1788. — Directly after the establishment of the first settle- 

 ment at Port Jackson, John White, the Surgeon-General of the 

 N.S. Wales Settlement, collected plant specimens about Botany 

 Bay. These were sent for cleternaination to Mr. Wilson, A. B. 

 Lambert and J. E. Smith, 



I find no plant bearing Mr. White's name. 



1791. — Archibald Menzies, who accompanied Capt. Van- 

 couver's Expedition, made a large collection of plant specimens 

 At King George's Sound. 



A genus of Ericacete, Men^iesia, bears the name of this 

 botanist — no species of which are found in Australia. His name 

 is, however, attached to several species of Australian plants, one 

 of which is Jianksin Menzu'sii, R. Br. 



1792. — J. J. Labillardiere, of the French Expedition under 

 General D'Entrecasteaux, visited Tasmania and the south- 

 western parts of Australia, where he made large botanic 

 collections, which furnished much of the material for his 

 work, " The Novse Hollandife Plantarum," in wdiicli many were 

 figured. 



The geuus Billardu'id, Sm., of Pittosporeas, is in honor of 

 this botanist. 



1794 to 1810. — Col William Paterson, collected many of 

 ihe native plants of N.S. Wales and Tasmania, and during the 

 flame years George Caley collected herbarium specimens for Sir 

 Joseph Banks. 



Patersonift, R. Br., a beautiful genus of Iridete, bears the 

 name of the first, and the curious Orchideous genus, Caleana, 

 R. Br., noted for the irritable lid-like labellum, records the 

 labours of the latter. 



1800. — M. Leschenault de la jTour, the botanist of Capt. 

 Baudin's Expedition, collected plants on the north-west and 

 west coast, in Tasmania and N.S. Wales. Many of these seem 

 to have been published by the French botanist, R. F. Des- 

 fontaines 



This early collector's name is given by Robt. Brown to a 

 genus of Goodenoviese Leaihenaultia, and that of the latter 

 to a section of the same genus, Latouria. 



