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of time. Among the plants to which I allude, the following 

 are remarkable : — Cargillia australis^ Achra< sp., Cryptocarya 

 and Tetranthera, genera of Laurifiece, a Podocarpus, in habit 

 like Taxus elongatus, Marsdenia rostrata, and Tylophora sp.y 

 a singular cork-barked tree, DuboisiaF, a Palm, which I sus- 

 pect is the tropical Seqforthia, and many others, not clearly 

 ascertained." 



Captain King, having determined to survey Macquarie 

 Harbour, on the west coast of Van Diemen's Land, gave 

 Mr Cunningham an opportunity of visiting that portion of 

 Australia. They arrived at Hobart Town on the 2d of 

 January, 1819, and while there, Mr Cunningham ascended 

 Mount Table, since known as Mount Wellington, from 

 whose sides and summit he made a rich increase to his 

 collections. On the lOth they sailed for Macquarie Har- 

 bour, where they remained until the 25th, during which 

 period Mr Cunningham made daily excursions in the imme- 

 diate vicinity of the harbour, and procured a rich collection 

 of its botanical stores. 



They returned to Sydney Cove on the 14th of February. 

 Of the botany of Mount Wellington, Mr Cunningham ob- 

 serves — " I made a very interesting excursion to the summit 

 of Mount Table, which presented me with a fair specimen of 

 Alpine travelling, in the sudden transitions of the weather, 

 (being alternately fair, with snow storms,) and with the char- 

 acter of the botany, as may be found in Terra Australis 

 collectively. In this elevated journey I gathered many curi- 

 ous plants, which, although I now find them described by 

 that truly eminent botanist, Mr Brown, were no less interest- 

 ing to me, who knew nothing of them previously." 



Of Macquarie Harbour, he says — " In no situation did I 

 find the botany so novel and otherwise interesting as on the 

 low shores of a little bight, about nine miles up from the en- 

 -trance, called Pine Cove, from the abundance of the Huoji 

 and Adventwe Bay Pines, which its humid shaded woods af- 

 ford. With the Huon Pine, (which may be a Dacrydium, or 

 altogether a new genus,) and that named Adventure Bay Pine 



