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been named Sim's Island, (in honour of the excellent conduc- 

 tor of the Botanical Magazine,) afforded me several fine spe- 

 cimens, and some papers of seeds. I have likewise found 

 some bulbs of Crimim venosum, Br.? which I have not seen 

 in any other part of Australia. The opportunities of land- 

 ing on the north coast, and the islands in the vicinity, have 

 enabled me to add to my collections materially, although not 

 to the extent I had reasonably calculated. The aggJ'egate 

 sum of my collections made on the coasts of Australia, does 

 not exceed 300 species." 



Shortly after the period of Mr Cunningham's return, he 

 undertook a journey to the Illawarra, or Five Island district; 

 a portion of Australia remarkable for the almost tropical 

 character and luxuriance of its vegetation ; and during his 

 stay, (about a month,) he made a very rich collection both ot 

 specimens and seeds. For the results I again refer to his 

 journal. 



" I returned from a late excursion to the country souther- 

 ly, with a collection of interesting plants and some seeds 

 found during my stay there, in the diversified country in 

 that vicinity, particularly under the mountain-belt bounding 

 the fine cattle-runs to the westward, whose shaded damp 

 woods afforded me a considerable scope for botanical investi- 

 gation, although I was in several instances, too early in the 

 season for expanded flowering specimens. I was nevertheless 

 fortunate in the detection of many fine plants, either in fruit 

 or in a partially flowering condition, that I have never 

 examined before. They are, however, for the most part, 

 plants known to that eminent botanist, Mr Brown, a circum- 

 stance that tempts me to conclude the vegetable productions 

 of those shaded close forests, full of volubilous and scandent 

 species, to be of the same description as those of the Cedar 

 woods of the Coal River, (Hunter's River,) whence that 

 gentleman, in 1801, could have alone obtained those plants 

 he has described, and which I have again detected two de- 

 grees to the southward of it, viz., at the Red Point of the 

 charts, a district wholly unknown to any botanist at that period 



