 to the Great Australian Bight. I live in hope of showing by an analysis (botanical) of the Australian types 

 that they are all derived from the Asiatic continent." 



Mueller, F. " Fragmenta Phytographiae Australia," 11 Volumes and a Part 

 (1858-1882). In Latin, contains many notes as to the distribution of the genus. Vol. 

 II, 32-71 (1860) contains a valuable account of species hitherto described, of a few species 

 which later proved to have been previously described, and of the following new species : — 

 E. erythrocorys , E. eudesmioides , E. Oldfieldii, E. microcorys , E. doratoxylon. 



" Eucalyptographia," (1879-84), A quarto illustrated work of 100 species. 

 A classic. 



Maiden, J. H. " Australian Vegetation," being Chapter V of the Federal Hand- 

 book of Australia for the British Association Meeting of 1914. Notes under Eucalypts 

 at pp. 185, 186, and under individual States. The following remarks are taken from the 

 Introduction : — 



" The first impression of Australia is the vastness of its area — it covers about three millions (2,974,600) 

 of square miles, the area of the United States being 2,973,890, while that of Europe is 3,860,368 square miles- 

 The population of Europe is approximately 452 millions-, that of Australia being 4| millions ; while our 

 island continent is infinitely less intersected by gulfs, rivers, roads, and other means of communication. 

 It is, therefore, not to be surprised at that much country is imperfectly explored botanically, and generali- 

 sations have often to take the place of the statements of fact which are available in older and comparatively 

 densely populated territories. 



