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R. Brown. Appendix to Flinders Voyage

p. 586. chief peculiarities of Australian Flora lie between 33° & 35° S. Lat. & at its two ends, being remarkably diminished in middle between 133° & 138° E. Long. Within Tropic, at least on East Coast, the departure from Australian character most evident, & are assimilation to that of India

p. 588. General character of S. American Veg. differs much more from Australia, than this does from Cape ie Australia & Africa more allied together than Australia with Africa America (so is Congo, W. Africa & India more allied than W. Africa with S. America)

p. 589 acquainted with no tribe common to S. Africa & S. America, at same time wanting in Australia except with bilabiate corolla Compositae ie Flora has travelled Eastwards (by West wind)

(inexplicable on creation theory)

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I conceived Europe plants travel [from] N. [America] to T. del Fuego then by Antarctic Islds to Australia. It really wd be among the set list of Brown Europe plants & see if in Hooker. There ought to be far more Europe plants in T. del Fuego then in Australia, & I fancy there is – rather more in New Zealand then.

NB. Bearing in mind gap covering Baffins Bay in vegetation great difficulty was junction with Europe before glacial. I shd think so by existing land then separated & northern lands occupied by new forms subsequently.

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p. 590 in the list of plants common to Europe & Australia the proportions of Monocots Dicot & Acots are inverted to what they are in the whole Australian Flora - Of Dicot. only 15 common to Europe, of Monocot. 30, & of Acot. 120 a - The Phænogam plants in this list are with very few exceptions common to N. America. (Again travelling West or rather going round world) Of the Dicot, though several grow in wet or marshy ground, few are properly aquatics - all have plumule of embryo not evolved. Of the Monocot, a considerable number are aquatics; & the non-aquatic belong to the irregular & simpler tribes.

p 591. The proportion of Europæan plants, though only 1/10 of whole, appears greater than in Flora of S. Africa. Vegetation of C. Good Hope almost as distinct from Europe, as

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p. 542. Pittosporeæ, Pittosporum this only genus in order not confined to Australia, & this has the most extensive range of all the genera in that country, & has been found in many other parts of world, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Society, Sandwich, Moluccas, China, Japan, & even Madeira.

[in margin:] if it has peculiar species in each district, very good

p. 607. it is remarkable that Synaphea & Conospermum, (Proteaceae) two nearly related genera, differ in the position of their barren & fertile stamina with relation to the perianthemum; "plants of the same natural family very generally agreeing in the order of abortion or suppression of these organs," to this, however, some other exceptions occur.