Botany.] 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
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and in themselves presenting nothing remarkable in their 
internal structure, or external habit, a few remarks on a 
general comparison of the vegetation of the North-west 
Coast, with the other shores of Terra Australis, will con- 
clude this notice. 
It is very necessary to premise, that the plants observed 
and collected upon the North-west Coast, during the late 
voyages, are not to be considered as even a distant ap- 
proach to an entire Flora of that extensive line of shore; 
since the long-established droughts of the seasons, (as 
already remarked,) in which the greater part of that coast 
was vis-ited, had wholly destroyed plants of annual dura- 
tion, with most of the Graminese, and had indeed generally 
affected the mass of its herbaceous vegetation. The col- 
lections, therefore, can simply be viewed as a gleaning, 
affording such general outlines of characteristic feature, as 
will enable the botanist to trace its affinity to the more 
minutely defined vegetation of the other equinoctial shores of 
the continent, as well as perceive its general, and, in sonie 
instances, almost total want of relation to the botany of 
other parts, in the more temperate or higher latitudes, 
where certain striking peculiarities of the Australian Flora 
more particularly exist. 
Upon a general comparison of those collections that were 
thus formed on the North-west Coast, with the plants of the 
North and East Coasts, aided also by some few observations 
made during the voyages, it appears that (with the exception 
of Gompholobium, Boronia, Kennedia, and one or two un- 
published species not referred to any family) the genera (of 
which several are proper to India) are the same, although 
the species are very distinct upon the several coasts. 
Notwithstanding an identity of genera has been remarked 
upon these opposite shores, there are, nevertheless, certain 
