[xxxvi] 

 ABBREVIATIONS USED BY BROWN 



Robert Brown's many citations of botanical literature testify to the 

 thoroughness with which he surveyed the works of others before pu- 

 blishing the results of his investigations as new. They include many 

 books and articles in learned periodicals rarely consulted by later 

 workers on the Australian flora and some of his references, though in- 

 telligible enough to his contemporaries, are likely to give difficulty 

 when an attempt is made to check them by means of a modern library 

 catalogue. Thus the citation 'Thunb. jap.' can easily be recognized as 

 referring to Carl Peter Thunberg's Flora Japonica (1784) but it is 

 not immediately self-evident that 'nov. act. nat. cur. berol.' refers to 

 Der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, neue Scliriften. 

 The list below is intended merely as a simple concise guide to the iden- 

 tification of the works cited by Brown, references to numbered entries 

 of G. A. Pritzel's Thesaurus Literaturae Botanicae ed. 2 (1872 — 77), 

 cited below as Pr., making elaborate bibliographical details unnecessa- 

 ry,although information on dates ofpublication supplementingPRiTZEi/s 

 work has been added here and there. F. M. below refers to Flora Ma- 

 lesiana Ser. I, 4: clxiii - ccxix (1954) by M. J. van Steenis-Kruseman 

 and W. T. Stearn. 



f Known to Brown only from the account in Labillardiere's Novae 



Hollandiae Flantarum Specimen (1804 — 07). 



v. s. Vidi siccam; known to Brown only from herbarium specimens, i. e. 



not collected by himself in Australia. 



v. v. Vidi vivam; known to Brown in a living state, i. e. collected by 



himself in Australia. 



B Collected by Banks and Solander; see pp. viii (Map 1), ix, x, xviii, 



xxxv. 



(D) 



(J) 

 (O) 

 (M) 

 (T) 



act. holm. Stockiiolm. Kongl. Vetenskaps Academie — Nya Hand 



act. stockh. lingar. See Swartz act. holm. 1800 (below). 



act. paris. Paris. Academie Royale des Sciences. — Memoires: see Juss 



(below). 

 Adanson, famill. Adanson, M. — Familles des Plantes. 2 vols. 1763 (Pr. 21) 

 And. repos. Andrews, H. C. — The Botanisfs Repository. 10 vols 



1797—1815 (Pr. 174). For dates of publication, see F. M. 4 



clxvi (1954). 



See pp. viii (Map 1), xiv (Map 2), xix, xxxiv, xxxv, for explanation of 

 these geographical abbreviations. 



