94 AUSTRALIAN BOTANY. 



GLOSSARY. 



Appended is a short account of every plant mentioned in 

 the foregoing lessons, alphabetically arranged according 

 to their common names. It was no part of the design of 

 this elementary work that a botanical description of the 

 plants enumerated should be included. By giving, as is 

 done, the botanical name and the name of the natural 

 order to which each plant belongs, the teacher or student 

 is readily enabled to refer to more extended works on 

 descriptive botany, in order to obtain that technical infor- 

 mation which could not possibly be compressed within the 

 limits of this book. The main object of the glossary is to 

 give a short description of each plant alluded to in the 

 lessons: preference in point of length being conceded to 

 those indigenous to Victoria or Australia generally. Many 

 of the plants mentioned in lists — ' Principal plants of 

 economic value,' ' Wild plants around Melbourne,' and 

 ' Chapter on Australian Vegetation ' — are not described in 

 this glossary. It is hoped, however, that the manner in 

 which the facts are collated will render it a comparatively 

 easy task for the teacher to select therefrom plenty of 

 materials for object lessons. 



