HOTANY OF TERKA AUSTUALIS. Ch) 



Africa and are comparatively rare in Terra Australis are in 

 South America entirely wanting ; and I am acquainted 

 with no tribe of plants common to South Africa and Soutli 

 America and at the same time wanting in Terra Australis, 

 unless the Compositse with bilabiate corolla. 



41ie character of the New^ Zealand Tlora, known to us 

 chiefly from the materials collected by Sir Joseph Banks, is to 

 a considerable degi'ce peculiar ; it has still, however, a certain 

 affinity to those of the two great countries between which 

 it is situated, and approaching rather to that of Terra Aus- 

 tralis, than of South America. 



In comparing together the Floras of Terra Australis and 

 Europe, I shall chiefly confine myself to an enumeration of 

 the species common to both countries ; the subject at pre- 

 sent hardly admitting of many remarks of a more general 

 nature. It may, however, be observed, that none of the 

 great natural orders of Europe are absolutely wanting in 

 Terra Australis ; that some of them, as Compositse, Legu- 

 minosae, Gramincse and Cyperaceae, are found even in 

 nearly the same proportion ; while others, as Cruciferae, 

 Ranunculaceae, Caryophyllese, Rosacese, and Ericeae are 

 reduced to very few species ; and that several of the less 

 extensive European orders, namely, Saxifrageae, Cistincae, 

 Eerberides, Resedaceae, Eumariaceae, Grossularinae, Vale- 

 rianeae, Dipsaceae, Polemonideae, Globulariae, Elaeagneae, 

 and Equisetaceae in Terra Australis do not at all exist. 



The greater number of Australian genera, except the [590 

 Acotyledonous, differ from those of Europe ; there are, 

 however, a few European genera, as Utricularia, Drosera, 

 and Samolus, that appear to have even their maxinuun in 

 Terra Australis. 



From the following list of species, connnon to Terra 

 Australis and Europe, I have carefully excluded all such as, 

 though now existing in the different settlements, have evi- 

 dently, or probably, been introduced, and I am satisfied 

 that no naturalised plant wiU be found in it except, perhaps, 

 Cynodon Baciylon. 



I have also excluded certain plants, as Elafinc lli/dro- 

 piprr, Gpum urhanum, Ocvalis cornicuJafa, Ljjcopu^ euro- 



