34 FLOEA OF AUSTEALIA. 



the influence which certain species of flowers exercise upon 

 them. With his concluding remarks I perfectly agree, and it is 

 to be hoped that future poets may be able to say of the Aus- 

 tralian honey what Horace does of that found near his beloved 

 Galesus, 



" Hie terrarum mihi praster omnes 

 " Angulus ridet ; ubi non Hymetto 

 " M ella decedunt fyc. 



[The paper of ivhich the following outline appeared in the Gar- 

 dener s Chronicle, contained a popular account of the plants flourish- 

 ing in the neighbourhood of Sydney. I regret that I am unable to 

 publish it in full, as owing to some negligence on the part of a friend 

 in London, the paper was mislaid or lost.'] 



THE BOTANY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



(Gardeners Chronicle, March 16th. 1860) 



T INNEAN : February 21. -Professor Bell, president, in the 

 chair. Certain alterations of the by-laws proposed by the 

 Council were put to the vote, and confirmed by the fellows at 

 large in the terms of the charter. A. W. Crichton, Esq., H. T. 

 Knowles Kempton, Esq., Captain A. F. Lendy, D. Moore, Esq., 

 and C. K. Ord, Esq., M.D., were elected fellows, and Mr. W. 

 Laughrin, an associate of the Society. The following papers 

 were read: 1. Extracts from letters addressed to Sir W. J. 

 Hooker, by Mr. Gustave Mann, describing his second ascent of 

 Clarence Peak, Fernando Po. 2. " Glance at the Botany of the 

 North Shore near Sydney," by William Woolls, Esq., com- 

 municated by the librarian. This was a popular sketch of the 

 native vegetation of the neighbourhood of Sydney. Among 

 other striking plants, the author mentioned Boronia serrulata, or 

 native rose, as the most admired species of the family, and re- 

 marked that there were spots between the North Shore and 

 Manly Beach, which at certain seasons of the year were so en- 



