TASMANIAN FORESTS: THEIR BOTANY AND ECONOMICAL VALUE. 19 
To acasual observer there seems os be absolutely no difference 
between these forests and those of the Dividing Range in 
Victoria; as, for instance, on the Up er Yarra and along the 
Wood's Point Road, the great bulk of the vegetation is certainly 
the same. Thus the Olearea rosmarin nifolia, Aster stellulatus, 
and ramulosus, Pomaderris a sav and Bedfordia salicina meet 
the eye on every side. The lens sri almost exclude 
every other undergrowth, the To stele w stems of the Poma- 
derris forming almost impenetrable thickets on the Black Spur. 
But the Eucalyptus, though identical in aspect and graceful 
height, is not the same species. E. amygdalina* taking the place 
of LE. globulus, —— is the more singular as they are both 
rie a nied by strin te — A oblique), which rt the 
me lofty habit in both lo e fern tree is different ; at 
le ian Dicksonia is not so common as oie duaitairs the arom 
common plants are the same in both places, such as Olearea 
argophylla, ena stellulata, dow a8 cunningham, 
a om close 
course, will reveal a good anes " differene ees. One will miss 
numerous familiar beauties of the Tasmanian forests, and their 
places will be taken by forms as peculiar and interesting. 
This close resemblance is more remarkable if we bear in mind 
how very distinct and almost complete these Sowehin of Tasmania. 
and Victoria are from those of New South Wales at the east side 
tion is i al aracter; at least as far south as 
Ullad e gigantic nettle (Laportea gigas) and cedar 
sr ge ‘austr alis) take the place of Fagus cunninghami ; 
e the fern trees are few in comparison with the stately 
silat Seaforthia elegans and the ca a (Corypha 
australis) shoot up continually, high above the rush, and vie 
in elevation with the elegant sesh me ( Syncope leptopetala) 
sub-t 
aried and 
adorned with immense fronds of the epiptestie lenis (Apteninm 
see at sigh alcicorne), which here reach their per- 
ee on eet Som hasa poor and worthless character 
tulight sells bot becomes in the a eee 
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