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APPENDIX. 
[B. 
Proteaceae. The genus Loranthus, of which nearly the 
whole of its described species have been limited to the 
tropics, is, however, sparingly scattered on all the Coasts 
of Austi’alia, where about eleven species have been re- 
cently observed, parasitical chiefly upon certain trees that 
constitute the mass of the forests of that vast continent ; 
viz., Eucalyptus, Casuarina, Acacia, and Melaleuca. 
A solitary and very remarkable deviation from the usual 
natural economy of Loranthus, is observed in a species (1. 
floribunda) described and figured by M. Labillardiere, which 
is found on the shores of King George’s Sound, where, in no 
way recognising the dependent habits of its congeners, it 
rises from the soil to a tree fifteen feet high, being never re- 
marked relying upon other vegetables for its subsistence. 
ATscum is found in the colony of Port Jackson, to which 
it is not confined, having been also gathered at Endeavour 
River, on the same coast, within the tropic. The southern 
range of the two genera seems to be nearly beyond the 
fortieth degree of latitude ; but in the northern hemisphere, 
Loranthus exists in Siberia. 
Umbellifera:. — The equinoctial portion of the Herba- 
rium contains only three or four plants of this extensive 
European order, belonging to Hydrocotyle, Azorella of Ca- 
vanilles and Labillardiere, (from which Trachymene of 
Rudge is probably not distinct,) and a sufFruticose plant 
referred to Cussonia, that have been collected upon the 
East Coast. Upon the north-western shores, Azorella was 
alone remarked, of which a species is very general upon its 
main and islands, and chiefly remarkable for its gigantic 
herbaceous growth, 
MYRTACEiE. — With respect to that portion of Myrtacem, 
