184 ; Bibliography. 
illustrated.-by wood cuts,) and a brief notice of their properties and 
uses. ‘This is followed by the Alliances of Plants, a conspectus of the 
method for grouping the orders employed in the second edition of the 
author’s Introduction to the Natural System. To this succeeds a sketch 
of a new distribution of the vegetable kingdom; in which the author 
gives prominence to some characters employed by Jussieu, «&c., but 
which he had until lately deemed of minor comparative importance. 
The plan now suggested may be easily made to harmonize with that of 
Endlicher. The portion denominated Medical Botany, consists of a list 
of the principal medicinal plants which are known in a living state in 
Europe, arranged and numbered according to the author’s Flora Med- 
ees with a brief indication of their properties and uses. 
4 Botanical Teacher Ar North America, sie soho are iisecrsbed the 
and common exotic plants growing north of Mexico ; by 
reine ea under the’ stipervision of Prof, A. Eaton. « Second 
edition, Troy, 1840, . pp. 268, 12mo.—On the first page of this work, 
our attention was arrested by a sweeping charge against the teachers 
6f botany in this country, which in justice we shall extract verbatim : 
“ The second set [of authors ] are actuated by the sinecurism of bota- 
ny. ‘Their books are incongruous compilations, to be forced upon pu- 
pils by teachers. The teachers are mostly rewarded by book-pedlars, 
who are authorized to present them with a few copies and many compli- 
ments for this service. Neither of these kind of authors or» teachers 
conceive it a duty to make practical botanists of their puplis. Stucemae 
are made to believe, and so teach their students in turn, that 
lessons make the botanist. Perhapsa few garden plants are sometimgs 
shown as a fallacious pretence. Many pelle of our schools, of 
fair names, have been occupied for years in this manner.” This isa 
apogee charge, if true, which we trust it is not, and is preferred 
small the benefit they are likely to derive 
from their study, The following morceau; extracted from the. ease 
page, will enable our botanical readers to judge for themselves)» ~~ 
»_ “The student, before he studies vegetable physiology, «and oat 
alliances of plants, must understand the seed, with its astigmatous sacs 
or teste. The ovule (with all its. appendages. within the stigmiferous 
¢.or carpel) becomes the seed, with its testa or tripple [sie] euticles 
US outer, sacks, ~<a case of the aol the white meat is the seeds 
pisheavering jnside.of-the shell;.and.the very smoot” onto 
ve BE 
- pe Saas 
Ee , 
