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and pious reflections : they evince a pure, a contented, and 

 therefore a happy spirit in the writer ; and we join most cor- 

 dially with him in believing, that if a decided partiality for this 

 beautiful and fascinating study were imbibed in the days of 

 our youth, follies, sanctioned by fashion and example, would 

 lose much of their influence on our future lives. " The sin- 

 gular form of this flower claims our particular attention. In- 

 deed, the same may be said in a greater or less degree of 

 every thing which God has made ; and sure it is, that our hap- 

 piness would be unspeakably promoted by a more habitual 

 contemplation of such things. They are the productions of 

 our owa almighty Creator, Preserver, and Benefactor, and we 

 may, at least in an imperfect ^nd feeble manner, behold His 

 glory in the glory of His works." 



Tcmpletonia glauca, Epidendrum mdans, and Podalyria 

 styracifolia, are three other plants I'emarkable for the singu- 

 larity of their blossoms. 



The First Part of Dr. Hooker's Exotic Flora appeared du- 

 ring the last month, and we hasten to lay before our readers 

 a short account of its interesting contents. This publication 

 is designed to present such figures and descriptions of the 

 parts of fructification as may render the knowledge of the 

 genera, and the natural orders of plants, more easy to the bo- 

 tanical student ; for which purpose, such plants are as much 

 as possible selected as are worthy of notice from their novelty, 

 rarity, history or uses, or some peculiar or little understood 

 characteristic in their flowers and fruit. With the view to 

 render this work extensively useful, an octavo size has been 

 preferred, with the engravings plain ; nevertheless there are a 

 lew copies published which have the plates beautifully co- 

 loured. It is to appear in parts, of 20 plates each, every three 

 months. 



The Part, which is now published, commences with Tab. 1 . 

 Caladium Seguimim (^Arum, Linnaeus), the Diimh Cane of the 

 West Indies. Here we have a highly finished, but reduced, 

 figure of the whole plant, with tlie spadix and spatha of the na- 

 tural size, and the flowers magnified : the descriptive part con- 

 sists of the class and order of the individual, its generic and spe- 

 cific characters, in Latin; and a few only of the most important 

 synonyms, (so that the page is not burthened with what more 

 properly finds place in the works of Willdenow and De Can- 

 dolle) ; then follows an ample description of the species ; and, 

 lastly, whatever is interesting in the history of the plant, with 

 references to the figures. This plan of the letter-press is adopt- 

 ed throughout. — No. 2 is the Ithipsalis Cassid/ia, a genus 



which 



