N°- XI. 
A LIST OF PLANTS, 
COLLECTED IN 
MELVILLE ISLAND, 
BY THE OFFICERS OF THE EXPEDITION; 
WITH CHARACTERS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE NEW SPECIES. 
BY 
ROBERT BROWN, F.R.S. and L.S. 
THE following list of the Plants observed in Melville Island, chiefly in the vicinity 
of Winter Harbour, is drawn up from the Herbaria of Captain Sabine, Mr. Edwards, 
Mr. James Ross, Captain Parry, Mr. Fisher, and Mr. Beverley, whose names are here 
given in the order of the extent of their collections. 
To Captain Parry, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Fisher, and Mr. Ross, I am indebted for complete 
series of specimens of their respective collections ; and I have to offer my acknowledgments 
to Captain Sabine for having allowed me freely to examine his more extensive herbarium, 
and to retain it until he was about to leave England, in October, 1821, when the whole, in 
compliance with his request, was returned to him. 
The delay that has taken place in the publication of the present account lias been, in 
part, owing to the state of my health during a considerable portion of the time that 
has elapsed since the collections were placed in my hands. I have also experienced much 
greater difficulty than I had anticipated in determining many of the species ; arising 
either from their extremely variable nature, from the incomplete state of the specimens 
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