Botanical Writings of Rafinesque. 241 
We have only seen a few sheets of this miscellaneous work; 
. which purports to be the commencement of a periodical or occa- 
sional publication. The first article is a general classification of 
the sciences comprised in “ Cosmosy, or Natural History.” Here 
we meet with such names as the “following branches of Astro- 
graphy, viz. “ Astrosy, Heliosy, Tholosy, Selenosy, Cometosy, 
Torosy, &c., applying to the stars, the sun, the planets, the 
moons, the comets, and the various Tixomes (other bodies) of 
the skies ;” as well as Aimology, the science of the atmos- 
phere,” with its branches, such as “ Yetology, of rains; Phosolo- 
gy, of luminous meteors ee not to mention Dimnology, Pota- 
mology, Stromology, Spilology, Volcanology, Stocology, E'thero- 
logy, Gazolozy, Gazomy, Urromy, Flogomy, “ the flogomes, or 
burning substances,” Campsology, &c., &c., &c. ‘This reminds 
us of a paper which Rafinesque many years ago sent to the editor of 
a well known scientific journal, describing and characterizing, in 
natural history style, twelve new species of thunder and lightning ! 
But the only botanical article we have seen is a “ Revision of the 
Carevides,” in which the simple genus Carer is divided into two 
sub-families and eighteen genera: and we observe that the same 
Species, under different names, are frequently cited as the types 
of two or three different genera. With this, so far as we can as- 
certain, the last botanical article of this indefatigable writer, we 
close our remarks, which many readers will probably consider un- 
teisonably prolix.* 
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