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When the letters “ k,” “ f,” “s,” are used in column 3 
it indicates that the plant has been found within 30 miles 
of Melbourne—in the grassland of the Keilor or basalt 
plains, (“It”); in the forest country of the Silurian forma¬ 
tion, (“f”); or in the dwarf scrub of the Sandringham 
red sandy area, (“s”). See map of Melbourne District. 
Owing to errors in determination, corrected subsequently 
to the record, and to the separation of two or more species 
hitherto included under the same name— e.gLepidiuni 
dubium and L. fasciculatum under L. ruder ale —records of 
geographical distribution must necessarily be in error to 
some extent regarding such species. 
An asterisk prefixed to the name denotes that the record 
for that plant is doubtful. It is known that Mueller, 
Wilhelmi, Dallacliy, and others collected on the lower 
Murray in S.A. and along the Murray and Darling in 
N.S.W., and that Mueller, Bauerlen, and others collected 
along the Snowy and Genoa Rivers, which flow for the 
most part of their course in N.S.W., so that the localities 
“ Murray,” “ Snowy,” " Upper Hume,” “ Genoa,” 
“ Murray and Darling,” arc not authentic Victorian records. 
These species, however, have been allowed to remain on 
the Census, and botanical workers are asked to endeavour 
to establish these records by sending specimens of these 
plants gathered in Victoria to the National Herbarium. 
All new records as to regional distribution, and all 
alterations and additions consequent upon the revision of 
groups of plants, and the setting up of new species, will be 
published from time to time in the Victorian Naturalist, -the 
journal of the Field Naturalists* Club of Victoria. 
The systematic arrangement of the families is mainly 
on the lines of that adopted by Engler and Gilg in the 
“ Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien,” and followed by Maiden 
and Betche in their “ Census of New South Wales Plants,” 
1916, J. M. Black in his “ Flora of South Australia,” 1922, 
and by other authors of recent floras. This arrangement 
allows of the grouping of plants according to their affinities, 
beginning with the lowest forms (Vascular Cryptogams) 
and ending with the highest (Compositae). 
The arrangement adopted by Baron von Mueller and 
used in his “ Key to the Plants of Victoria ” is given for 
comparison. 
