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a native of Europe, and can scarcely be said even to be natural- 
ized in the British Islands. 
Besides the places I have mentioned where it has been seen 
growing, Mr. Babington states that it was found by Mr. Pol- 
whele on the cliff above Falmouth Harbour ; and I learn that 
there is a specimen in Sir William J. Hooker’s herbarium at 
Kew, sent from Helston, a few miles from Falmouth, by Mr. 
C. A. Johns. 
Glasgow, Oct. 13, 1860. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia : being Observations prin- 
cipally on the Animal and Vegetable Productions of New South 
Wales, New Zealand, and some of the Austral Islands. By 
Grorce Bennett, M.D., F.L.S., F.Z.S. &c. 8vo, London, 
Van Voorst, 1860. 
Lirrte more than seventy years have elapsed since the founda- 
tion of the British colony of New South Wales. At the period of its 
establishment, and for many years afterwards, scarcely anything was 
known in the mother country of the vast island on the shores of which 
this almost infinitesimally small settlement had been made. Even its 
coast-line was only made out imperfectly by numerous voyages of 
discovery; and the condition of its interior has been ascertained 
within the Jast few years. But such are the capabilities of this New 
World, such its adaptation to the production of all the necessaries 
and most of the luxuries of a highly cultivated state of society, that 
within this short period—indeed, within the memory of living men— 
it has advanced from a very unpromising origin to be the most 
important of our colonial possessions, affording a home and an easy 
subsistence to so many thousands of our countrymen, that it is hard 
to find in the old country any one who has not some connexion 
amongst its inhabitants. 
Parallel with this material prosperity, our knowledge of the natural 
productions of Australia has also advanced rapidly. Scientific ex- 
peditions have been sent to explore the coasts and the recesses of 
those parts of the continent not inhabited by white settlers ; private 
collectors have zealously done their part of the work of discovery, 
and some of the first botanists and zoologists of Europe have devoted 
themselves to the task of describing the materials thus collected. 
Upon the Birds and Mammals of Australia we have in this country 
two splendid works from the pen of Mr. Gould, who himself undertook 
a voyage to the Antipodes for the sake of observing his feathered 
favourites in their native haunts. The sea-weeds of the Australian 
coasts have also found an able expositor in Prof. Harvey; and of 
many other groups, both of plants and animals, we possess more or 
less accurate details. 
But the majority of the works in which these particulars are to be 
