18 GENERAL PRINCIPLES. 



portable form, Pharmacians would do well to supply themselves 

 with them, or to imitate their useful industry, t 



10. Several of our medical plants and drugs are already an 

 object of trade to Europe and elsewhere. Many more may be- 

 come in demand, when their valuable properties will be better 

 known. 



H. Anew branch of trade may thus be opened, which it is 

 our duty to encourage, by collecting and cultivating our medical 

 plants. 



12. Herbalists and Collectors are often ignorant and deceitful. 

 The best way to prevent their frauds^and correct their blunders 

 5s, by enlightening them, adopting botanical names, and refusing 

 spurious drugs. 



CRITICAL TABLE OF THE PRINCIPAL AUTHORS 



AND WORKS CONSULTED. 



AnAxsoN families of plants. Paris. 



AiTo;^, hortus kewensis — had many new American plants- 



Amebicais- PttARarACOPEiA, or rather of the United States, 



Atlee, Dissertation on Monarda punctata. Fig. 



B. Baiito:^, collections towards a Materia Medica of the United 

 States. Phil. 1798, and Suplt. 1804— ?nany medical plants and 

 properties indicated, no descriptions nor figures. 



W. BAuxoy, 1. Vegetable Materia Medica of the United States. 

 Phih 2 vols. 4'.o. 50 fig.— 2. Flora of North America, 3 vols. 4to. 

 106 fig.— Another costly woi-k 'mentioning about 1 plant in 40 

 of N. Amer. Descriptions short and flimsy. 



Bartjiax— Travels in Florida and the Southern States. Pliila. 



Beck, plants of Missouri, in Silliman's Journal. 



BrcELo^v, 1. American Medical Botany, 3 vols. 4to. Boston, 

 1817, See. 2. Sequel to the American Pharmacopeia, 1 vol. 8vo. 

 1822. 3. FloruU Bostoniensis, 1 vol. 8vo — deficient in species 

 and descriptions. 



BHicKEii., Essay on the plants of Georgia and N. Carolina. 

 Bphsox, Dissertation on 7 medical plants. 

 Cadet, Materia Medica Veget. Guyamensis, 1816. 



Cabtjkh. Travels in XnrfK Xmam'^^n 



