Comprehensive catalogue of Queensland plants, both indigenous and naturalisedTo which are added, where known, the aboriginal and other vernacular names; with numerous illustrations, and copious notes on the properties, features, &c., of the plants . ich this article is made, and, as a properand careful testing of the milky sap has not been carried out, weare still in the dark as to the value of our native trees for thismaterial. It is probable that for all time, as at present, there willibe differences of opinion as to the relative value of the words genus, species, variety, and form, and, as
Comprehensive catalogue of Queensland plants, both indigenous and naturalisedTo which are added, where known, the aboriginal and other vernacular names; with numerous illustrations, and copious notes on the properties, features, &c., of the plants . ich this article is made, and, as a properand careful testing of the milky sap has not been carried out, weare still in the dark as to the value of our native trees for thismaterial. It is probable that for all time, as at present, there willibe differences of opinion as to the relative value of the words genus, species, variety, and form, and, as there is nopositive rule to guide one in the matter, each botanist in classifyinghis plants follows what he thinks best. Thus in the present workit may be found that some of the plants are given as forms whichanother botanist would have placed as varieties, and others asvarieties which by some would have been placed as species, and soon. This is of little importance so long as the plants are nothidden, for the main use of classification and nomenclature is tomake it possible to converse and write about plants in a mannereasily understood. To illustrate the matter let us take the well-known plant Hardenbergia monophylla, the Bushmans Sarsapa-. Photo, by Br. T. L. Bancroft*Eucalyptus sideropiiloia, Benth.; forma decorticans, Bail. .Naked-top Ironbark. PREFATORY AND OTHER NOTES. 11 rilla: The normal form in habit differs so much from H. ovata,known as Native Lilac in South Australia, that the two plantscould not be grown in a garden the one as a substitute for theother; yet Bentham in Flora Australiensis places H. ovata onlyas a synonym. Both are met with in Queensland, and the latter isgiven as a variety of the other. Another instance might be men-tioned where two grasses, on account of their beauty, must sooneror later be placed among those recommended for ornamentalplanting or cultivating for use in a dry state for decorativepurposes. These are only mentioned in the Flora Austr
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