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of the Falkland; and the Beech-trees, evergreen and deciduous, of Cape 
Horn, and many productions of great botanical interest. 
In addition to the extensive collections made bv the officers of the 
Erebus and Terror , during three years spent in high southern latitudes, 
the still unpublished Herbaria formed by Sir Joseph Banks, Forster and 
Solander in Cook’s Voyage, and Menzies in that of Vancouver, all depo¬ 
sited in the British Museum, are placed at the author’s disposal by the 
kindness of Mr. Brown, as are also the plants of Captain Fitzroy’s 
Voyage, by Mr. Darwin and Professor Uenslow. These materials, to¬ 
gether with species from private Herbaria, especially that of Sir William 
Jackson Hooker, of the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew T , will enable the 
author to make a very important addition to the extra-tropical botany of 
the Southern Hemisphere. 
No. L of the Flora Antarctica will appear on the 1st of June of the 
present year, and will be completed in 20 Parts with 160 plates; and 
subscribers are requested to send their names to Messrs. Reeve, No. 8, 
King William-street, Strand. This will be succeeded by : 
Part IL. Flora Novas Zealandias ; 
or, the Botany of New Zealand ; and will contain not only all the plants 
collected by the author in the Northern Island, but will include brief 
characters and more or less full descriptions, and remarks upon all that 
have been discovered by other voyagers, especially Sir Joseph Banks, 
Forster, Menzies (from the Southern Island), Allan and Richard Cun¬ 
ningham, Dielt'enbach, Mr. Bidwill, Dr. Edgerlev, Dr. Logan, Dr. 
Sinclair, and though last, not least in point of importance, the rich col¬ 
lections recently sent to Sir W. J. Hooker by Mr. Cohn so, several of 
whose new species have been already figured in the “ leones Plan 1 arum.” 
During the year and a half that must elapse, previous to printing this 
part of the general work, it is hoped that many novelties will be received 
from the middle island, which has as yet been but partially investigated; 
and we earnestly invite those who may have it in their power to aid in 
rendering the Flora of New Zealand as complete as possible, that they 
will kindly do so, by the communication of good specimens. Even in 
the Northern Island, the lofty mountains have been by no means inves¬ 
tigated as they deserve; yet we are well aware that .be hasty visits paid 
to these elevated regions by Dr. Diction bach, Mr. Bidwdl, and Mr. Co- 
lenso, have been productive of several new and very remarkable plants. 
It lias been already mentioned in this Journal that four distinct species 
of Beech have been detected, inhabiting- the mountain regions, or the 
southern extremity of the group; and it is probable that they may be 
found sufficiently hardy to bear the climate of Britain. One of them 
(Fogvs fusca, Hook. Ic. Plant. Tabs, dcxxx, dcxxxi,) is already in 
cultivation in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, but is, as yet, too young 
to be planted abroad with a prospect of success. The Flora Novae Zea- 
landise will form one vol. with 140 plates; and will be succeeded lastly 
by: 
Part III. Flora Tasmanicaj 
or, the Botany of Van Diemen’s Island, in 2, or probably 3 volumes, il¬ 
lustrated with 200 plates. This will in itself be a Herculean task, and 
the author would shrink from the performance of it. were it not for the 
aid which has been or will be afforded by his friends, whose names will 
be more particularly mentioned in the work itself; but it would be un¬ 
pardonable not to mention on the present occasion the valuable assist¬ 
ance and encouragement already experienced from Ronald Gunn, Esq., 
the then Private Secretary to the excellent Governor, Sir John Franklin, 
