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this is uncertain. I do not expect to reach Hobarton before Christmas, 

 and that will, I suppose, be a good season for Port Davy, — fully late, I 

 fear, except for the mountains. If it be not too expensive, I mean to 

 visit that quarter for Joseph's sake as well as my own, and shall try 

 and get Mr. Gunn to come with me. I find it nearly impossible to 

 attend to both land and sea plants; the latter take so much time in 

 washing, laying out, and changing, that my whole time is literally occu- 

 pied, except at meals; and one day's walk sometimes takes me three days 

 to put on paper, before I can take another walk. This is because I have 

 to dry such a number of specimens of each kind for my seventy sub- 

 scribers. If, therefore, Gunn do not come with me, either land or sea 

 will be neglected. 



If the Alg(E part of the ' Flora Novse Zelandise ' be yet published, I 

 wish Joseph would send it to me, if possible, through the Colonial 

 OflSce despatch-bag, to either the Governor of Melbourne (to prefer), or 

 New South Wales. Melbourne will be my head-quarters, from which 

 I shall branch to Van Diemen's Land, and return there before going 

 to Sydney : I go to Sydney to get passage for New Zealand, if I go 

 there. At Melbourne there is a Peninsular and Oriental hulk moored, 

 on which I can leave all the extra baggage I do not require, which is 

 my reason for making it head-quarters.— I do not stop at Adelaide at 

 all, from having over-stayed my time here, and because I have not 

 heard very good reports of it. 



W. H. Hakvey. 



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Epipogium Gmelini, Eich., a British Plant 



We 



cent specimens) that the very curious aphyllous Orchidaceous platit, 

 Epipogium Gmelini of L. C. Eichard (E. aphyllum, ReichenbacJi ; Li- 

 modorum Epipogium, 8w.; Satyrium Epipogium, Linn:), has been 

 added to the number of our British native plants. The discovery was 

 communicated to me on the 9th of this month (September), by the llev. 



W.Anderton Smith of Tf^HtlfnflP fmm tTiA"Rn^triv^r Tlolnmoro "Ri-nrnva-prl • 



know 



Anderton Smith found a specimen of the Epipogium Gmelini^ the first, 

 I am told, that has been found in England. For some time we looked 

 in vain for other specimens ; but, on the 23rd ult., I was fortunate in 



