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and by Thomas Nuttall, Genera of North American Plants, 

 Philadelphia 1818, hi two volumes. S'Lcphen Elliot exa- 

 mined the southern states ; Botany of the Southern States, 

 Carolina and Georgia, Charlestown 1817, 1818. Some con- 

 tributions were furnished by Henry Muhlen})ero-, clergyman 

 at Lancaster, who died 1816, Catalogus Plantarmn Americfe 

 Septentrionalis, Lancaster 1813, octavo ; by Const. Schmal/ 

 Rafinesque, Florula Ludoviciana, translated from the French 

 of C. C. Robin, New York 1817, octavo; and by C. W. Ed- 

 dy and J. Torrey ; (A Catalogue of Plants growing sponta- 

 neously within thirty miles of the city of New York, Albany 

 1819, octavo.) 



Olaus Swarz, professor at Stockholm, who died 1817, des- 

 cribed in a very complete manner the West Indian Hora in 

 his Flora India? Occidentahs, Erlangen 1797 to 180G, in 

 three volumes. 



The Spaniards Hippolytus Ruiz and Joseph Pavon, have 

 made us acquainted with a multitude of new genera and spe- 

 cies belonging to Peru and Chili, in their Flora Peruviana 

 et Chilensis, Madrid 1798, in folio. But Alexander von 

 Humboldt has gained immortal honour by his numerous bo- 

 tanical discoveries, the fruits of his travels through Spanish 

 America. He published them along with Amatus Bonpland, 

 in his Plantes Equinoxiales, and with Charles Kimth in his 

 Nova Genera et Species Plantar um, Paris 1815, in three vo- 

 lumes. 



Lewis Nee, the companion of Malaspina, examined with 

 much care the South Sea Islands. Antony Joseph Cava- 

 nilles, professor at Madrid, who died 1804, availed himself of 

 his treasures, and described them in his Icones et Descrij)- 

 tiones Plantarum, Madrid 1791 to 1799, in six volumes. Jiu 

 cob Julius la Billardiere published an excellent Flora of New 

 Holland, under the title Novae Hollandia^ Plantarum Speci- 

 men, Paris 1804, in folio, with ^65 copperplates. A\'e owe 

 the greatest obligations to the ingenious Robert Bi'own, whose 

 Prodromus Florae Novfe HollandicT, London 1810, very rare, 

 and his General Remarks on the Botany ol" Terra Aust rails, 

 London 1814, are uncommonly valuable. 



