Volume 1: Preface; Part I. Geographico-Botanical Memoirs: 1. The botany of Terra Australis; 2. Plants collected in Abyssinia; 3. The herbarium collected by Professor Christian Smith in the Congo; 4. Plants collected in Captain Ross's voyage; 5. Plants found in Spitzbergen; 6. Plants collected in Melville Island; 7. Plants collected in central Africa; 8. Botany of the Swan River; 9. Botanical appendix to Captain Sturt's expedition; Part II. Structural and Physiological Memoirs: 1. The parts of fructification in mosses; 2. Remarkable deviations from the usual structure of seeds and fruits; 3. A new genus of plants, named Rafflesia; 4. Rafflesia arnoldi and Hydnora africana; 5. Kingia; 6. Particles contained in the pollen of plants; 7. Fecundation in Orchaidaceae and Asclepiadeae (1); 8. Fecundation in Orchidaceae and Asclepiadeae (2); 9. The compound ovarium of plants; 10. The embryos in the seeds of conifera; 11. The gulf-weed; 12. Triplosporite, an undescribed fossil fruit; Index. Volume 2: Preface; Part III. Systematic Memoirs: 1. Plants called Protaceae; 2. The Asclepiadeae; 3 Woodsia, a new genus of ferns; 4. The natural family of plants called Compositae; 5. Three new species of plants found in China; 6. Lyellia, a new genus of mosses; 7. The structure and affinities of Cephalotus; 8. Limnanthes, a new genus of plants; Part IV. Contributions to Systematic Works: 1. Genera et species plantarum Cruciferarum; 2. Genera et species plantarum Leguminosarum; 3. Genera et species plantarum Myrtacearum; 4. Genera et species plantarum Compositarum; 5. Genera et species plantarum Orchidearum; 6. Genera et species plantarum e variis familiis; 7. Dr Richardson's botanical appendix to Franklin's 'Voyage to the Polar Sea'; 8. Names of and notes on Indian plants; 9. Notes and observations on Indian plants; 10. Extracts from Plantae Javanicae Rariores; 11. Contributions to The Botanical Magazine; 12. Contributions to The Botanical Register; 13. Names of plants; 14. Short contributions to various works; Index of subjects to Volume 2; Index of names and plants to both volumes.