tne 
Dr. Hooker on Americun Botany. 263 
Table A. fig. 1. C. aristata. Vol. VII. p. 277. 
“ ditto 2. lenticularis. Vol. vi, py 2T8. 
: . IX. p. 61. 
“ditto 6. formosa. Vol. Vill. p. 98. 
“ditto 11. Deweyana. Vol. 1X. ps 62. 
“* ditto 12. trisperma, Vol. IX. p. 63. 
Axr. IX. ip the Botany of America. oy Wivuras Jacx- 
son Hooxer, LL.D. F.R.S E.* 
Iv noticing, as we propose to do, the progress of botany, 
and the present state of that science in various parts of f Eu. 
rope, it is by no means our intention to pass by in silence 
what has been effected by our brethren in North America, a 
country which, for extent and interest, has scarcely any pa- 
rallel in the world. If we were to estimate it from its south- 
ern extremity, we should commence our calculations at the 
tenth degree of north latitude; but as we shall confine our 
observations to those districts which have submitted to the 
sway of the United States, or to those which may, with more 
propriety, be termed the British possessions in North Ame- 
rica, we shall omit the Mexican dominions altogether; re 
beginning with the thirtieth degree of latitude, we have 
space extending northward beyond the arctic circle ; and if 
we include the island of Newfoundland, through eighty de- 
grees of longitude in its utmost breadth. The vegetation ts 
as various as are the climate and the soil, throughout this vast 
extent of continent. In the Floridas grows a majestic species 
of Palm, (Chamerops Palmetto, ) and the Orange, the Cot- 
ton, the ay oe and even the Sugar cane may be cultivated 
there to great perfection and advantage. In the Carolinas 
and the Pi loridas the eye of the traveller is charmed with the 
beauty and grandeur of the forest trees, the various species of 
Evergreen oak, the numerous kinds of Pine, Malis, and 
*From Dr. Brewster’s Edinbureh Journal of Science, No. TEL, p. 108. 
