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journal, of the Florida Lexingtoniensis, or a description of plants 

 growing around Lexington, Kentucky. He also published a cata- 

 logue, with several supplements, of the Phaenogamous Plants and 

 Ferns of Kentucky. That zealous and truly liberal botanist has 

 probably done more towards bringing to light the vegetable trea- 

 sures of the West, and in preparing beautiful specimens, than any 

 other person in our country ; and he has, certainly, in the way of 

 exchanges and remittances, sent more western plants to his cor- 

 respondents in the Atlantic States, and throughout the Old World, 

 than all the rest of our American botanists put together. 



In 1833, Doctor Lewis C. Beck, of Albany, N. Y., published 

 an excellent duodecimo volume, entitled Botany of the Northern 

 and Middle States. This is arranged in conformity with the most 

 approved natural method, and is a very judicious, convenient, 

 and useful work. A second edition has been recently issued. 



In the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, for 

 1834, was published an elaborate Synopsis of North American 

 Fungi, by the late Rev. Lewis D. von Schweinitz, of Bethlehem, 

 Pennsylvania. 



In the same year (1834), appeared a Catalogue of Plants in 

 the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, by Prof. J. Bachman ; 

 An Enumeration of Plants growing spontaneously around Wil- 

 mington, North Carolina, by that careful observer and sagacious 

 botanist, the Rev. M. A. Curtis ;* A Monograph of North Ame- 

 rican Rhynchosporce, by Dr. A. Gray ; and two exceedingly in- 

 teresting volumes of Labelled Specimens of American Graminece 

 and Cyperacea?, by the last-named gentleman. 



In 1835, an excellent Synopsis of the Flora of the Western 

 States, was published at Cincinnati, Ohio, by Prof. John L. Rid- 

 dell, of that city ; and in the same year, appeared a Catalogue 

 of the Plants of Massachusetts, by Prof. Edward Hitchcock. 



In 1836, were published, at New York, Elements of Botany, by 

 Dr. A. Gray ; and, in the Annals of the New York Lyceum, an 

 excellent Monograph of North American Cyperacece, by Prof. 

 John Torrey. 



In 1837, the following works appeared : A Catalogue of Plants, 



* This Enumeration, by the Rev. Mr. Cuetis, was published in the first volume 

 of the Boston Journal of Natural History, a valuable repository of papers and 

 communications, which began to be published in 1884, by the Boston Society of 

 Naturalists. 



