5 1 6 Additional Notes. 



and if we may judge of the subsequent harvest by the first 

 fruits, it will be rich indeed. This work is illustrated by 

 thirty plates, and discovers an extent of learning, an acute- 

 ness and vigour of mind, and an elegance of taste, highly 

 honourable to the author. Dr. Barton adopts the Sexual 

 SystoUy and a great part of the Linnaean nomenclature; but 

 is bv no means a servile follower of that illustrious Naturalist. 

 He thinks the sexual system would suffer no injury by the 

 total abolition of the eleventh class (Dodecandria); and 

 tliough he dissents from the proposed alteration by Thun- 

 BEKG, yet he thinks, with Dr. J. E. Smith, that the twenty- 

 third Linnsan class fPolyganiiaJ is unnatural, variable, and 

 obscure, and ought to be entirely suppressed. 



Of the thirty plates which accompany this work, twenty- 

 eight have claims to more or less originality, and many of 

 them are completely original. They are well executed ; and 

 most of the subjects selected for delineation are remarkable 

 for their rarity, their beauty, or some other peculiarity of 

 character. Every part of this work discovers that the author 

 has not been contented with compiling the facts and opinions 

 of his predecessors, but that he has accurately observed and 

 thought for himself. He will, therefore, no doubt, be pro- 

 nounced, by the best judges, to have presented his country- 

 men with the most comprehensive, instructive, and satisfac- 

 tory work of this kind in the English language. 



Br, George Forster. p. 14-3. 



The Botany of the South-Sea Islands has also received new 

 light from the Florula of those islands, published by Dr. 

 George Forster, son of Dr. John R. Forster, author 

 of the Nova Genera Plantar um. 



Delineations of Plants, p. 144. 



Among the numerous and important services rendered to 

 botanical science, by means of accurate and elegant draxv- 

 ings, and other modes of exhibiting plants, the following 

 more particularly deserve notice. 



It is a singular fact that Physic is indebted for the most 

 complete set of figures of the medicinal plants to the genius 

 and industry of Mrs. Elizabeth Blackwell, a native ot 



