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REMARKS 



O N 



THE 



VEGE- 



T ABLE 



KINGDOM 



to the new ones; but there is great reafon to fuppofe that, mcluding 

 both the illes of New-Zeeland, a Flora of no lefs than 400 or 500. 

 fpccies, on a careful fcrutiny, might be colleded together ; efpe- 

 cially if the botaniil fliould come at a more advanced feafon than 

 the beo-inning of fpring, or not fo late as the beginning of winter ; 



n 



I 



t which tin 



we had the 



ly opportunities of vifiting this 



iitry 



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In the trooical iiles, the p 



very different 



All 



our 



acquifit 



of new and known fpecies 

 ; of new ones from them 



1 



amount to. about 220 fpecies y and. the collecftion of the known or 

 Linnsan, to no, which gives the v/hole number 330; and (hews. 



that one third were well known before 



C 



contri- 



butes not a little tov/ards this, becaufe it probably contains fuch 

 plants, as the firfl fettlers of thefe iiles brought withthein from 

 their original Eaft-Indian feats, which of courfe are mofl likely to 

 be known 3, and, with thefe cultivated ones, it is to be fuppofed 

 there might come, the feeds of many wild ones, alfo of Eafl-Indian 



The 



new 



growth, and confequently known to the botanifts. 

 plants, therefore, can only be thofe which originally grew, pecur- 

 liar to thefe countries, and fuch as have efcaped the vigilance of the 

 Europeans in India. 



The number of individual fpecies (330) which we found in the 



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trooical iiles, (old and new) is by no means to be confidered as a 



perfe(Il 



