T2 INTRODUCTION. 



I examined many exotic or rare Genera. My 

 own library and Herbals of botanical specimens, 

 with the public or private collections of books, 

 figures and plants, have afforded me many ma- 

 terials. Every Genus which I venture to es- 

 tablish has usualy been examined alive or dried, 

 or I have had a good figure or good description 

 to depend upon, sometimes both, or even all 

 those means combined. 



A complete Catalogue of all my botanical 

 works and tracts will be found in chronological 

 order in my Herharium Rajinesquianum 1833. 

 Most of them are now collected in my Ameni- 

 ties of Nature. In 1808 by publishing my N. G. 

 with 69 N. Sp. of North America — In 1810 my 

 N. animals and plants of Sicily, 21 N. G. 80 N. 

 Sp. of plants — my career of discoveries was be- 

 gun. 



In 1814 my chief works were Compendium 

 of Discoveries, with 14 N. G. 78 N. Sp. of 

 plants — 22 N. G. and 30 N. Sp. of plants in my 

 Cyclopedical Journal — besides the principles of 

 Somiology wherein I gave the rules of natural 

 classification for animals and plants : with prin- 

 ciples of nomenclature. In 1815 my main work 

 Analysis of Nature wherein I indicated 310 

 families of plants properly distributed into 66 

 Orders and 10 Classes. As Decandole had 

 then only 150 families, 160 of mine were then 

 new, altho' many have since been adopted with- 

 out due credit for my previous sagacity and 

 good names. Also my Chloris Etnensis publish- 

 ed in Recupero history of Etna, classed natur- 

 aly. 



My florula Ludoviciana of 1817 had 30 N. 

 G. and over 160 N. Sp. admitted from Robin ; 

 I was blamed for having done for him what 



