is versed enough in Nat. Hist. even for that. I send the comp. Flora of Sandwich & Society: it is very imperfect, I could not send it before, as I had some things to add to it. as it is I think it shews positively no relation between the two groups. Even the canaille are not the same in the two. I have had to drop the Pacific Flora, from want of time ⁠⟨⁠    ⁠⟩⁠

⁠⟨⁠    ⁠⟩⁠ from the context he² cannot mean, without he compares the M^ts. to the plains below: Certainly the genera remind one of Europe, especially Wicken (vetches Vicia.) &c. I can however hardly see how so very few Proteaceae as there are, can much remind him of New Holland a place I suppose he never saw & singular fruited Legum. grow all over the world & ⁠⟨⁠    ⁠⟩⁠ Holld. that I remember.. Gnapha⁠⟨⁠lium⁠⟩⁠