posted on 2023-11-22, 07:59authored byWilliam Webb Spicer
The catalogue accompanying this paper includes all those members of the Tasmanian Flora which come under Hewett C. Watson's designation of Aliens. This is a happily conceived title, first instituted by that veteran botanist; and it was intended by him to embrace such species as have been introduced either by accident or design, and which have maintained their ground more or less firmly in their adopted country. I also include a few plants which, in Mr. Watson's more extended vocabulary, would probably be named by him waifs, strays, and casuals; but the number of these is so small that I have thought it better to bring them all under the general designation of Aliens.
History
Publication title
Papers & Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of Tasmania
Pagination
62-74
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In 1843 the Horticultural and Botanical Society of Van Diemen's Land was founded and became the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land for Horticulture, Botany, and the Advancement of Science in 1844. In 1855 its name changed to Royal Society of Tasmania for Horticulture, Botany, and the Advancement of Science. In 1911 the name was shortened to Royal Society of Tasmania..