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only to a few selected medical plants — mine has 

 100 wood cuts — Brereton botanical Journal, a 

 Horticult. Journal in Baltimore, another in 

 Philadelphia by Landreth, have only reached 

 one or a few numbers. Audubon in his splen- 

 did work on Birds, has given many inaccurate 

 figures of Trees and Shrubs, similar to those of 

 Catesby — The best figures were those of Mi- 

 chaux and Pursh, but those of Hooker now ex- 

 ceed them still. I have published few of my 

 own; many engraved in 1807 for me, were 

 mostly lost before publication. I have reserved 

 my labors in that way for my Icones rariorum 

 yet mpt. and my Autikon Botanikon or plan 

 of Self figures by specimens : of which Grey's 

 Grasses is as yet the only imitation with us. 

 A splended flora of Newfoundland was be- 

 gan in France, but has not been completed. 



The miscellaneous or partial labors on our 

 Botany are very numerous, including tracts, 

 essays, descriptions of single plants &c,. scat- 

 tered in the transactions of our learned societies, 

 Journals and periodicals &c, to seek for them 

 is often a task or difficult matter. Several mo- 

 nographs of New Genera and Species are thus 

 scattered Jeffersonia, Heterandra^ Tullya, 

 liophactis, Polanisia, Nemopafithes, Col- 

 linsia, Clintonia. Many may be found in 

 Silliman's physical Journal. 



Nuttal's Genera of N. America and Eaton's 

 manual of Botany are two of the most striking 

 and useful as general miscellanies. Eaton's 

 has had the luck to go through several editions 

 as a school book ; but each Edition is different, 

 enlarged or revised ; yet very defective in 

 general, and lacking nearly all my new plants. 



