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but without descriptions. Lord Auckland’s group was also visited, in 
the same year, by Commodore Wilkes’s Expedition, when very few, if 
any, plants appear to have been collected ; and more recently by Gen. 
Bolton, who added several species to the Flora of the group. 
Considering how many beautiful plants different from those of New 
Zealand these islands contain, it is obvious that they deserve a very 
close and careful botanical scrutiny.* 
Macquarrie’s Island, A few plants from this desolate spot were 
sent to Sir W. Hooker by Mr. Fraser, when Superintendent of the 
Sydney Botanic Garden. 
Of Bounty or Antipodes Islands nothing whatever seems to be bo- 
tanically or geographically known. 
The Flora of Lord Howe’s Islands is intermediate in character (as the 
islands are in position) between that of New Zealand and Australia, but 
much more nearly allied to the latter; whilst Norfolk Island, which 
should perhaps have been included in the New Zealand group, is much 
more tropical and may have equal claims to rank botanically with the 
New Caledonian or Fiji Islands. 
Of the 303 New Zealand genera of Flowering plants described in this 
part, about 252 (containing 222 species and 51 representatives) are 
common to Australia ; 171 (containing 11 species and 32 representatives) 
to South America ; 31 are peculiar to the group (comprising 59 species), 
and 6 (with 20 species) are found in the Pacific islands and elsewhere, 
but not in Australia or South America. 
Again, of the 935 species of Flowering plants, 677 are peculiar to the 
islands ; 222 are Australian ; and 111 American. There are further 51 
Australian representative and 32 American representative species. 
Comparing New Zealand with Europe, these countries have 115 genera 
and 58 species in common, the latter including many water-plants, and 
several land-plants which are doubtful natives. Of these European 
genera, the shrubby Veronicas and Ligusticum are the only ones that 
appear to be vastly more numerous in New Zealand than in Europe. 
It remains for me to apologize for many imperfections that will be 
* Of about one hundred Flowering plants, natives of these small groups, no less than 
twenty-seven are hitherto unknown in New Zealand proper, including three genera and 
twelve most conspicuous and singular species, viz., Ligtisticum latifolium and antipodum , 
Pleurophyllum two species, Celmisia vernicosa, Gentiana two species, Vtantago Antarctica , 
Chiloglottis cornuta, Anthericum Rossii, Rostkovia two species. 
