NOTES ON ACACIA. 



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many of those tropical species which have hitherto been recorded as 

 from Northern Australia"- (The italics are mine. — J.H.M.) 



The list was reprinted unaltered in 1903, and not sub- 

 sequently differentiated, as the late Dr. Morrison hoped. 

 In other words, there is no list of North Western Austra- 

 lian plants published. 



Following is a tentative bibliography, arranged in order 

 of date, of the plants of the Nor- West, which will assist in 

 the publication of such a list. 



1. Dampier, William. He visited Cygnet Bay on the 

 North-west Coast in 1688. He made a second voyage to 

 the west and north-west coast in H.M.S. "Roebuck'' in 

 1699. For some notes on Dampier see my "Records of 

 Western Australian botanists," (Proc. W.A.Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 1909). 



Dampier brought a number of plants back to England, 

 which are the oldest Australian plants known. About a 

 dozen are still in the herbarium of the University of Oxford 

 and figures (and notes) of them by Dr. W. Botting Hems- 

 ley, f.r.s., will be found in the "Western Mail," Perth, 

 W.A., Christmas Number, 1898. There is no Acacia 

 amongst them. 



2. Baudin's Expedition, 1800-4 1 went from Van Diemen's 

 Gulf to Cape Leveque. As a rule, the ships kept far from 

 land, and hence few plants were collected. The natural 

 history results were chiefly zoological; Leschenault de la 

 Tour was botanist. Bentham records that the Expedition 

 collected (l) 2 A, bivenosa DC, which appears to be the 

 first Nor-West Acacia collected of which we have any 

 record. 



1 See my paper on the «* Earlier French Botanists as regards Australian 

 Plants." This Journ. xliv, p. 132. 



2 The first of the serial numbers of the Acacias enumerated in this 

 paper. 



