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Mr. Brown's Observations on the 
This class of plants, for which I retain the established name 
Composite, in preference to any of those recently proposed, 
has lately become the subject of a minute and accurate exami¬ 
nation by Mons. Henri Cassini; two of whose Memoirs on the 
Style and Stamina of the class, already published in the Journal 
de Physique*, are in my opinion models for botanical investiga¬ 
tion. 
A few years before the publication of M. Cassini’s Memoirs on 
Compositce I was induced to examine a considerable part of this 
extensive family, chiefly with a view to the more accurate deter¬ 
mination of the New Holland plants belonging to it. 
My principal object in the present paper is to communicate such 
general observations, the results of this investigation, as either have 
not yet been published by M. Cassini, or respecting which I consi¬ 
der myself to have anticipated that author in my General Remarks 
on the Botany of New Holland, appended to Captain Flinders’s 
Voyage to Terra Australis. 
To these observations I shall add some remarks on certain ge¬ 
nera of Composite, which occur repeatedly under different names 
in late systematic works, and whose structure and limits appear 
to be imperfectly understood. 
My first observation relates to the peculiar disposition of the 
nerves or vessels of the corolla of this family of plants. 
In the essay already mentioned, which appeared early in the 
summer of 1814, I have noticed this peculiarity in the following 
terms: 
« * Of 1813 and 1814. 
“ The 
