VENTENAT. 



The Genera Plant arum of Jussieu, with all his 

 characters and remarks, have been translated into 

 French by Ventenat, who has interspersed several 

 additional observations. His work makes four octavo 

 volumes, the first containing a dictionary of Botany. 

 The last, besides a general analytical table, is enriched 

 with plates of the fructification of every one of Jus- 

 sieu's Orders, drawn by the masterly hand of Re- 

 doute\ For such a purpose, however, the very best 

 figures are hardly sufficient. Nothing is so instructive 

 as Nature herself; and the student who has made 

 sufficient progress in Botany to understand the fore- 

 going explanations of Jussieu's System, will be at no 

 loss to procure examples, of the greater part of his 

 Orders at least, by the dissection and comparison of 

 whose structure he will gradually become familiarized 

 with the subject, though it's details are inexhaustible. 



