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ted many genera and synonyms. 



Meantime my own Herbarium and Autikon 

 contains about 1200 New Genera and New Spe- 

 cies discovered and collected since 1802, but 

 chiefly from 1815 to this time ; and whereof but 

 a small part has been published or indicated as 

 yet. It is therefore to these that I must apply 

 myself at first in order to make known my dis- 

 coveries and labors with the hidden wealth of 

 our Flora. I shall however at the same time 

 give many discriminating monographs of Fam- 

 ilies and Genera, to elucidate their critical and 

 correct knowledge. 



The New trees and Shrubs of North Ameri- 

 ica which I have discovered and ascertained 

 might form a separate volume ; but I may add 

 them if practicable. As I have stated already, 

 arrangement is of httle consequence now^ in 

 botanical works ; since every botanist changes 

 the serial order, by misunderstanding the real 

 steps of nature in organized vegetables. If I 

 was to offer a very elaborate series of real cor- 

 rected natural orders as I did in 1815, they 

 would be deemed improper by those who now be- 

 gin to dabble in them, and give us jumbled fam- 

 ilies without peculiar essential characters, and 

 without proper names, as they constantly go 

 on to do the same with Genera and Species. 



I seldom was able to publish a botanical work 

 exactly as I wished in the proper style and plan. 

 I can only collect and afford new materials, ob- 

 servations and criticisms for better times or 

 moods. Yet my actual labor, is as much a Flo- 

 ra as that of Michaux or Pursh, since it includes 

 more new discoveries, and may only pass over 

 the wellknown and settled plants. But whene- 

 ver doubts or disparities occur, they will deserve 



