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 LIST OP PLANTS tccxi

��COLLECTED IN

��MELVILLE ISLAND.

��The following list of the Plants observed in Melville Island, cliiefly in the vicinity of Winter Harbour, is drawn up from the Herbaria of Captain Sabine, Mr. Edwards, j\Ir. 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. Ross, and ]\Ir. Fisher, I am indebted for complete series of specimens of their respective collections ; and I have to offer my acknow- ledgments 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, 1^.:21, when the whole, in comphance with his request, was returned to him.

The delay that has taken place in the publication of the present account has 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 cither from their extremely variable nature, from the incom- plete state of the specimens contained in the collections, or from the want of authentic specimens of other countries, [cdvii with which it was necessary to compare them. I may

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