300 Bibliography. 



tern ; and throughout the whole of his botanical career, Professor End- 

 licher has paid great attention to the systematic arrangement of the 

 vegetable kingdom. In 1836, he published his great work entitled 



4 Genera Plantarum, secundum ordines naturales disposita.' At the 

 time when it was published, it was undoubtedly the most important 

 work on systematic botany since the ; Genera Plantarum 9 of Jussieu. 

 In this work he proposed an arrangement of the vegetable kingdom 

 which has had a considerable influence on more recent systems. He 

 also published several works containing descriptions and drawings of 

 new plants. Those brought from Peru and Mexico by Poeppig were 

 described by Endlicher. In 1837, he commenced the publication of a 

 work containing descriptions and drawings of new species of plants, 

 under the title, Araxra Boxavma. The drawings for this work were 

 from the pencil of the celebrated Ferdinand Bauer ; who died at Vienna 

 in 1826, — and who, like his brother Francis in England, left behind 

 him a great number of drawings of plants such as had never been 

 equaled during their lives and have scarcely been surpassed since. 

 Endlicher published a Flora of Norfolk Island in 1833; consisting of 

 descriptions of plants which were collected by Ferdinand Bauer in 

 1804 and 1805. In addition to these systematic works, in conjunction 

 with Unger, Endlicher published a work on structural and physiological 

 botany. This work is interesting as containing a statement of its 

 author's views of structure upon which his systematic arrangements are 

 founded : — but it was not in this department that Endlicher obtained 

 his reputation us a botanist. It was reported that the death of Endlicher 

 was caused by his own hand : — but this appears to be untrue. 



V. Bibliography. 



1. De CandolWs Prodromus Regni Vegetabilis : Pars XIII, Sec- 

 tio Posterior. Paris, pp. 468. May 5, 1849. — This half volume has 

 appeared very nearly at the date announced for it, last autumn, when 

 the twelfth was published. It is the second part, anticipating the first, 

 which is to contain the Solanacece and the Plant aginacece, two families 

 which will finish the Monopetalous series, as this begins the Apetalse or 

 Monochlamydece. It comprises the Phytolaccacea, Salsolacea (Cheno- 

 podeae), Basellacece, and Amarantacece, elaborated by Moquin-Tandon 

 of Toulouse, and the Nyctaginacece, by Prof. Choisy of Geneva. Of 

 PhytolaccacecB we have, in the United States, only Petivera alliacea 

 which grows in Florida (probably not in " Carolina"), Rivina Irevis, 

 (to which we are surprised to see R. portulacoides, Null., joined,) and 

 Phytolacca decandra, which last is now so widely dispersed over the 

 world that its native country is uncertain. 



The large family of Salsolacea comprises 72 genera, disposed nearly 

 in Tandon Chenopodearum Enumeratio, in two suborders and 

 seven tribes, most of which are further divided into subtribes. Our 

 genera of the CyclolobejE (those with the embryo nearly annular) are 

 Aphanisma, Nutt., a Californian plant discovered by Mr* Nuttall ; Te- 

 loxys aristata, which is credited to us because Linnaeus referred his 

 Chenopodium Virginicum to C. aristatum, but it is doubtful if we pos- 

 sess the genus ; Cycloloma (Salsola platyphy 11a, Michx.) ; Chenopodium, 



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