Page:Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Volume 2.djvu/548

 Bow, Nv.] NATURAL HIIOP.Y. and  ml, reseing noing rkab in in. real structure, or exam habi a few remks on a gue compson  e. vegefion of e Nora-west Cs with e oer shores of Terra Ausis,.will cm- ude is notice. It is ve necessy to premise, t e plu obrved d 11ad un e Nora-west  during the !ate voys, e not  be conside  even a dist a proh  an fire Flora of that exnsive line of shore since the long-estabhed drough of e seons, rdy mmked,)  which the r pt of at coast was si, d wholly destroyed plts of annu dura- on,  mos of e Guee, and had indeed generly d e mass of its herbacius vetiou. The fions, therefore, c simply be viewed  a gleanlug, orng such gen outlies of chcsc feure, as 'will enable e boist to trace its nity to e more minuly defined vegeon of e oer equinfi shores of e content,  well as perceive its goneml, and, in some ies most  want of relaon  the boty of other p, in e more mpem or higher latitudes, where  string cuifies of e Australi Flora more particily is Upon �gener mparison of ose collecns at were �us formed on e North-wt Cot, with he plaus of No and t Coast, aided so by some few observafious me uring e voy, it appes that (with the excti0n of Gompholobium, Boronis, Kennedia, and one or two - publied species not refe  y family) the a (of which several are proof to Iua) are the same, e scies are ve disnct upon the several cots. Notwis&ug an idty of uera h n remarke npou e opposi shor thee ares neveheless, certain

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