117 WEDNESDAY, MAECH 25th, 1879. The Eev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, F.G-.S., etc , President, in the Chair. DONATIONS. The Illustrated Monograph of the Grasses of Queensland, from the Board of Inquiry into the Causes of Disease in Live Stock and Plants, Brisbane. Vol. I., Part 3, of the Australian Medical Journal, — from the Medical Society of Victoria. papers read. On the Eelations of the Brisbane Flora. By the Eev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, F.G.S., F.L.S., &c, &c. Now that the great work of cataloguing our Australian Flora has been concluded, and that the Flora Australiensis of Bentham and Mueller is a standard of reference to which recourse can easily be had, the preparation of local floras will be the first care of Australian botanists. Until this is done, the real character of Australian vegetation will hardly be manifest. At present our knowledge does not go much further than an enumeration of species. Their geographical distribution has hardly been touched upon. Information as to the habitat where each specimen has been found is of course given in the " Flora," but the range of the species is not attempted. It could not be, indeed, without rendering the work inconveniently bulky, and as yet the information at the disposal of Mr. Bentham for the purpose is necessarily very small. Nor can this deficiency be remedied until a very large number of local floras have been published, and for this I suppose we shall have to wait many
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