The miscellaneous botanical works of Robert Brown/Volume 1

by Robert Brown (compiled by John Joseph Bennett)

THE


RAY SOCIETY.


INSTITUTED MDCCCXLIV.

This volume is issued to the Subscribers to the Ray Society for
the Year 1866.


LONDON:

MDCCCLXVI.

THE



MISCELLANEOUS



BOTANICAL WORKS



OF



ROBERT BROWN, ESQ., D.C.L., F.R.S.,
FOREIGN ASSOCIATE OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE
INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, ETC., ETC., ETC.



VOL. I.
CONTAINING
I. GEOGRAPHICO-BOTANICAL.,
AND
II. STRUCTURAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL MEMOIRS.



LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE RAY SOCIETY BY
ROBERT HARDWICKE, 192, PICCADILLY.

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MDCCCLXVI.

PREFACE.

(BY THE EDITOR.)

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The present volume contains the first portion of the works of the distinguished author, now for the first time collected in England, and reprinted from the originals, without change, in accordance with his express desire. It had been his intention to reprint them himself with annotations, but, unfortunately for science, this intention was never carried out, and it remained for the Editor simply to superintend a verbatim reprint.

The Memoirs are arranged in three divisions—1st. Geographico-Botanical; 2nd. Structural and Physiological; 3rd. Systematic. Of course this arrangement is in some degree arbitrary, inasmuch as observations relating to both of the other divisions are continually occurring in the Memoirs referred to each of them; but, on the whole, it has appeared to be the most convenient for reference. The present volume contains the first two of these divisions; the second will be devoted to Systematic Memoirs and Miscellaneous Descriptions of Plants; and a separate volume, in large 4to, will contain the illustrative figures to both.

JOHN J. BENNETT.

December 30th, 1865

CONTENTS.

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PART I.

GEOGRAPHICO-BOTANICAL MEMOIRS.

	PAGE
General remarks, Geographical and Systematical, on the Botany of Terra Australis	1—89
List of new and rare Plants, collected in Abyssinia during the years 1805 and 1810, arranged according to the Linnean System	91—95
Observations, Systematical and Geographical, on the Herbarium collected by Professor Christian Smith, in the vicinity of the Congo, during the expedition to explore that river, under the command of Captain Tuckey, in the year 1816	97— 173
List of Plants collected by the Officers, &c., in Captain Ross's voyage, on the coasts of Baffin's Bay	175—178
Catalogue of Plants found in Spitzbergen by Captain Scoresby	179—182
Chloris Melvilliana, a List of Plants collected in Melville Island, in the year 1820, by the Officers of the Voyage of Discovery under the orders of Captain Parry	183—256
Observations on the Structure and Affinities of the more remarkable Plants collected by the late Walter Oudney, M.D., and Major Denham, and Captain Clapperton, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824, during their expedition to explore Central Africa	257—303
General View of the Botany of Swan River	305—312
Botanical Appendix to Captain Sturt's Expedition into Central Australia	313—340

PART II.

STRUCTURAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL MEMOIRS.

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Some Observations on the Parts of Fructification in Mosses; with Characters and Descriptions of two new Genera of that Order	343—355
On some remarkable Deviations from the usual structure of Seeds and Fruits	357—366
An Account of a new Genus of Plants, named Rafflesia	367—398
On the Female Flower and Fruit of Rafflesia Arnoldi and on Hydnora Africana	399—431
Character and Description of Kingia; a new Genus of Plants found on the South-west coast of New Holland. With Observations on the Structure of its Unimpregnated Ovulum, and on the Female Flower of Cycadeæ and Coniferæ	433—461
A Brief Account of Microscopical Observations made in the Months of June, July, and August, 1827, on the Particles contained in the Pollen of Plants; and on the General Existence of Active Molecules in Organic and Inorganic Bodies	463—486
Observations on the Organs and Mode of Fecundation in Orchideæ and Asclepiadeæ	487—543
Supplementary Observations on the Fecundation of Orchideæ and Asclepiadeæ	545—551
On the Relative Position of the Divisions of Stigma and Parietal Placentæ in the Compound Ovarium of Plants	553—563
On the Plurality and Development of the Embryos in the Seeds of Coniferæ	565—576
On the Origin and Mode of Propagation of the Gulf-Weed	577—582
Some Account of Triplosporite, an undescribed Fossil Fruit	583—591

Index

593–612