334 Mtices of new and beautiful Plants 



" The work may be ordered of the publishers, G. & C. Car- 

 vill & Co. New York; Carey & Hart, Philadelphia; and Little, 

 Brown &Co., Boston: or subscribers may send their names di- 

 rectly to the authors. Price ^1.50 for each part of 184 pages, 

 or $4.50 per volume: payable on delivery." 



To increase as much as possible the value of the work, it is 

 the intention of Dr. Gray to visit Europe the ensuing autumn or 

 winter, and he will embrace the opportunity of examining herba- 

 ums, libraries and living plants. 



Part II. will be issued during the present month, and the oth- 

 ers will follow in succession as rapidly as circumstances will ad- 

 rait, without unnecessary haste. Botanists who possess any rare 

 species of North American plants, particularly such as have not 

 been described in any existing work, or any interesting informa- 

 tion in relation to those already known, are invited to communicate 

 them to the authors, for insertion in the forth-coming volumes of 

 the Flora. 



We trust that the friends of the science will come forward and 

 sustain this arduous undertaking. The work is published at a 

 low price, considering the expense always attendant upon the 

 getting up of scientific works of the kind. Prospectuses may be 

 found at the bookstores of the publishers. We have also one in 

 our possession, to which we should be glad to receive the names 

 of our friends as subscribers. 



Dr. Gray has been appointed Professor of Botany in the new 

 university of Michigan. An extensive botanic garden is to be 

 connected with the institution. We hope it will be so in some- 

 thing more than the name. In the vicinity of Boston, attached 

 to Harvard College, there is a garden under this name, which, 

 for aught we have seen there, might as well be called any thing 

 but a garden devoted to the study of botany. It would be highly 

 creditable to this young state to be the first to set the example. 

 With Dr. Gray at its head, there is no doubt of its success. 



The Exploring Expedition set sail on Saturday, the 11th of 

 August, from Hampton Roads. We have not learnt who has 

 been appointed to fill the vacancy in the scientific corps, occa- 

 sioned by the resignation of Dr. Gray, who remains behind. No 

 other resignation has taken place since the corps were first ap- 

 pointed, that we are aware of. 



Rafanesque''s Botanical Works. — Professor Rafanesque has 

 published several works on botany, the two last of which are the 

 Flora Telluriana, or synoptical mantissa of two thousand new or 

 corrected families, genera and species of plants, from all parts of 

 the earth, the first work ever published in America upon the 

 botany of both hemispheres; and the JVcic Flo7'a and Botany of 

 JSTorth America., supplemental to all Floras, containing the gene- 

 ra and species omitted or mistaken by Pursh, Michaux, Torrey, 



