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this subject, for persons unacquainted with 

 Latin. In this volume, therefore, the 

 plants of four of the Linnaean classes 

 Gynandria, Monoecia, Dicecia, and Poly- 

 gamia, are distributed among the pre- 

 ceding classes, according to the number 

 of their stamens. The English Flora of 

 Sir James Edward Smith furnishes a sys- 

 tematical account of all our native plants, 

 according to the original method of Lin- 

 naeus. 



What Miss Edgeworth has said of Che- 

 mistry may with equal truth be applied to 

 Botany, and may serve to recommend the 

 study of it, as a branch of general educa- 

 tion : "It is not a science of parade, it 

 affords occupation and infinite variety, it 

 demands no bodily strength, it can be pur- 

 sued in retirement ; there is no danger 

 of its inflaming the imagination, because 

 the mind is intent upon realities. The 

 knowledge that is acquired is exact ; and 



