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bridge, Mass., published an elementary treatise, under the title of 

 the Botanical Text Booh, of which a second edition appeared in 

 1845. This is unquestionably the best introduction to a scientific 

 knowledge of the vegetable kingdom, which has yet appeared in 

 our country, if not in our language. 



In 1843, was published A Flora of the State of Neiv York, in 

 two ponderous quarto volumes, and embellished with one hundred 

 and sixty-one coloured plates. This superb work was undertaken 

 by Professor Johx Torrey, in pursuance of an act for a geological 

 survey of New York, passed in 1836, which made provision for a 

 full account of the natural history of the state ; and it is but 

 justice to say, that it has been completed in a faithful and mas- 

 terly manner.* 



In the same year, the same distinguished botanist prepared a 

 highly interesting catalogue of pZawfe, collected during a journey 

 across the Rocky Mountains, by that intelligent and enterprising 

 traveller, Lieutenant (since Colonel) J. C. Fremont. 



Mr. Edward Tuckermax, Jr., then of Schenectady, New 

 York, also published an ingenious methodical enumeration of our 

 Carices. 



In 1844, the Botanical Society of Wilmington, Delaware, pub- 

 lished a Catalogue of the Phcenogamous and Filicoid Plaits of 

 Newcastle County, which was subsequently much enlarged. 



In the same year a Catalogue of Rhode Island Plants, arranged 

 by S. T. Olxey, Esq., was published by the Providence Franklin 

 Society, of that state, with additions the ensuing year. 



In 1845, were published, Contributioiis towards a Catalogue of 

 Trees and Shrubs of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, by Pro- 

 fessor Spexcer F. Baird, of Carlisle ; a Catalogue of Plants in 

 Western New York, by H. P. Sartwell, M.D., of Penyan, Yates 

 County; A Catalogue of Plants of Lewis County, Ohio, by 

 Fraxklix B. Hough, A.B. ; A List of Plants growing in the 

 vicinity of Quincy, Florida, by A. W. Chapman, M.D., in the 

 Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery ; and in the Boston 

 Journal of Natural History, An Enumeration of F. Lindlieimers 



* The style in -which "the Empire State" has illustrated every department of 

 her natural history, is calculated to make a true Pennsylvania^, blush for the 

 contrast exhibited by the authorities of his own state ; who, in the first place, 

 meanly restricted the survey of her glorious domain to a mere geological examina- 

 tion; and now, when it is done, have not spirit enough to give to the public the 

 benefit, even of that ! 



