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BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



According to the annexed enumeration, tte proportion of the Dicotyle- 

 donecB to the MonocotyledonecB will be found, for that part of the country 

 over which my investigations this year extended, to be nearly as seven to 

 two, and it corresponds, therefore, exactly with the position which these 

 great divisions of the Vegetable Kingdom bear to each other in South 

 Australia up to the thirty-fourth degree south latitude (as shown in my 

 observations on the South Australian Flora, lately read before the 

 Linnean Society of London), and holds, likewise, the mean between 

 the proportions ascertained by Eobert Brown for Yan Diemen's Land 

 and New South Wales ; while in Western Australia, as well as in South 

 Australia, including the country there to the thirty-first degree south 

 latitude, the number of the Dkotyledonem exceeds in the proportion of 

 nine to two that of the MonocoiyUdonece . 



The Cryptogamic plants, however, favoured by a more humid atmo- 



numerous 



Colonies, being about equal to a third of the Dicotyledo7ie(B, 



Excluding all Cryptogamic plants, not fewer than 200 species, as 

 testified by the Index, are proved to be as yet undescribed. Some of 

 these occurred to me in South Australia; and the descriptions of 

 several others, will probably find a place in Dr. J. Hooker's forthcoming 

 ' Flora of Van Diemen's Land/ These novelties enabled me already 

 to establish seven new genera {Pseudomorus, Baslleophyta, PJ^soleuca^ 

 TetracJtceta, Minur ant Juts ^ Psoraleopsis^ and Rhytidospormri). 



The descriptions, not only of almost all the new plants, but also critical 

 notes and observations on the phyto-geographical range of the species 

 already known, will be forwarded to Sir AVilliam Hooker before my de- 

 parture for the interior, and will afterwards constitute, together with 

 the scientific elucidations of such plants as may be added during the 

 ensuing season from the yet botanically unexplored districts, the foun- 

 dation of ' The Flora of Victoria/ , 



{To he contimied.) 



Death of Professor Eeintcardt, 



We regret to have to announce the recent decease of Dr, C. Gr. C. 

 "Reinwardt, Professor of Natural History in the University of Leyden, 

 distinguished as a Botanist by his researches in Java, and various pub- 

 lications. 



