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238 Botanical Writings of Rafinesque. ee ™ 
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numbers appeared in 1832 and 1833; published at Philadelphia. 
The whole forms an 8vo. volume of 212 pages. Its contents 
are miscellaneous, but there are several botanical articles, in 
which, of course, new genera and species are described. In one 
of these articles, Rafinesque takes up Dr. 'Torrey’s account of the 
plants collected by Dr. James, in Long’s expedition to the Rocky 
Mountains, (published in the second volume of the Annals of the 
Lyceum of Natural History, New York,) upon which he creates 
twenty new genera! In another, he describes two new genera of 
Umbellifere called Streblanthus and Orimaria ;_one of whichis 
an Eryngium falsely characterized ; the other, a Bupleurum 
(which had doubtless escaped from some garden ) in an undevelop- 
ed state, which we happen to know Rafinesque had mistaken for 
a grass, and described as a new genus of that family ; but, be- 
ing told it was a Bupleurum, he has accordingly published it as 
anew genus “near to Bupleurum.” “Ris 
1833. Herbarium Rafinesquianum. Loose sheets, printed in 
24mo., we believe at different times, and reaching to about eighty 
pages. The first partis chiefly a reprint from the last number of 
his Atlantic Journal; the second contains a list of his botanical 
works, and account of plants offered for sale, a monograph of 
Samolus increased to ten species, of the American species of Cyp- 
ripedium increased to ten species, of Spiranthes, ten species, and 
of Jeffersonia and Podophyllum, each increased to four species. 
The remainder is of the same character. 32 
1836. Flora Telluriana: four parts; each of about one hun- 
dred pages, 8vo.; the fourth part, or supplement published in 
1838.—New Flora and Botany of North America ; being @ SUp- 
plemental flora to the various botanical works of M ichauz, Muh- 
lenberg, Pursh, §c. §c. §°c. Philadelphia: printed for the author 
and publisher. Four parts are mentioned; but we have see? 
only three, of about one hundred pages each. 
‘The object proposed in the Flora Telluriana is general gen 
eric reform; and the author informs his readers, that “ although 
the attempt may astonish or perplex some timid botanists,” be in- 
. ends to establish about one thousand totally new genera, includ- 
“Img some of those he had formerly published :* it is needless to 
add, that in this and the New Flora of North America, together, 
he has nearly fulfilled his promise. According to his principles, 
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* Flora Telluriana, Introduction, p. 15. 
