DEVELOPMENT OF BOTANY SINCE 1818 441 



to insert very voluminous details of daily floral occur- 

 rence." It is convenient to consider by themselves some 

 of the botanical contributions published in the first series 

 of volumes of the Journal during a period of twenty 

 years, the period before Asa Gray became actively and 

 constantly associated with the Journal. 



In systematic and geographical botany one finds com- 

 munications from Douglass and Torrey (4, 56, 1822) 

 on the plants of what was then the North-west ; Lewis C. 

 Beck (10, 257, 1826; 11, 167, 1826; 14, 112, 1828) contri- 

 buted valuable papers on the botany of Illinois and Mis- 

 souri ; there is a literal translation by Dr. Ruschenberger 

 (19, 63, 299, 1831; 20, 248, 1831; 23, 78, 250, 1833) of a 

 very long list of th6 plants of Chili ; Wolle and Huebener 

 (37, 310, 1839) gave an annotated catalogue of botanical 

 specimens collected in Pennsylvania; Tuckerman (45, 27, 

 1843) presented communications in regard to numerous 

 species which he had examined critically; Darlington 

 (41, 365, 1841) published his lecture on grasses ; Asa Gray 

 (40, 1, 1841) gave an instructive account of European 

 herbaria visited by him, and he contributed also a charm- 

 ing account (42, 1, 1842) of a botanical journey to the 

 mountains of North Carolina. The most extensive series 

 of botanical communication at this time was the Caricog- 

 raphy by Professor Dewey of Williams College, pre- 

 sented in many numbers of the Journal ; the first of these 

 in 7, pp. 264-278, 1824. There were also descriptions of 

 certain new genera, and species, and critical studies in 

 synonyms. 



Cryptogamic botany is represented in the first series 

 of volumes of the Journal by L. C. Beck's (15, 287, 1829) 

 study of ferns and mosses, by Bailey's (35, 113, 1839) 

 histology of the vascular system of ferns, by Fries' Sys- 

 tema mycologicum (12, 235, 1829), and by De Schweinitz 

 (9, 397, 1825) and Halsey, who had in hand a cryptogamic 

 manual. There are two important papers by Alexander 

 Braun, translated by Dr. George Engelmann, one on the 

 Equisetaceae of North America (46, 81, 1844) and the 

 other on the Characeae (46, 92, 1844). 



Vegetable paleontology had begun to attract attention 

 in many places in this country, and therefore the trans- 

 lated contributions by Brongniart on fossil plants were 



