TM lIlSTOliY OF BOTANY. 



Konig, and the West Indies, by Pflug and Rohr, in his Sym- 

 bolis Botanicis, vol. 1—3, Copenhagen, 1790 to 1794, foHo. 



Since the Russian dominion extended itself over Caucasus, 

 this very important country lias been examined by several 

 excellent natural historians, and, in regard to its botany, it 

 has been most carefully investigated by Baron Frederick 

 Mai'shall von Biebeistein. His excellent Flora Taurico-Cau- 

 casica appeared in two vokmics, at Cracow, 1808. 



The dominion of England in the East Indies gave new life 

 to the zeal for the search of plants in these regions. The 

 most important work on the subject was that published by 

 WilHam Roxburgh in his Plants of the Coast of Coromandel, 

 London 1795, three volumes. The Flora Cochin-Chinensis 

 of John de Loureiro, a Portuguese missionary, which was 

 published at Lisbon 1790, is also very valuable. With re- 

 spect to Japan, we have the admirable Flora Japonica of 

 Charles Peter Thunberg, published at Leipzig 1784, with 

 forty copperplates. 



In regard to Africa, the learned companions of the expedi- 

 tion of Bonaparte to Egypt, in the year 1798, have enriched 

 the science with many important contributions, in the magni- 

 ficent work entitled Description de TEgypt, Paris 18LS. A 

 compend of this was published by A. R. Delile, under the 

 title of INIemoires Botaniques, Paris 1813. On the Flora of 

 northern Africa, appeared a valuable work of Renatus Des- 

 fontaines, professor at Paris, Flora Atlantica, Paris 1800, in 

 two volumes, with 261 copperplates. One part of the coast 

 of Guinea was examined by A. M. F. J. Palisot-Beauvois, 

 Flore d'Oware et de Benin, Paris 1804 to 1810, in folio. 

 Charles Peter Thunberg described the rich Flora of southern 

 Africa in his Prodromus Plantarum Capensium, Upsal 1794 

 and 1800; and in the Flora Capensis, Upsal 1813. iVIasca- 

 ren's Land and Madagascar were examined by Aubert du 

 Petit-Thouars, Histoire des Vegetaux recueillis dans les Isles 

 Australes d'Afrique, P^ris 1806, in quarto. 



We possess excellent Floras of North America by Andrew 

 jNIlchaux, Flora Boreali-Americana, Paris 1803 ; by Frede- 

 ric Pursh, Flora Americjje Septentrionallcj, I^ondon 1814; 



