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student of American botany, but to botanists in general, as illustrating 
very many genera common to other countries as well as to the United 
States, and executed with a degree of accuracy and talent only elsewhere 
to be met with, as we have already remarked, in the works of Endlicher, 
and of Theod. Fred. von Esenbeck. We hail its appearance, too, as an in- 
dication of the success the first volume has met with; and the better it 
becomes known, the more highly it will be appreciated. The arrange- 
ment is that of De Candolle, with slight alterations. An entire leaf is 
devoted to the character of each genus, and one, and sometimes two 
plates, if the analysis requires them. 
The volume commences with Caryophyllacea, comprising Mollu- 
ginee, Scleranthee, and Illecebree, and including fifteen genera; and 
these pages are not devoted to dry descriptions, but the affinities of the 
families and the genera are discussed in a masterly manner, and the 
properties and uses of the genera and species belonging to them. 
Malvacee follows, with fifteen genera; Bytineriacez, two; Tiliacea, 
two; Terustronniacee, two; Linacee, one; Oxalidacee, one ; Zygophylla- 
cec, five; Geraniacee, two; Balsaminacee, one, with two illustrative 
plates; Limnanthacee, two; Rutacee, one; Xanthorylacee, two; 
Ochnacee, two; Anacardiacee, one, two plates; Vitacee, two; Rham- 
nacee, seven ; Celastracee two; Staphyleacee, one ; Malpighiacee, one ; 
Aceracee, two; Sapindacee, five, seven plates; Polygalacee, one, two 
plates; and lastly Krameriacee, with two plates. Neither the author 
nor the artist has spared pains to make the work perfect of its kind, 
and worthy of a place in the library of every man of science, and 
especially every student of plants ;—worthy of a much longer notice, 
too, which will shortly appear in the pages of this Journal. 
Tuomas G. Lea’s Catalogue of Plants, native and naturalized, collected 
in the vicinity Ads Cincinnati, Ohio, between " years 1834—1844. 
Philadelphia, 184 
Botany is making pe progress in North America, as is evinced 
by the appearance of local Floras. The present little volume, though 
called a Catalogue, is more than that ; for, besides containing an accurate 
list of Pheenogamous plants and Ferns, and perhaps a less complete 
one of Mosses and Hepatice, there are, among the Lichens, several 
