j & Botanical Writings of Rafinesque. 237 
,A pamphlet (?) entitled “ Neocloris or New Species of Western 
America,” is mentioned by Rafinesque, but neither the place nor 
form of publication are given: we are wholly unacquainted 
with it. fi 
A 1826. “ School of Flora, with figures, Philadelphia.” 
1828. “ Neophyton Botanicon, or New Plants of North Amer- 
fo ica.”"—Medical Flora of the United States, vol. 1, 12mo. Phila- 
/ delphia. The second volume was published in 1830. It is illus- 
trated with rather rude wood cuts, and contains much information 
respecting the plants employed in popular medicine. 
830. American Manual of the Grape Vines, and the Art of 
Making Wine. Philadelphia: a pamphlet of sixty-four pages, 
/  \2mo.—He describes sixty-two species of grape, of which forty 
are Natives of the United States! One hundred varieties of our 
species are characterized !—“ Botanical Letters to De Candolle.” 
: A gradual deterioration will be observed in Rafinesque’s botan- 
teal writings from 1819* to about 1830, when the passion for es- 
tablishing new genera and species, appears to have become a com- 
ete monomania. This is the most charitable supposition we 
can entertain, and is confirmed by the opinions of those who 
‘ew him best. Hitherto we have been particular in the enu- 
ineration of his scattered productions, in order to facilitate the la- 
bors of those who may be disposed to search through bushels of 
chaff for the grain or two of wheat they perchance contain. 
What consideration they may deserve, let succeeding botanists 
determine ; but we cannot hesitate to assert that none whatever 
8 due to his subsequent works. These, like many of the preced- 
Ing, are little known; but we shall continue our enumeration, 
and future writers can correct our opinion wherever they think 
We have done the author injustice. 
832. “The American Florist : thirty-six figures, 12mo. 
Philadelphia.” With this we are unacquainted.— Atlantic Jour- 
nal, and Friend of Knowledge. A periodical of which eight 
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~ *It was in this year (1819) that I became alarmed by a flood of communications, 
‘Mnouncing new discoveries by C. 8. Rafinesque, and being warned, both at ho 
and abroad, against his claims, I returned hima large bundle of memoirs, prepar 
With his beautiful and exact chirography, and in the neatest form of scientific pa- _ 
€ —Sev. D 
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