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Maiden. J. H. — t: An alphabetical list of Victorian Eiicalypts," Proc. Roy. Soc, 

 Vict.. XXXIV (N.S.W.), 73-84 (1922). 



6. New South Wales. 



" Some data towards the Botanical Geography of New Holland," by Dr. John 

 Lhotsky, late of the Civil Service in New Holland (1S42). 



' New Holland " really means New South Wales in this paper, which is the 

 earliest of the kind known to me. Nos. 2 and 3 refer to the Illawarra and southern 

 tableland respectively. He proposes the following plant regions : — 



1. " First Class. The coast vegetation from Sydney south to Illawarra. Its subsoil is the almost 

 shifting sand of the places contiguous to the sea-coast ; or rocks of coal-sandstone, either naked or very 

 slightly covered with earth ; or it may be seen occurring around those small ponds of salt or brackish water ? 

 which are exceedingly common in these districts. In such localities as these the Epacris, Boronia, 

 Dillwynia, Gompholobium, Xanthorrma, Hakea, Grevillea, Persoonia, Lambertia, Astroloma, Lomatia, 

 Comesperma, Leucopogon, and Xerotes are prevalent and characteristic tribes, while no kind of forest-tree 

 except the Eucalypti is visible. The above-named plants grow in such dense masses that men and cattle 

 penetrate with difficulty, presenting a striking analogy with the plains of South Africa. The stiff and dry 

 nature of the foliage prevents their being applied to any economic purposes. 



2. " Second Class. Vegetation of Rocky Gullies near the Sea-coast. In these localities, a small 

 number of springs may be seen, which feed the few creeks on the sea-coast. This moisture, whether 

 permanent or periodical, generates a series of plants, not met with elsewhere. In such gullies, and the 

 small flats surrounded by them, appear the only two kinds of Palms that are indigenous to Australia. Here 

 the Corypha (Livistona) australis rears its annulated stem to a height of 100 feet, and the Seqforthia 

 (Archontophcenix) attains an equal stature, but with a thicker and smoother trunk. The arborescent Fern 

 (AlsopMla) likewise affects these spots; also that splendid ornament of Australian vegetation, Doryanthes 

 excelsa, the Tasmania (Drimys), Callicoma, besides the few Australian species of Rubiacea) and Malvacece 

 here occur. 



3. " Third Class. The Argyle Vegetation. It may be seen and is characteristic of all those park- 

 like spots, with their stately Eucalyptus trees growing at some little distance from each other, with very 

 little underwood ; places so peculiar that they have struck all travellers, from Tasnran down to the wanderers 

 of the present day. This vegetation prevails upon every kind of rock, which, by its easy decomposition and 

 the alumine which it contains, is capable of being converted into soil; as Greywacke, Trap, Limestone, 

 Granite, &c. The coal-sandstone is uncongenial to it, because, containing so much silica, nothing but the 

 scanty growth described as belonging to the First Class can thrive upon it. 



4. " Fourth Class. The Minero (Monaro, J.H.M.) Vegetation. This comprehends the flora of the 

 Downs of that name surrounding the Upper Murrumbidgee and Snowy Eivers, and it is also diffused over 

 the plains and flats at the foot of the Alps. In these downs chiefly resides the richness of New South Wales. 

 so far as grazing is concerned ; they stretch on the east side of the Alps for about a hundred miles, containing 

 many level or slightly depressed plains, which measure from three to seven miles, without break or 

 interruption, till the traveller reaches a slight ridge of dividing hills, skirted again on the other side by 

 similar tracts. With the exception of Hakea and Brunonia, no shrub of any size can be descried, and it 

 appears certain that either these plains have been only lately heaved out of the sea, or else that the granitic 

 gravel which overspreads them must be the result of some very recent geological trituration, for trees appear 

 to have had no time to establish themselves thereon. 



5. " Fifth Class. Alpine Vegetation. It begins in the valleys of the Alps and reaches their 

 summits; amalgamating on one side with that of the meadows of Minero Downs, and terminating on the 

 -ther in a point which our present state of knowledge will not allow us to overstep. I have traced it to 



