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Notice of Dr. Hooker's Flora of New Zealand. 241 
Art. XX VI.—Jntroductory Essay, in Dr. Hooker’s Flora of 
New Zealand: Vol. 1.* 
Dr. J. D. Hooxer, thé Botanist of the Antarctic Expedition - 
under Capt. Sir James C. Ross, on his return to England—com- 
bining with his own extensive collections and observations all the 
accessible materials which have been accumulating in herbaria 
ever since the first voyage of Capt Cook—courageously assumed 
the task of preparing general floras of the three principal masses 
of southern land, in which his researches were made ; viz., Ant- 
arctic America, New Zealand, and Tasmania. The first of these 
undertakings was accomplished several years since, in the publi- 
cation of the Flora Antarctica; including Antarctic America 
With the Falkland Islands, the Campbell and Auckland Islands 
(properly pertaining to the New Zealand region), and the remote 
Kerguelen’s Land. Some abstracts were given in this Journal at 
of the work, as interesting to the systematic botanist alone. 
of the New Zealand Flora, and its relation to that of other countries. 
The history of the Botany of New Zealand, from the visit of 
Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander, during Capt. Cook’s first voy- 
age, in 1790, down to the present time, need not arrest our 
attention. 'The actual number of species inhabiting these islands 
18 matter which it would be interesting to know, even approxi- 
mately. Dr. Hooker has brought together about 2,000 species in 
* The Bo ; ie V of H. M. Discovery Ships Erebus and 
poe, in eee ee a ae command of Capt. Sir James ond 
Flow. by Joseph Dalton Hooker, MD.,, ete. ete. Il. Flora N ovee-Zelandie, Part 
ering Plants, London. Lovell Reeve, 1852-1853. pp. $12, 4to, tab 70. 
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