A NEW PLANT, FAM KALANOPIIONE.E. (?) 
CHAPTER XXVI. 
BOTANY. 
The botany of New Zealand is extremely interesting, not 
so much for the beauty of its flora, as on account of the fact, 
that it has a peculiar and distinctive character, which marks it 
as being a centre of its own. 
This was noticed by the earliest explorers, and tends to 
prove the truth of the conjecture, which I have hazarded in 
treating of the geological features of the country ; and, al¬ 
though it is true eighty-nine South American species of plants 
have been discovered in New Zealand, and that seventy-seven 
are found in Australia and South America, fifty of which are 
common also to Europe, and that sixty plants of the whole 
flora are European ; still, the fact that there are twenty-six 
