The South Australian Naturalist. 
129 
for Avhicli this coimnoii naiuo would be more appropriate in 
8, A., not being recorded foi' Victoria. A few species, di.stiii- 
guisiied as “Common,” ai'e so in Victoria, but not in all 
cases in South Australia. 
i^’rom the dim past, when folk-lore first took note of tne 
Deautiful blossoms of the forest, the marsh, and the field, the 
long line of writers of English verse and English story have 
woven a spell round the names of the British flowers, a spell 
which binds the hearts of the far-flung Australian as it does the 
Briton the world over; the “wee daisy,” the “blushing rose,” 
the “nodding blue-bell,” the stately “foxglove,” each and all 
carry a thrill of associated ideas. Through centuries they have 
been used as most effective similes for poetic images. “Tetra- 
theea” may leave us quite unmoved, but round the nodding 
purple masses of “Heath pink-eye” some magic pen may yet 
weave a shimmering iiazo of romance and imagination that will 
endue it with a power to touch the heart and thrill the imagina- 
tion as the wee daisy” does now. Imagine the difficulty of 
the Australian bard who sang : 
“Paludosa microphylla with thy 
White neck cannot vie, 
And the modest Wahlenbergia 
Is not bluer than thine eye ’ ’ 
re ic poetry and story 
place tffrthelLhf literature to light up the common- 
place witn the light that never was on land or sea. 
Armed with this book, the Nature-lover may make a begin 
nnig in building up an enveloping glamour of^story and sLg 
such as )iow, even to us, separated by the width nf th i f 
surrounds the flowers of tlie hoznelands 
particularly one dealing with “Alien 
Plants Recorded as Naturalized in Victoria ” arc • 
be obtaine., fr.„ „ Cole 'a Bo„b jS e, Tf Cfie sS 
THE TEPPER COLLECTION. 
(Mr.^George Quhmi’tr"" tnstructor in Horticulture 
Collection fiQ ^*^‘0 specimens contained in the Tenner 
tbe memberLdhe itSe “T 
will be iuvolvpd great amount of work 
the great numbL of classifying, and indexing 
Mr. BlS CaRea^v bequeathed to the section 
ranthus and Phyllanthus Pseudanthus mic- 
being no snecimpn nt yu the Tepper Collection, there 
g no specimen oi either m the Tate Herbarium. 
