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Dr. Lettsom : and the Tobacco-plant, by Mr. Ta- 

 tham: not to particularise a number of valuable 

 descriptions, almost countless, of new and curious 

 plants to be found in the memoirs of the Lin- 

 lucan Socic/j/ of Great Britain, and other asso- 

 ciations of a similar kind in dificrent parts of 

 Europe. To these may be added, not as publica- 

 tions of the fnst class, but as doing honour to the 

 Infancy of botanical science in America, the na- 

 tural history of the Pcrsimmon-trec, by Dr. Wood- 

 house ; of the Tobacco-plant, by Dr. Brailsford ; of 

 the Phytolacca, or Poke, by Dr. Schultz -, of the 

 Slramoniiun, or James-Tow fi-need, by Dr. Cooper; 

 and of the Sumach, by Dr. liorsefield, all of the 

 United States*. 



But beside these botanical writers, who have 

 published useful accounts of particular classes, or- 

 <k^rs, genera, or species, of plants, the last century 

 has abounded beyond all former example with 

 works on the plants of particular countries, or 

 smaller districts. The plants of Great Britain 

 have been either collected, or ably described, du- 

 ring this period, by Dillenius, Alston, Miller, 

 Blackstone, Hudson, Lightfoot, llobson, Curtis, 

 Withering, Berkenhout, and Smith. To this list 

 of writers on English botany, may be added pro- 

 fessor Martyn, w ho has written ably on the sub- 

 ject ; Mr. Relhan, who has given a valuable Flora 

 Cantabrigiensis ; !Mr. Abbot, whose Flora Bed/or- 

 diensis is also a useful work- and Mr. Sowerby, 

 whose English Botany, and English Fungi, are wor- 

 thy of much commendation. Hill and Wilson have 



* See Additional Noics^(Zj. 



