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Drummond, J. egetation of West Australia. Hooker’s Vourtal: ~ 
Botany, ii. COM pos 343-372; iv. (1842), pp. 
London Journal of Botany, i. (1842), pp. 86-97, 215-217, 397-398, 
626-635 ; ii. (1843), p». 167-183; iii. (1844), pp. 263-266, 300-314. 
Hookers Kew Journal of Botany, i. (1849), pp. 247-251, 374-377 ; 
ii. (1850), pp. 30-32; iv. (1852), pp. 181—189; v. (1853), pp. 115-122, 
189—145, 157-183, 312-315, 944—347, 398 -406. 
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Forest’s Geographi cal Exploration of North-west Australia 
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1879. 4to. pp. 30, tt. 20. 
Mueller, F. The Plants ee around Sharks Bay and its 
vicinity. Perth, 1883. Folio. 
The Flora of Western Australia is one of the most higbly specialized 
in the world. if not the most highly specialized, for out of 3,136 species 
Flowering Plant qo ied. recorded in 1886, 2,680 are endemic. Many 
of the species are extremely rare and local, and will doubtless disappear 
altogether as aber tig exten de. 
Tasmania. Situated to the South of Australia (from which it is 
divided by Bass's Straits, 120 miles wide), between about 39? 40' and 
43° 40' S. lat., and 143° 45' to 148° 20’ W. long., with an estimated area 
of 26,172 square miles. This includes the adjacent islands, fifty-five in 
num ber, which are mostly in Bass’s Straits. The largest are King, 
Flinders, and Cape Barren Islands. "Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land, 
itself is undulated and well watered, many of the mountain pea 
reaching an altitude of between 4 000° and 5,000 feet, and two or three 
slightly exceed 5,000 
Tasmania is included in Bentham’ s * Flora Australiensis.”  . 
Hooker, J. D. Flora Tasmaniw. London, 1855-60. "Two vols. 
quarto, with 200 solaid plates 
Whiting, G. gi and ftésouroos of Tasmania—Vegetable Pio- 
ducts, by W. Archer. Hobart, 1862. 8vo. 
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, in several volum 
a W. W. Handbook ti the Plants of Tasmania. icis 1878. 
pm eller, F. Census of the Plants of Tasmania: Proceedings of 
the Royal "Society of "Tocinssis 1879, Appendix, pp. 32. 
Mueller, F. Vegetation of King Island: Proceedings of the Royal 
Society of rami 1881, pp. 46-48. 
Mueller, F. moato of the plants of Deal Island, Kent’s 
group: Pr niis of the Royal Sperti of Tasmania, 1884, pp. 282-3. 
The Flora of Tasmania is quite Australian in c aracter, including 
the characteristic ag -trees. Mueller records 945 species of Flowering 
Plants, belonging to 363 genera and Ses natural orders. In the very 
different Flora of Ne ew Zealand ae mbers are nearly the same, except 
of genera, of which there are only 306. 
New ZEALAND.—Extends through about thirteen degrees of pex pes 
from 34° to 47° 15' S., and from 166? 30' to 178° 30' E. long., a 
total area is about 10, 400 square ld The mountains in the en 
island, especially on the western side, reach great altitudes, Mount Cook 
exceeding 12,000 feet. 
