130 ES BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
considerable, as those of the American Exploring Expedition, 
undertaken about the same time and very much in the same 
regions, are said to be; and must, in conjunction with those 
made by the officers of Captain Ross's more recent Antarctic 
Voyage (of which there is some account in the 2nd vol. of this 
Journal, p. 247, etc.) go far towards completing our know- 
ledge of the vegetation in the hitherto little explored countries 
of the southern hemisphere.* 
Kunze, die Farrnkrüuter, Leipzig, 1840, Ato. 
This work is a Supplement to that of the same name by 
Sckhuhr, generally quoted under the title of * Sckhuhr, Fi- 
lices," a work familiar to every student of Ferns, and a very 
admirable publication, considering the period at which it was 
published, and the many difficulties under which its author 
laboured. 'The * Supplement," by the excellent Künze, is 
equally worthy of the present day and of its author, whose 
name ranks high for his labours among this tribe of plants. 
* The amount of plants, collected by the United States' Exploring Expe- 
dition, is stated upon good authority in Silliman's Journal, vol. 44, p. 405, 
to be ten thousand species, and upwards of fifty thousand specimens. The 
following is a list of the number of species collected at the several places 
visited. 
Madeira. oe o 5: 800  FEejeldsande |. ., (199 
Cape de Verds  .. x 60 Coral Islands ši .. 29 
Ded ae - 980 Sandwich Islands .. 883 
Rio Negro (Patagonia) .. 150 Oregon... ed (cc THEME 
Tierra del Fuego |, s 220 — Colbnia.. Gy .-. UD 
Chili icc. Cu ua Mae ooo 7 — o M 
Peru a da es. PA Singapore .. es ++ 89 
Tahiti = 4i ax. MAS Mindanao .. T A a 
Samoa (Navigator's Islands) 457 Sooloo Islands  .. m 
N.S. Wales  —. ss 787 * Mangs Jolande .. = 
New Zealand x ca 398 Cape of Good Hope ., 900 
Auckland Islands s 50 St. Helena 20 
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