FERN PINE, OF NEW SOUTH 
WALES. 
•There is, perhaps, no country, hitherto 
discovered, which afFords a more ample fiekl 
ibr the gratification of the naturalist, in the 
science of botany, than that part of New 
South Wales which has been, settled and ex--, 
plored by the English:. In the articles of 
-Grasses, and Ferns, several of which are per- 
fecftly new, it is peculiarly fertile and variouSo 
But, though- this remote part of the world has. 
had the very rare honour to be visited by the 
first naturalists of Europe, even in. this particular 
brancli of the science,, and by some for the 
express purpose of colle6^ing novelties in the 
vegetable kingdom,, who have necessarily,, by 
their researches, added much to the stock of 
botanical knowledge, we have still to regret 
that, from their limited stay,, and that in a 
stage of the discovery too early for the acqui- 
sition of such information as ha^s since beeu 
easily acquirable, many of the most scarce,, 
cuncus, and useful plantSj^ in this ricli region, 
