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information this list gives so satisfactorily and this one answer will 

 serve for many inquirers. The list is meant to comprise simply the 

 most useful works for the determination of the flowering plants of the 

 regions specified. 



UNITED STATES.— North.— Manual of the Botany of the 

 Northern United States, including the district cast of the Mississippi and 

 north of North Carolina and Tennessee, arranged according to the 

 natural system. By Asa Gray, New York. 8vo. 



South.— Flora of the Southern United States ; containing abridged 

 descriptions of the flowering plants and ferns of Tennessee, North 

 and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Horida, 

 arranged according to the natural system. By A. W. Chapman, M.D. 

 The Ferns by Daniel C. Eaton. New York. 8vo. 



The two following works contain descriptions of the plants grow- 

 ing east of the barren western plains, both North and South. In the 

 second the descriptions are much abridged: 



Class Book of Botany. By Alphonso Wood. New York. Svo. 



American Botanist and Florist. By Alphonso Wood. New 

 Yorlr. small Svo. 



West. — Colorado. — Synopsis of the Flora of Colorado. By 

 Thos. C. Porter and John M. Coulter. Washington. Svo. (Mis- 

 cellaneous Publications. No. 4, of Professor Hayden's Geological 

 and Geographical Surveys of the Territories.) 



Utah and Nevada.— \^K\\iQA States Geological Exploration of the 

 Fortieth Parallel. Clarence King, (ieologist in charge. Botany by 

 Sereno Watson, aided by Professor I). C. Eaton and others. Wash- 

 ington. 4to. 



California.— V>oX.d.\^\ . Vol. I. Polypetala;, by W. H. Brewer 

 and Sereno Watson. Gamopetalai, by Asa Gray. Cambridge 4to. 

 (Uniform with the publications of the Geological Survey of California.) 



Vol. II. Apetalre. Vascular Cryptogams and Mosses. By Sereno 

 Watson and others. 



THE BRITISH IST>ANDS.— Manual of British Botany. By 

 Chas. C. Babbington, F. L. S. London. small Svo. 



Handbook of the British Flora ; a description of the flowering 

 plants and ferns indigenous to. or naturalized in the British Isles. For 

 the use of beginners and amateurs. By (xcorge Bentham, F. L. S. 

 London. Svo. 



The Student's Flora of the P.-itish Islands. By Sir J. D. Hooker, 

 Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. London. small Svo. 



FRANCE — Flore dcs Environs dc Paris. By Casson and Ger- 

 main de Saint Pierre. Paris. Svo. 



S\VITZP:RLAND, — Flore analyticpie dc la Suisse. Vademecum 

 du botaniste. By P. Morthier. Paris and Neuchatcl. i2mo. 



(tERMANY. — Synopsis florae germanica^ et helvetica:, exhibcns 

 stirpes ])hanerogamas et vasculares, cryptogamas rite cognitas, (piai 

 in Germania, Helvetia, Borussia et Istria sponte crescunt atque in 

 hominum usum coj^iosius coluntur: (auctore D. Gull. Dan. Jos. Koch). 

 Leipzig. Svo. Also published in the German language. 



