GENEEAL REMAEKS, &c. 



The coasts of the great South Land commonly tsss* 

 called New Holland have been discovered partly by Dutch 

 and partly by English navigators. Captain Minders, con- 

 sidering it therefore unjust towards the Enghsh to retain 

 a name for the whole country which implies its discovery 

 to have been made by the Dutch alone, has thought proper 

 to recur to its original name Terra Australis ; under which 

 he includes the small islands adjacent to various parts 

 of its coasts, and the more considerable southern island 

 called Van Diemen's Land. 



In this extended sense I shall use Terra Australis in the 

 following observations, but when treating of the principal 

 Land separately, shall continue to employ its generally 

 received name New Holland ; that I may be more readily 

 understood by botanists, for whom these observations are 

 intended, and preserve consistency with the title of a work, 

 part of which I have already published, on the plants of 

 that country. 



In the following pages I have endeavoured to collect 

 such general, and at the same time, strictly botanical, ob- 

 servations on the vegetation of Terra Australis, as our very 

 limited knowledge of this vast country appears already to 

 aflFord. To these observations are added descriptions of a 

 few remarkable plants, which have been selected for publi- 

 cation, from the extensive and invaluable collection of 

 drawings made by Mr. Ferdinand Bauer in New Holland, 

 chiefly during the voyage of the Investigator. 



* These figures throughout the volume correspond with the paging in the 

 original. 



