CONTENTS. 



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Introduction i 



Lindley's Natural System of Botany 1 



De Candolle's Prodromus 15 



Endlicher's Genera Plantarum . . . . , . . 33 



Harvey's South African Plants 36 



Siebold's Flora of Japan 37 



Moquin-Tandon's Vegetable Monstrosities . . . . .40 

 Agassiz's Zoological Nomenclator . . . . . . . 41 



Von Mohl's Vegetable Cell 51 



Ward's Growth of Plants in Glazed Cases 59 



Hooker and Thomson's Indian Flora 62 



De Candolle's Geographie Botanique 67 



Henfrey's Botany 72 



Naudin on the Genus Cucurbita 83 



Weddell's Monograph of Urticace^ 87 



Radlkofer's Fecundation in the Vegetable Kingdom . . 91 



Hooker on the Balanophore^ 94 



boussingault on the influence of nitrates .... 100 



Bentham's Hand-Book of the British Flora 104 



Vilmorin's Improvement of Cultivated Plants .... 109 



Engelmann on the Buffalo Grass 112 



Curtis' s Trees of North Carolina 115 



Bentham's Flora of Hong Kong 117 



Hooker's Distribution of Arctic Plants 122 



De Candolle on the Variation and Distribution of Species . 130 



Hooker on Welwitschia 151 



Darwin's Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants . . . 158 



Watson's Botany of the 40th Parallel 180 



Decaisne's Monograph, of the Genus Pyrus 186 



Engelmann's Notes on the Genus Yucca 196 



Ruskin's Proserpina 199 



Emerson's Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts .... 204 

 Darwin's Insectivorous Plants 206 



