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are confessedly garden plants, (Ex.: Lycopersicum esculen- 
tum, Ruscus androgynus. By thus printing a list of such 
species, I may call the attention of Mr. Hunt and other 
botanists more particularly to them, and so eventually lead 
to their confirmation or rejection in any future Flora of the 
Islands, 
Auca Tasmanicæ : being a Catalogue of the Species of 
ALG collected on the shores of Tasmania by Ronald 
Gunn, Esq. Dr. Jeannerett, Mrs. Smith, Dr. Lyall, 
and Dr. J. D. Hooker; with characters of the new species, 
by J. D. Hooker, M.D., and W. H. HARVEY. 
In the 3rd. vol. of this Journal, p. 430 et seq., Dr. Harvey 
described a considerable number of the species now to be 
enumerated. Since the publication of his paper much time 
has elapsed, and other collections have reached us, which 
afforded several new species, whose characters are here 
Sven. Full descriptions of the whole, with figures of 
.. Several of the more interesting, have further appeared in 
Dr. Harvey's * NeREIS AUSTRALIS,” in the press. 
Ser. I. RHODOSPERMEZÆ, or FLORIDEJE. 
Fam. 1. RuoDoMELEE, J. Ag. 
1. Claudea elegans, Lam.—Harv. I. c. p. 430. 
"AB. George Town, Mr. Gunn. i; e. 
z Dictymenia tridens, Grev.— Harv. l. c. p. 430. Ner. Austr. 
M. i George Town, Mr. Gunn. eee 
% Di ia conferta, Harv.—Fucus confertus, Br.in Tu 
— Hist. t, 184. Delesseria conferta, Ag. Sp. Alg. 1. p. 117. 
"AB. Tasmania, Mr, Gunn. A single specimen. — — 
