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The plants gathered by Mr. Fitzalan during Lieut. Smith’s expedition to the 
estuary of the Burdekin, and contained also in our collections, have been made the subject 
of a special memoir. The botanical collections gathered by Mr. J. M. Stuart, m his last 
gloriously successful journey to Central Australia and across the continent, were submitted 
for examination by James Chambers, Esq., of Adelaide. The tiustees of the Sydney 
Museum have, on recommendation of His Excellency Sir William Denison, kindly con- 
sented to place at my disposal for examination the botanical treasures gathered by the 
lamented Dr. Leichhardt in his explormg expeditions. Mr. F. Waterhouse is, under the 
auspices of the South AustralianGovemmeut, engaged in carrying out ph j^logical researches 
in Kangaroo Island, more particularly with a view of furnishing additional material for 
a botanical statistic of Austraba from a .spot phytogeographically so mteresting. 
The number of duplicate dried plants distributed from our herbarium for the 
purpose of enriching it by interchange has been 8334, the number received being 8556, 
exclusive of those gathered during professional journeys or obtained through collectors 
temporarily engaged. 
The “Fragmenta Phytographioe Australise,” jaartly elaborated in elucidation of rare 
Australian plants, contained either m our garden or in our nniseum, and partly as the 
precursors of an universal Austrahan Flora, have advanced to fourteen fascicles. In pub- 
lishing this work, I had gratifying opportunities of recording at once any botanical 
discovery of interest, and of acknowledging scientifically the labors of those who have 
aided in the inve.stigation of the native plants. The thirteenth fascicle contains a systematic 
essay of the cxtratropical Eucalypti, completing a pfeliminary monograph of this genus ; 
the tropical species having been the subject of a paper published in the proceedings of the 
Linnean Society. 
Of the more popular work, “ The Plants indigenous to the Colony of Victoria,' the 
greatest part of the first volume is printed, which is at once to be completed when the 
necessary information, to be sought yet in a new alpine journey during February, and hr 
an autumnal excursion to the Genoa River, shall have been obtained. Tire illustrations of 
the Victoria Flora, furnished under my direction by Messrs. Becker and Schoenfeld, have 
been nearly completed for the three first volumes ; thus whenever the main material for 
the letterpress will have fully accumulated, the rapid issue of the work may be expected. 
With a view of extending, previous to the issue of the work on our native plants, 
the botanical investigations over all the principal parts of Victoria, Mr. Dallachy, the 
curator of these gardens, was desired to collect durmg tliis spring the plants peculiar to 
the vicinity of the Lower Wimnrera and Lake Hindmarsh, horses being provided for his 
use throughout the journey by the kindness of Hugh Glass, Esq., of Dunkeld, and Alex. 
Wilson, Esq., of Horsham. Besides a few new plants, several formerly only knorvn from the 
Tatiara country, Encounter Bay or Kangaroo Island, were obtained in his journey, aird by 
his zeal a good addition was made to our herbarium. 
During the month of September I was engaged irr elucidating the vegetation along 
the south-eastern frontiers of the colony, crossing the coimtry from Twofold Bay to the 
Genoa, along which river I travelled to the coast, deviating to Cape Howe and to the 
adjoining freshwater lake, and ascended again the Genoa River to near its sources, 
examining the adjacent elevated country and the Nungatta mountains on my way, where 
I was rewarded with the discovery of a new Warratah (Tclopea oreades), winch luxuriates at 
an elevation of 4000 feet, and where also a very remarkable and beautiful tree, hitherto 
scientifically unknown (Eloeocarpus holopetalus), was added to oxir collection. 
My anticipations of yet pointing out the existence of many New South Wales 
plants within the territory of tliis colony was fully realized, about fifty well marked 
phanerogamous species and many cr}q)togam£B being added by this journey to the material 
for my work. It was further em-iched by copious notes on the distribution of species, and 
in some instances on their probable economical value. 
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