THE 
NEW PHYTOLOGIST. 
Vol. XIII, Nos. 4 & 5. April & May, 1914. 
[Published May 25th, 1914.] 
SKETCHES OF VEGETATION AT HOME AND ABROAD. 
VIII.—NOTES ON THE FLORA AROUND ADELAIDE, 
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
By T. G. B. Osborn, 
Professor of Botany in the University of Adelaide. 
[With Plates I and II and Three Figures in the Text], 
Introduction. 
HE following brief account of the vegetation around Adelaide 
I has been written largely as a preliminary to a more detailed 
ecological study on the district. It is intended merely as a sketch 
rather than a summary of matured considerations on the subject, 
since the writer has at present only spent one year in the district. 
A further inducement to writing has been the fact that Adelaide 
will be the first point of stay on the forthcoming visit of the British 
Association in August, 1914 . 
With the signal exception of Diels’ work * 1 on the flora of West 
Australia, the Australian vegetation has been hitherto almost 
neglected as a field of ecological investigation. The interesting 
flora of the Mount Kosciusko district of Victoria has been dealt 
with by Maiden, 2 but that is the only work on ecology of recent 
years with which I am acquainted. A review of the South 
Australian flora was made by Schombergk, 3 4 but his account would 
be inaccessible to most botanists were it not for a long extract 
from the more important part in Schimper’s Plant Geography, 1 and 
several references by Diels. Such a lack of information may 
serve as an additional justification in publishing this sketch. 
1 Diels, L. “ Die Pflanzenwelt von West-Australien,” 1906. 
2 Maiden, J. H. Agric. Gazette, N.S.W., Vol. 9, 1899, p. 720; Vol. 10, 
p. 1001, 1900. 
3 Schombergk, R. Flora of South Australia in “ South Australia ” (edited 
VV. Harcus), 1876. 
4 Schimper, A. F. W, “ Plant Geography,” 1903, p. 496 and 528 ff. 
