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nesque's Medical Flora (I have quoted largely from this latter work, 

 though many of the virtues of the plants described by him depend 

 rather too much upon the Indians to be considered absolutely esta- 

 blished ; he was, however, ranked among our most distinguished 

 naturalists), the New York Medical Repository, the New York 

 Medical and Physical JournaJ, the New York Medical Magazine, 

 the New York Medical and Surgical Journal (and particularly to a 

 most able article in it, upon the Medical Botany of the State of 

 New York, by Dr. Charles A. Lee, the editor), the Lyceum of Na- 

 tural History of New York, and the writings of Mitchell, Torrey, 

 Gray, Emmons, Dewey, Eaton, &c. ; the New England Journal of 

 Medicine and Surgery, the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 

 the works of Bigelow, Peck, and the indefatigable and learned Mar- 

 tyn Paine, Nuttall, and others, Sumner, Ives, Comstock, Tully, &c. 

 Each of the above journals and authorities, and many others to 

 which time will not allow me to allude, contain numerous papers of 

 much value, upon the medical properties of individual plants. Mrs. 

 Lincoln's Botany, and the able and elaborate reports upon the sub- 

 jects of natural history, to the Legislatures of the States of New 

 York and Massachusetts. To the Professors Dewey and Hitchcock 

 I am indebted, in a great measure, for my catalogue of the names 

 of the indigenous medical plants of this State ; and also to Bigelow, 

 in his last edition of the Plants of Boston. To these latter works, 

 to Gray and Torrey, to Lindley, Eaton, and many other standard 

 writers on botany, some one or more of which must be in the pos- 

 session of all my readers, I refer for particular descriptions of the 

 plants which I have noticed. As a minute account of them would 

 enlarge this report to the size of a volume, I merely refer the plants 

 of which I speak to the natural orders and the sexual system. 



Of Pharmacopoeias, Dispensatories, Materia Medicas, and works 

 upon Natural History, I have examined the ancient " Secretes of 

 Alexis" in black letter, published in 1559 ; Culpepper's Herbal, 

 published in 1653, containing coloured plates of more than four 

 hundred plants ; Salmon's Dispensatory, 8th edition, 1716 ; Brooks' 

 Natural History, and his Practice of Physic; Quincy's Dispensatory; 

 the Edinburgh and London Dispensatories ; the Eclectic Dispen- 

 satory ; Pereira and Thomson's Materia Medicas and Dispensatories; 

 Wood and Bache's Dispensatory ; the Pharmacopoeia of the United 

 States, and Sequel of the Massachusetts Medical Society; New 

 York Hospital, &c. ; Paris's Pharmacologie; Dunglison's New Reme- 

 dies ; Smith's Physiology of Plants ; the invaluable work of Lindley 



