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number of plants, and made drawings of others, which were 

 published by Sir James Smith in his "Specimen of the Botany 

 of New Holland," in " White's Journal of a Voyage to New 

 South Wales," and in other works. In the " Specimen " some of 

 these plants, including the Waratah, there called " Embothrium," 

 were very creditably figured and colored. 



In 1791, Captain Vancouver's expedition was accompanied by 

 Mr. Archibald Menzies as botanist, who formed a good collection 

 of the singular and extremely beautiful flora of King George's 

 Sound. 



In the same year the French expedition, under Captain 

 D'Entrecasteaux, in the "Recherche" and " Esperance" in search 

 of La Perouse, visited South Western Australia and Tasmania, 

 where considerable collections were made by Monsieur J. J. 

 Labillardiere, who published figures and descriptions of 265 of 

 the most interesting in his "Novas Hollandise Plantarum 

 Specimen," and described and figured others in his narrative of 

 the voyage, which was accompanied by folio plates of several of 

 the plants : the genus Billardiera was named after him. 



About 1794, Colonel Paterson, who was in command of the 

 New South Wales Corps, zealously devoted himself to investi- 

 gating the botany of the colony and the northern part of Tas- 

 mania, of which he was Lieutenant-Governor from 1804 to 1810. 

 It was after him that the beautiful evanescent Patersonia was 

 named. 



About 1800, Mr. George Cay ley was sent by Banks, still thirst- 

 ing for Australian botanical knowledge, to New South Wales, 

 where he resided, botanized and made extensive collections, 

 which went to the British Museum. His name was given to the 

 terrestrial orchid " Caleyana." 



Captain Flinders, who was the first circumnavigator of the 

 entire island (to which he appears to have been the first to apply 

 the name of " Australia"), conducted an expedition in 1801 and 

 two succeeding years in H.M.S. "Investigator," in which he 

 visited every bay, promontory and important feature of the 



