THE 
LONDON JOURNAL OF BOTANY. 
EDITED BY 
SIR W. J. HOOKER, K.H., LLD.: F.R.S. & L.S. 
JouRNAL oF A NaTuRALIST in some little known parts of 
New ZEALAND, by WiLLIAM CoLEnso, Ese., in a Let- 
ter to Sir W. J. Hooker. 
Ever since the publication of the celebrated Voyage of 
Captain Cook a lively interest has been felt in all that con- 
cerns the productions of New Zealand. Of late years that 
interest has been increased tenfold, in consequence of the 
. rapid colonization of the islands by British Emigrants. 
Still, to the Naturalist, it has been very much a sealed 
country. Many of the plants collected during Sir J. Banks? 
and Mr. Menzies’ visits are yet lying in our Herbaria un- 
published; and the * Flore Insularum Nove Zelandie Pre- 
cursor,"* of Mr. Allan Cunningham, edited by ourselves, - 
partly in the * Companion to the Botanical Magazine," and 
partly i in the * Annals of Natural History," enumerates only 
six hundred and forty species (including Cryptogamie), ana 
these chiefly the products of the northern island and of the - 
shores of that island. It has been remarked by Mr. A. Cun- 
ningham, * When we consider how little has been seen of 
the Botany of the northern island, notwithstanding that. Eu- 
ropeans (engrossed truly in mercantile speculations) have 
now been settled several years upon its coasts; that the 
plants of the interior of its more expanded parts from the 
* Companion to the Botanical Magazine, vol. 2, p. 230. 
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