4 INTRODUCTION. 



Under such predicament, I was compelled 

 to decide upon a middle course; and I therefore 

 undertook this work as a Supplemental Flora 

 of North America, a kind of mantissa and ap- 

 pendix to all my predecessors, avoiding there- 

 by much expense and trouble in accumulating 

 all the scattered materials and fragments alrea- 

 dy published: altho' I endeavored to collect 

 them whenever I had to frame some peculiar 

 careful monographs of neglected Genera or fa- 

 milies. The illustration by figures of my New 

 Genera and New Species will be kept apart in 

 mpt. to be sold apart to any institution or indi- 

 vidual that wish to possess them, as well as my 

 botanical specimens, general Herbarium, and 

 original typical sets collected together under 

 the name of my Autikon Botanikon. 



I have called this work, a Neio Flora of North 

 America, and such it is in fact : a real Flora, 

 although not classed by the false sexual system, 

 nor even my own improved natural method, 

 but arranged diflerently. I do not even know 

 yet exactly how it will be gone through ; but 1 

 propose to commence by a sample of a Lexi- 

 con to be contrasted with the manual Lexicon 

 of Eaton, and go on with monographs of inte- 

 resting Genera or Families, with a Sylva of my 

 New Trees and Shrubs, a JSeogenylon or ac- 

 count of New Genera, and a Neohotanon or 

 compendium of new species. I may, however, 

 deviate from this plan if needful or desirable, 

 and I hope to conclude the whole by a general 

 Index, both alphabetical and classified natural- 

 ly of all the Families and Genera. 



While I was preparing this work, I found 

 myself so often perplexed and involved into dif- 

 ficulties, by the actual improper framing of Ge^ 



