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 on that'pan of Conifa inhabiting the southern hemisphere, may be added some important fcts, to be gthered from tim plants in the tlerbarium of theeate voyages, that will afford a very correct view of the fructification of some doubtS! hera, as well as their limits. Among these the fruit of Po-. doeerpus aspleniifolia of M. Labillardiere, was observed, to- gether with the female fructification of smother tree, (the Huon pine,) found also at the southern extremes and western coust of' Van Diemen's Land, which may prove to be Drydium. Callitris, of which seven species are known, and principally found in the parallel of Port Jackson, him also been discovered upon the North=wet Chest, in about latitude 15 �th; end another species, remarkable for its general robust habit, was observed at Rottnest Island, on thee West C,ot. A tree, most certainly of hls fatnily, and probably (from habit) a Podocarpos, has been seen upon the. Ytst Coust, within the tropic, but the absenco of frueti- ftcation prevented its genus bein satisfactorily determined. With ,respect to the 'extent of the order in the Islands of New Zealand, some recent specimens gathered upon the northern, prove one of its "piues" to be a Podocaxpos; and another, producing a cone, and solP, zry, alternate scattered elliptical leaves, abews its relation to Agathi of Salislmry, Damnmr pine of Amboina. UaTICEr., whose mass appears. also to be con, ned to. equinoctial eoantries, may be considered vsry limited in thOSe trts of Terra Australia lying within the tropic re- cntly explored. Ficus is the most considerable genus of the order in that continent; and although chiefly found ou the north and north-western shores, is also traced on the East Coast, almost to latitude 36 �th, where the trees attain n enormous sie. About sixteen species are pie-

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