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LABILLARDIERE 

 Map 1: Botanical Exploration of Australia 1699 — 1793 



commanding H. M. S. Roebuck, landed at a few places along the 

 western coast of Western Australia and gathered a few specimens of 

 plants, some of which were illustrated in his Voyage to New Holland 

 (1703; plate reproduced by Lee, 1925) and Plukenet's Almatheum bo- 

 tanicum, pls. 450 — 454 (1705), and listed under pre-LiNNAEAN polyno- 

 mials in John Ray's Historia Plantarum 3: Appendix 225 — 226 (1704). 

 These plants came from Shark Bay [c]*), the Dampier Archipelago 

 (Rosemary Island) [b] and Roebuck Bay [a], a region with a compara- 

 tively poor flora and visited by Dampier during the dry season. Never- 

 theless, as is shown by his engravings and the twenty-five or so speci- 

 mens preserved at Oxford (for a partial list, cf. Osborn & Gardner, 



•) Letters in square brackets refer to places indicated onsketch-map 1 (p. viii). 



