I lO 
SIR JOSEPH BASKS. 
Lijthrum hyssopifolium. Ad vias prope Sydney. 
Euphorbia Peplus. In hortis ubique. 
Frayaria vesca. 
Stachys arvensis. Prope Sydney. 
Erodium moschatum. Ad Parramatta. 
? Lepidium didymum. Ubique ad vias. 
Vida saliva. 
? Cotula coronopifolia. 
Malva capensis. Ad oppidum Sydney prope domum D. Chapman. 
Poa annua. 
Panicum Dactylon.. 
Phalaris canariensis. 
Lnliuni temulentum. In agris frequens vitium. 
Loliurn perenne. Rarius ad vias. 
Briza virens [minor]. Prope domum Gubernatoris ad Sydney. 
Anagallis crerulea. Prope domum D. Caley ad Parramatta. 
Sderanthus annuus. In hortu D. Caley. 
Cerastium vulgatum. In hortu D. Caley. 
Anagallis arvensis. In vicinitate Sydney. 
Urtica urens. In ruderatis, &c., prope Sydney. 
The letter of Banks to Secretary Marsden of the Admiralty, January, 
1806,* is an interesting and valuable document, detailing the work 
of Brown and Ferdinand Bauer in the Australian trip, from which 
they had just returned. It gives an estimate of the number of species 
brought home by Brown, and an enumeration of the sketches of plants 
and of animals made by Bauer. It also details the propositions of 
Banks for the working up by Brown and Bauer of these collections. 
Then comes the work of Brown who was engaged, until 1810, on 
the task of working up the material he had collected in Australia. 
He had been on the books of the “ Investigator ” during the Austrahan 
expeditions, and his five years’ work in England continued to be at 
the cost of the Admiralty. The work of Brown and Bauer was super- 
vised by Banks, to whom progress reports were furnished by the 
botanist and artist respectively. Brown’s letter to Banks, of 18th 
June, 1807,t gives a progress report of his work on the plants he 
brought home in the “ Investigator.” He mentions — “ The interesting 
novelties to the botanist are, however, numerous, and are chiefly 
contain’d in the natural orders — Proteacese, Rubiaceae, Campanulaceae, 
and Orchideje.” 
• Hist. Rec., vi, 17. 
t Ib., 268. 
