By Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. 



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scope to these experiments ; many plants have been brought 

 from thence which endure our climate with very little pro- 

 tection, and some of these arrive at puberty at an early 

 period ; we have already three from the south point of V T an 

 Diemen's Land, where the climate cannot be wholly without 

 frost ; Mimosa verticillata, Eucalyptus hirsuta, and obliqua. 

 The first of these appears to have produced flowers within 

 eight years of its first introduction ; but as a settlement is 

 now made very near the spot where the seeds of these Shrubs 

 were collected, we may reasonably hope to receive further 

 supplies, and, among them, the Winterana aromatica, an 

 inhabitant of the inhospitable shore of Terra del Fuego, which 

 Mr. Brown has discovered on the south part of Van Die- 

 men's Land also. 



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