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esteem in which he was held by the na- 
tives; and satisfied with the gathering of 
plants he had effected, under the circum- 
stances of, in part, an unfavourable season, 
comprising, nevertheless, about three hun- 
dred distinct species, with ample dupli- 
cates; and although many have since 
proved to be among the original discoveries 
of Sir Joseph Banks, some are ascertained 
not to have been previously observed by 
other Botanists, and among these are some 
new genera. 
It is but justice to the memory of Mr. 
‘Charles Fraser, a former Colonial Botanist 
at Sydney, to notice the visit of a day, paid 
by that indefatigable and generous traveller 
to the Bay of Islands in 1825, in one of 
His Majesty's sloops of war, then stationed 
at Port Jackson. In the. passing stay of 
only a few hours, that laborious Botanist 
collected. specimens of an interesting se- 
lection of the plants of its shores, taking 
up many living examples of the vegetable 
products to establish in the Botanic Gar- 
den at Sydney. 
In the year 1833, his successor in the 
direction of that Colonial Garden, the late 
Mr. Richard Cunningham, having been 
directed by the Local Government to at- 
tach himself to His Majesty's ship Buffalo, 
then about to proceed on an experimental 
voyage for spars to the coasts of New Zea- 
land, effected a more leisurely sojourn 
among the inhabitants of that country than 
any scientific stranger who had preceded 
him. But a sketch of the several excur- 
sions of that indefatigable and much to be 
lamented Botanist in New Zealand, has 
already appeared in this work (at p. 210 of 
the present volume), while the botanical 
results of his visit will be seen in the sub- 
sequent synopsis, 
Now the materials gathered, for a more 
extended view than has already been given 
of the Botany of these islands, of which 
so much remains yet to be effected by fu- 
gleaned from the several works, in which 
occasional notices of those more consider- 
able collections of plants already referred 
SPECIMEN OF THE BOTANY OF NEW ZEALAND. 
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to that were gathered in Captain Cook's 
first voyage have been published, as also 
from the Prodromus, published by Mr. 
George Forster, in 1786, and from the 
works of Professor Sir W. J. Hooker, and — 
that recently published by M. Achille - 
Richard. To these, adding the actual dis- 
coveries of Mr. R. Cunningham and those - 
of his brother previously, the whole - 
amount to six hundred and forty distinct — 
species—a number, two-thirds more than — 
what has been enumerated in the last- — 
mentioned work of M. Richard, published — 
only four years ago. 
If to this aggregate number of species, 
thus got together and here enumerated, 
sixty be added, as in all probability, com- 
prehending the remaining number of plants 
of the first voyage of Cook, which are pre- 
served in the Banksian Herbarium, and con- 
tinue yet unpublished, seven hundred dis- 
tinct plants may be said to be the number at 
present known of the Flora of these islands. 
But when we consider how little has been 
seen of the Botany of the northern island, 
notwithstanding that Europeans (engrossed 
truly in mercantile speculations) have now — 
been several years settled on its cost a 
that the plants of the interior of its more — 
expanded parts from the eastern to thewest- — 
ern shores, which lie in the parallels of 38° — 
and 39°, are absolutely wholly unknown, for : 
no Botanist would deem it prudent to at- 1 
tempt a penetration, whatever his zeal may 
be, to its inland districts, through which ex- 
DES a ee EID C UNIUS ILE 
(ECT OSSA FORUM QUOS Rd EET E : 
PISCINE: EET: 
the apex of which towers fourtee 
feet above the ocean, by the waves of 
its base is washed, the upper ur i 
the peak downwards, to an g 1 
thousand feet, being clothed with = 3 
snows—in fine, when we reflect p 5 
fact, that (excepting at its northern x 1 
in Cook's Strait and at Dusky Bay, : - 1 
South-western coast) the Botany jet - 
larger or middle island is, to this day, vee : 
ed from our knowledge, we cannot DUT" — 
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