68 ADVENTINA. 



place and season : smaller, but flowers larger, 

 Autumnal, annual, 6 to 10 inches high, hardly 

 ramose or nearly simple. Messrs. Carr owners 

 of Bartram's garden cannot account for the 

 spontaneous production of these plants and sev- 

 eral others in their garden. 



Figure Autikon 6. Icon. n. sp. 6. 



I must conclude here this beginning and mo- 

 del of a proper LEXICON of our N. American 

 Flora. To continue the whole Flora even in 

 this concise form, would fill several large vol- 

 umes. This specimen contains about 40 arti- 

 cles and Genera, whereof many are new, and 

 includes nearly 150 species, whereof many were 

 undescribed. 



North America, excluding the Mexican States 

 contains probably 2000 Genera and 10,000 spe- 

 cies of trees and plants, exclusive of the Cel- 

 lular or Cryptogamic plants ; but including 

 Palms, Grasses and Ferns, Shrubs and Vines . . 

 Our Botanists know or admit of hardly more 

 than one half. Botanical Works are filled with 

 plants neglected by them, because rare and lit- 

 tle known. Our Herbals or Botanical Collec- 

 tions contain a crowd of plants as yet unnoticed 

 and undescribed. Baldwin's Herbarium has 

 been a Botanical mine for 20 years past, for Elli- 

 ot, Nuttal, Torrey, &c. and will continue so a 

 long while. Nuttal will soon increase the Ore- 

 gon Western Botany by perhaps 1000 N. Sp. 

 Whoever applies to the proper study of a single 

 Genus or family increases or doubles our know- 

 ledge of it. Torrey has lately increased our 

 CYPERACEA alone to 25 genera and 326 species 

 and he has not exhausted this tribe ; but omit- 



