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 APPENDIX. -(B. species; d/scovered formerly in the great Gul� of Carpen Mr/e, there were several most interesting nw plants. With a View towards an entire completion of the survey of the several coasts of the continent. that part of New South Wales within the twpie, north of Cape Bedford, which was not seen by Captain Cook, entered into the plans of the iaennaid's second voyage, and it was highly gratifying to my feel/age to reflect, that it was reserved for me to como plate several specimem, discovered formerly in impeffect states by those eminent naturalists who accompanied the abov great cireumnavigator, in 1770, deshierata,-that have been wanting ever since this period of the/r discovery; no mediums of eommmfieation with those particular parts of the coast.having preeentd themselves. The agregats of the several collections that have been fmed dur/n tbs progress of the four voyages, unde tl general circmmstsnces above briefly referred to, and which, as constituting a small Herbarium, will be thus collect/very spoken of in the followin remarks, does not exceed one thousand three hundred species of Phcenogamotm plants; of these five hundred and twenty are already described by authors, the other portion being in part unpublished species, previously discovered on other coasts of Terra Aastralis, and in part absolutely new, referrib}e, however, mostly to wei daRned genera. Of Cryptogamons plants, there are but few species, and of these, or parasitical Orchidea,.none have been detected in .these voyages in add/t/on to tlmsc already described :. a c/reumstance, that with respect to the North-west Coast can reasonably be accomired for, from the non.existence of primary moanrains, o !end above very darers elevation 7 by the abemice of lofty dense forests, (points of character necessary to that permanency of atmo- spheric moisture, which comt/tt__ an essential requis/te to

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