Beschreibung:
This two-volume collection of Robert Brown's 'miscellaneous botanical works', edited by John J. Bennett, was published in 1866-7.
Preface; Part I. Geographico-Botanical Memoirs: 1. The botany of Terra Australis; 2. Plants collected in Abyssinia; 3. The herbarium collected by Professor Christian Smith in the Congo; 4. Plants collected in Captain Ross's voyage; 5. Plants found in Spitzbergen; 6. Plants collected in Melville Island; 7. Plants collected in central Africa; 8. Botany of the Swan River; 9. Botanical appendix to Captain Sturt's expedition; Part II. Structural and Physiological Memoirs: 1. The parts of fructification in mosses; 2. Remarkable deviations from the usual structure of seeds and fruits; 3. A new genus of plants, named Rafflesia; 4. Rafflesia arnoldi and Hydnora africana; 5. Kingia; 6. Particles contained in the pollen of plants; 7. Fecundation in Orchaidaceae and Asclepiadeae (1); 8. Fecundation in Orchidaceae and Asclepiadeae (2); 9. The compound ovarium of plants; 10. The embryos in the seeds of conifera; 11. The gulf-weed; 12. Triplosporite, an undescribed fossil fruit; Index.