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MR. LAWRENCE’S EXCURSION. 235 
NOTES ON AN EXCURSION UP THE WESTERN 
MOUNTAINS OF VAN DIEMAN’S LAND. By. R. 
W. Lawrence, Esq. or Formosa. 
(Tue following notes of an excursion from Formosa, on 
Lake River, in Van Dieman’s land, the residence of Mr. 
Lawrence, to the summit of the Western mountains, were 
kindly communicated to me by that gentleman, accompanied 
by an excellent collection of specimens of plants made during 
that journey, as well as in other parts of the Island, About 
the same time a valuable collection was also sent to me by 
Ronald Gunn, Esq. of Launceston, chiefly gathered in the 
neighbourhood of that town. A list of these, together with 
what I have received at other times from the same zealous 
botanist, and a few from Dr. Scott, will be described in the 
pages of this work ; and one portion of them will follow imme 
diately upon this Journal. As I have reason to believe that 
these gentlemen have distributed specimens to other botanists 
with similar numbers which accompanied mine, I havethought 
it better to give these numbers for their more convenient- 
ly determining the species. I may observe, that of Mr. 
Lawrence's numbers, 250, and the following numbers, are 
from the Western mountains; while of Mr. Gunn's collec- 
tion, 259, 267 to 271, 273 to 286, 288 to 292, 295, 299, 
300, 303 to 309, 312 to 322, 326, 337, 366 to 371, 411, and 
443, are from the same range of mountains, but at a distance 
of forty miles from the part explored by Mr. Lawrence, and 
Where the height is estimated at 4000 feet. These are the 
* Western mountains,” running east and west, and said to be 
covered with snow for half the year, which lie S. W. from 
Launceston, in ** Cross’ Chart of Van Dieman's Land, 1829, 
and situated between lat. 41? 42° S. and long. 146? 147°,” 
and they must not be confounded with another chain of 
Mountains of this same map, in the south western part of the 
