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of Geelong , Port Phillip. 
those growing in dry ; that at great elevations plants are 
more dwarfed in their stature, with fewer leaves, but 
with larger and more brilliant flowers, than those found 
at lesser heights, &c. 
I shall at some future period speak of the dispersion 
of the plants of this colony ; my present object being 
merely with those which have been distributed on both 
sides of Bass’s Strait—a subject interesting to the geolo¬ 
gist as well as the botanist, and which, when the Flora 
of the south coast of New Holland is better known, will 
become of great importance to the student of botanical 
geography. 
Geelong is near the entrance of the harbour of Port 
Phillip, in lat. 38° S., long. 144° 3' E., and the plants 
were collected in its immediate neighbourhood. The land 
is low, very little above the level of the sea, and not far 
removed from it. I may presume the 100 species to be 
collected indiscriminately in their respective natural 
orders, so that it is probable the general deductions may 
prove to be near the truth. 
The following are the results:—Of the 100 there are 
C Of these 51 are indigenous to Tas- 
Dicotyledones, /6 ^ mania, and 25 not found here. 
rOf these 16 are indigenous to 
Monocotyledones, 24< Tasmania, and 8 not found 
here. 
So that out of 100 plants 67 are also found in this 
colony, leaving only 33 to indicate the peculiarities of the 
Geelong vegetation. Of course I cannot tell whether 
some of these 33 may not predominate to such a degree 
as to give it features different from the vegetation here. 
As it may help any future observer who may desire 
to follow out this subject, I subjoin a list of the natural 
families to which the plants belong, and the names of 
sucli genera as I thought worth mentioning. 
