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(6) Table-lands and mountains (say 1,000 to 3,000 feet) will roughly include the Blue Mountains, 
and such districts as New England and the Southern Tableland. Many English trees flourish in this 
area. 
(7) “ Alpine situations ” is taken to indicate the coldest situations in the State, and includes not 
merely such m mntains as Kosciusko, but anything between 3,000 or 4,000 and 6,000 feet. 
(8) “ Open forest (grass land) ” is employed in a general sense. 
In open forests Eucalypts form the prevailing vegetation in the coast districts and also on the 
western slopes, and frequently attain a great size. As compared with brush forests, the soil is less rich 
and moist. Of the open forest timbers we may say that we possess a fair knowledge; it is mainly in 
regard to the brush timbers that our knowledge is defective. 
(9) “Western slopes.”—-These connect the table-land with the western plains. 
Following are two contributions of general remarks to the subject—the first 
European, the second Australian :— 
This form of natural selection finds illustrations everywhere, though one cannot always say why 
any particular species of plant is abundant in one place and not in another. As an example, the following 
notes have been supplied to me by Rev. Wentwortli Webster from the south of France. He writes :— 
“ I cannot at all make out the differentia of soil and position which determine the very restricted and 
sporadic, so to say, habitat of the Daphne round Biarritz, and in the Bidasoa Valley; nor why the 
Anemone fulgens grows in some spots and not in others. I believe that I know the general conditions in 
which one may expect to find it, and where it is found if anywhere ; but I cannot explain its absence 
when all the requisite conditions appear continually; but this Anemone is sporadic only. The Gromwell 
clings along the coast, and I know almost to a yard where it ends on the red sandstone at an elevation of 
some 400 metres in this direction ; but soil and geological formation within those limits of its habitat 
seem to have no effect on it. The Narcissi are still more baffling ; nor can I see that either size or colour 
depend on elevation. The Hepatica stops at the limit of the tidal wave, and is almost, as far as I can see, 
confined to calcareous formations. (* Origin of Plant Structures , Henslow, p. 12.) 
I do not know whether you are aware of it or not, but in this State (Queensland), people on the 
land, in describing country, usually describe by means of the timber in order to define its value ; and on 
the 2-mile map of the country, published by the Government, reference is made to the timber on it mostly, 
which I believe is for the purpose of giving an idea of the soil value, or the value of the grasses, or the 
possible presence of any poisonous plants. If I remember rightly, early Victorian geologists took up the 
matter, and referred to the prevalence of certain trees in the vicinity of some of the gold fields compared 
with the comparative scarcity for a short distance away, and under general conditions that were the same.— 
(Captain G. H. Richard, General Manager of Mount Morgan, in a letter.) 
The following papers are listed in chronological order:— 
1. “ Effects of geological position on Conifers,” by Earl Eucie, a paper 
contributed to the Trans, of the Scottish Arhoricultural Society, and reproduced 
(? in abstract) in “The Garden,” of 4tli July, 1874. I have not been able to 
consult the original. 
2. “The Forest Vegetation of Central and Northern New England, in 
connection with Geological Influences,” by W. Christie, L.S., Proc. Roy. Soc. 
N.S.W., xi, 21 (1876). 
The most valuable of the early papers known to me and copiously illustrated 
by specimens. Unfortunately, however, the botanical knowledge of the local 
* For further discussions on this subject, the reader may be referred to Influence chimique du Sol sur la Vigilation 
ties sommets ties Alpes, par M. J. Vallot; Hull, de la Soc. But. de Fr., 3.3, 1886, p. 25. Quelqucs observations snr les 
Relations nitre la Distribution des Phantrogames et la Nature, chimique du tot, par. M. G. Bonnier ; Bull, de la Soc. Bot. de 
Fr., 1879, 26, p. .338. And Quelques mots mr les Causes de la Localisation des FspCces d'une Region, par M. Battandier ; 
Bull, tie la Soc. Bot. de Fr., 1886, 33, p. 139. 
