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who has kindly undertaken to name them; and it is Mr. 
Gardner’s intention, we believe, to prepare a fasciculus of 
them, somewhat similar to his Musci Britannici. 
There are still in hand a few sets of Mr. Gardner's Brazil- 
ian Plants, not only of the present collection, but of nearly 
all his others, which are open for purchase at the rate of two 
pounds per 100 species. The Editor of this Journal will 
transmit to Mr. Gardner any application for them. 
New ZEALAND. 
Any information relative to the productions of an island 
which is likely to be so valuable an appendage of the British 
crown as New Zealand, and which emigration is continually 
connecting more and more closely with our own population, 
cannot fail to prove acceptable to our readers. We there- 
fore take the opportunity of laying before them some extracts 
from a letter just received from Wm. Colenso, Esq., a gentle- 
man who conducts the printing establishment attached to the 
Church Missionary settlement in the Northern Island. Mr. 
Colenso has made many excursions in New Zealand, and 
often accompanied the late lamented Allan Cunningham in 
his scientific expeditions. 
Upwards of a year ago, Mr. Colenso sent a collection of 
plants, gathered by him while botanizing with Mr. A. Cun- 
ningham, many of which are published in the Ninth Part 
(which has recently appeared) of Hooker's Icones Plantarum. 
The plants referred to in the following extracts form a portion 
of another set, which has already arrived, and is in beautiful 
condition. 
** Paihia, Bay of Islands, July 20th. 1841. 
“ Since I had last the pleasure of addressing you, I have 
made a journey of about four weeks to Wangarei Bay and 
neighbourhood, in south lat. 36°, returning by a circuitous 
route, vid the interior. My primary object, as it must ever 
necessarily be, was to visit the natives residing in those parts; 
but I always seize every opportunity of enlarging my ac- 
quaintance with the Botany of this interesting island, and 
