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known have been corrected ; some progress has also been niach^ 

 towards a record of the essential as well as differential characters, 

 and towards defining the more exact limits of each genus, and 

 this has been throughout the full extent of my aim. 



From what has been shown in the preceding remarks, it will 

 be seen that much yet remains to be done before we obtain a 

 proper arrangement of the Solanacete and the genera more im- 

 mediately allied to them, and it certainly affords cause for regret 

 that at a period of excellent opportunity, with such abundant 

 materials, with every faciUty at command, and with a consider- 

 able amount of assistance from others, so imperfect a digest of 

 the family should have appeared in the highest standard work of 

 «.iv timp flip <Prnflrnmns* of M. DeCandolle. 



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