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3. South Australia. 



Maiden, J. H. — " A Century of Botanical Endeavour in South Australia," the 

 Presidential Address before Section D. (Rep. A.A.A.S., Adelaide, XI, 158, 1907), will 

 be found useful as regards papers bearing on the distribution of Eucalypts in that State. 



In the present connection the following Sections are especially referred to : — 



II. (p. 161). The beginning of botanical investigation in South Australia; the sea-coast. 

 III. (p. 167). Land explorations. 

 V. (p. 180). Definitions of Plant Eegions in South Australia : — 



1. "On the character of the South Australian Flora in general," by H. Behr, translated by Richard 



Kippist in Hooker's Journ. Bot., Ill, 129, 1851. 



2. " The Flora of South Australia, displayed in its fundamental features and comparatively." 



Letter from Dr. Ferd. Mueller (then) of Adelaide, in a letter to R. Kippist, communicated to 

 the Linnean Society and read, 7th December, 1852 (Hooker's Journ. Bot., V, 65). 



[Hooker, in his introductory essay to the " Flora of Tasmania," p. lv, has a note " On 

 the Flora of Countries around Spencer's Gulf."] 



3. " The Flora of South Australia," by R. Schomburgk. From the " Handbook of South 



Australia," Adelaide, 1875. 



4. " A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Ferns of Extra-Tropical South Australia," 



by Ralph Tate (Proc. Roy. Soc, S.A., III, 46-90, 1880). The first scientific geographical 

 flora of South Australia. He proposes geo-botanical divisions of South Australia. (See 

 p. 181 of my address.) 



In a presidential address to Section D (Rep. A.A.A.S., I, 312, 325, 1888) Prof. Tate 

 (see p. 182 of my address for a fair abstract) indicated the constituent elements of the 

 Australian Flora. 



Then we have his "A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and Vascular 

 Cryptogams of Extra-Tropical South Australia," with a map and definitions of certain plant- 

 regions (Proc. Roy. Soc, S.A., XII, 67-128, 1888-9). This was followed in 1890 by his 

 " Handbook of the Flora of . . . South Australia." 



5. " Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia," Part III 



(Geology and Botany, March, 1896), chiefly the work of Prof. Tate, and edited by Prof. 

 W. Baldwin Spencer. This gives a most interesting account of Plant Regions, and I have 

 abstracted it fairly fully at pages 183-187 of my address. 



Maiden, J. H. — " A Contribution to the Botany of South Australia," Trans. Roy. 

 Soc. S.A., XXXII, pp. 252-286 (1908). Special attention was given to the Eucalypts, 

 chiefly in the Port Lincoln district, Investigator Strait, and various islands rarely 

 visited by botanists. 



Osborn, T. G. B. — The article " Botany " in the South Australian Handbook, 

 British Association Meeting, 1914. A valuable account, pp. 251-262, of the ecology 

 of the State, including references to the distribution of the Eucalypts. 



