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though only one twenty-fifth^ of the whole number observed, 

 appears to be greater than that in the Tlora of South Africa. 

 And the vegetation of the Cape of Good Hope, not only in 

 the number of species peculiar to it, but in its general cha- 

 racter, as depending on the extensive genera or faniihcs of 

 which it is composed, differs almost as widely from that of 

 the northern parts of the same continent, and the south 

 of Europe, as that of the corresponding latitude of Terra 

 Australis does from the Flora of India and of Northern 

 Asia. 



Of the proportion of European species in the Flora of 

 South America, which is probably still smaller than that 

 of South Africa, we have very insufficient means of judg- 

 ing ; w^e know, however, from the collections made by Sir 

 Joseph Banks that, at the southern extremity of America, 

 certain European plants, as Fhleum alpinum, Alopecurus 

 aljjinus, and Bofri/chhcDi Lunaria exist ; and that there is 

 even a considerable resemblance in the general character of 

 the Elora of Terra del Fuego to that of the opposite ex- 

 tremity of America and of the North of Europe. 



1 In the original text the proportion is stated as " one-tentli ;" but this 

 obvious mistake was corrected as above, by Mr. Brown — himself in the Banksian 

 copy of ' Flinders's Voyage.' Edit. 



