106 VENTENAT. 



The Genera Plantarum of Jussieu, with all his 

 characters and remarks, have been translated into 

 French by Ventenat, who has interspersed several 

 additional observations. His work makes four octavo 

 volumes, the first containing a dictionary of Botany. 

 The last, besides a general analytical table, is 

 enriched with plates of the fructification of every one 

 of Jussieu's Orders, drawn by the masterly hand of 

 Redoute. For such a purpose, however, the very best 

 figures are hardly sufficient. Nothing is so instruc- 

 tive as Nature herself; and the student who has 

 made sufficient progress in Botany to understand the 

 foregoing explanations of Jussieu's System, will be 

 at no loss to procure examples, of the greater part of 

 his Orders at least, by the dissection and comparison 

 of whose structure he will gradually become fami- 

 liarized with the subject, though it's details are 

 inexhaustible. 



