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Bailey, F. M. A Synopsis of er bec Flora, containing both 
Phenogamous and Cryptogamou ts. Brisbane, 1883.  8vo. 
Supplement 1, 1886; 2, 1888. 
Bailey, F.M. The Flora of Queensland : : Sketch. London, 1886 
(Colonial and Indian Exhibition). 8vo. pp.1 
SovrH AvsTRALIA.— This Colony stretches " across the continent «s 
Australia, between 129? to 138? E. long. in the northern part, and 129^ t 
eR in the southern part of its area, ihe whole of which is coated at 
000 square miles; and it is nearly 1,900 miles from north to south. 
But most of the works relating to the botany, &c. (including Bentham's 
“Flora Australiensis’ A only with the original area from the 26th 
parallel of S. lat. southw 
Schomburgk, R. The pem of ge Australia. Ty the Hand- 
book of South ‘eae Adelaide, 1875. 8vo. pp. 64. 
Tepper, 0. gretai &xd Distribution of the Native 
and Naturalized Plasts about Ardrossan, Yorke's Peninsula. Adelaide, 
1880. 8vo 
Tate Ral h. A Census of the Indigenous Flowering Plants and 
Ferns of extratropical South Australia: ‘Transactions of the | Philosophical 
Society of Adelaide, 1880. Reprint, 8vo. pp. 45 
Brown, J. E. Forest Flora of South Australia. Adelaide, 1882-9. 
Large folio, miele Statens not yet completed. 
Kanearoo Isranp.—Situated at the entrance to St. Vincent Gulf, 
South Australia. About 90 miles in length, runni ng east and west, 
and 25 miles in its greatest breadth, with an area of 1 ,500 square miles, 
The surface is undulating, but the elevation nowhere exceeds 1,000 feet. 
Tate, R. The B of Kangaroo Island: Transactions of the 
Royal Society of South Australia, 1883. Reprint, small 8vo. pp. 56, 
with ma 
Tate enumerates 414 species of vascular plants belonging to 230 genera 
and 69 natural orders. The number of peculiar r species is small, and 
many ibd Australian and Tasmanian plants here find their eastern and 
ts respectively. 
crm — The smallest of the Australian Colonies, yet nearly 
equalling Great Britain in area. Its greatest length is about 490 miles, 
and its greatest breadth 300 miles, and it abuts on New So ud Wales to 
the north and South Australia to the west, The “ yo are the highest 
mountains in Australia, reaching very nearly 6,500 feet 
Mueller, F. The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria. 
Lithograms. Melbourne, 1864-65. 4 71 and 18 supplement 
plates. The descriptive letterpress of this ‘work has only been published 
as far as the end of the Thalamiflorz. 
The tallest Gum-trees, and the tallest trees in the world, are found in 
some of the gullies of Victoria. Several trees have VIE dones that 
were more than 400 feet high, and the highest was 471 f 
WESTERN AusrRALIA.— This includes the vm ot y fu 
westward of the 129th taeda of E. lon area of 
. 1,060,000 square miles, though only a comparatively ‘iat Vórtieff of it 
is settled, and immense ee have ees been explored. In Bentham's 
