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Sound and Dusky Bay. In 1772, during Captain Cook's 

 second voyage, the two Forsters, father and son, aided by 

 Dr. Sparmann, explored Queen Charlotte's Sound and 

 Dusky Bay, and the result of their joint labours was 

 Forster's ' Prodromus,' in which he described 174 species. 



In 1791 Mr. Menzies accompanied Vancouver, and 

 brought to England from Dusky Bay a large number of 

 cryptogamic plants, which were described by Sir William 

 Hooker. 



It was only in the year 1822 that Captain D'Urville, and 

 his naturalist, M. Lesson, continued the labours of these 

 botanists ; and the result of their researches and those of 

 former botanists were embodied in a ' Flora of New Zea- 

 land/ by M. Achille Richard, who described 538 species, 

 of which 380 were phanerogamous, and 158 cryptogamous 

 plants. 



The largest additions to our knowledge of the botany of 

 New Zealand were, however, made by Allan Cunningham 

 in 1826, and Richard Cunningham in 1833 and 1834, 

 and were arranged by Allan Cunningham, and published 

 by Sir William Hooker in his ' Botanical Magazine ' and 

 in ' The Annals of Natural History.' Since the too early 

 death of the two brothers Cunningham, both of whom fell 

 victims to their zeal for the science of botany, Sir William 

 Hooker, that highly distinguished botanist and amiable 

 man, is devoting much of his time to the botany of the 

 islands in the Southern Pacific, and especially to the flora of 

 New Zealand. We may expect to obtain soon from his 

 pen a manual which shall comprise all that is at present 

 known. 



Although in its flora New Zealand has some relationship 

 with the two large continents between which it is situated, 

 America and Australia, and even possesses a number of 

 species identical with those of Europe, without the latter 

 being referable to an introduction by Europeans, yet the 

 greater number of species, and even genera, are peculiar to 

 the country, which astonishing fact had already forced itself 

 upon the minds of the first explorers. New Zealand, with 



