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in the year 1814, there appeared in America, printed at 
Boston, the Florud ruia Bostoniensis, or a Collection of Plants 
of Boston and its environs, by Jacov Bigelow , M.D. in 1 vol. 
8vo. It is in English, and strictly areaniged according. to the 
Linnzan system. It was destined principally forthe use of 
ne students in Botany; and the plants described therein 
were all collected during two seasons, in the immediate vici- 
nity of Boston, or vi es a circuit of from five to ten miles ; 
and although very fe w species are added, the ounbge of 
individuals is very oreiiiehis for so limited a space.* 
ring the year 1816, accompanied by our valued friend Dr. 
Francis Boott, Dr. Pigeley examined the botany of the 
White Mountains in New-Hampshire, and published an ac- 
count of it in the New- Sistead Journal of Medicine and Sur- 
gery for that year. This was one amony many other journeys 
made by these senemen | in the New-England States, with a 
view to the publication of a Flora of that district. de 
sign, however, has oar relinquished, and the principal cause, 
since it has arisen from Dr. Boott’s naturalization among us, 
we ought not to regret. Science, however, has been a suf- 
ferer; for, from our personal knowledge of this gentleman, 
we are satisfied that he would have been a most able and zea- 
lous coadjutor in such an undertaking. A very extensive col- 
lection of the plants of that country has been liberally pre- 
sented to us by Dr. Boott, which has satisfied us, that in the 
art of preserving specimens, no one has ever exceeded, ar 
Be ever equalled him; and the names are very iregeeet: 
ly accompanied by valuable notes 
It is delightful to see a man, of the talents and rank i in life 
of Mr. Elliott of Charleston, the excellent President of the 
Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina, deeply 
engaged in important P piblic affairs, yet cheerfully “devoting 
his leisure hours to the promotion of the arts and of science, 
and actually engaged in publishing a Flora, under the unas- 
suming title of a Sketch of the Flora of South Carolina and 
* At the moment of our sending these oe to the press, we have 
received from its esteemed author, who a Professor in Hatinal — 
Florula Bostoni 
containing about ag the number of plants enumerated in the first 
ition, and ee ee ee pence | on the useful na- 
tures and qnal as ot the s low is also the author of a 
valuable oe Tentitiod, American ve dicul Botany, begun in 1817, of 
which three parts have reached u 
