Census of the Genera of Plants hitherto known as 
ndigenous to Australia. 
By Baron Ferp. von Muetier, K.C.M.G., M.D., Ph.D., ERS 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S.W., 2 November, 1881.] 
Tue reasons for offering this generic list of Australian plants have 
been three-fold. In first instance it was to fill up a deficiency in 
publications, in which the genera and indeed also the natural 
orders, represented in the native vegetation of this part of the 
globe, were first established. Secondly,—this list was to carry on 
. 
literary originators of any ordinal or generic group of plants, 
insight into known forms, goes on even at the present day), 
the original formula of the order or genus may have become much 
changed. assigning generic limits e been conservative, 
because practical experience in systematising through four de 
has led me to perceive, how much e is 
