FOREST VEGETATION. 29 
phyritic regions, and are seldom found on any other; while the 
white gum (specimen 5), #. Stuartiana? Daviesia, the wild hop, 
limited district will probably not afford sufficient information on 
pares to determine what that law is, ap I venture to think that 
co ison between its effects in a few districts where, the 
ional s being known, their effe on may be considered in conjune- 
tion, will so far illustrate its general princi “ as to render an 
acquaintance with them of great practical u 
any of the effects of this law diffes ‘to 80 great an 
recognized significance in pastoral and agricultural matters. 
Such phrases as “ Box Forest,” “ Iron-bark Ranges,” “Apple-tree 
Flats,” “Stringy-bark Ri dges,” “Myall Plains,” &c¢., haye all 
had their own respective associations in the minds of those 
tions resulting from those observations were thus early arrived 
at because, involving as they did a large amount of pecuniary 
interest, the observers were much more numerous than they 
otherwise would have been ; and while those results which imme- 
— affect individual 1 prosperity are well known, all the 
appear to point to the same geologi 
te over the other’ forest vegetation as contro] the few 
examples named, which, although i te certain local varia- 
eit arising from climatic or other considerations, are regu! 
when the value of those causes of variation is eunadened and 
allowed 
or. 
