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roots. Birds versus reptiles. Mammalia, new genera, Hordwell 

 Cliff. Bones of Loch Gur. Pentacrinus gracilis, &c. Literary In- 



telligence. 



Quarterly 



made frequent citations, and it is replete with valuable matter. The 

 London Geological Journal of Mr. Charlesworth is not a rival, but pur- 

 suing an independent course avowedly without submission to the author- 

 ity of names will, we trust, promote the interests of science ;— the 

 editor will avoid, as we hope, all unnecessary personalities, while he 

 pursues fearlessly the course which truth and candor and fidelity ought 



to prescribe to every editor. 



2. Darlington's Agricultural Botany.— This work is acknowledged 

 to have been much needed. It brings science into agreeable and intel- 

 ligible union with that art, in which the great proportion of our people 

 are engaged, and which supplies a large proportion of our wants. The 

 peculiar and important relations of botany to medicine, the vegetable 

 kingdom furnishing perhaps two-thirds or three-fourths of the articles of 

 the materia medica, have often been well and fully treated. In agricul- 

 ture there is a very much closer dependence on botany. It would be 

 a great public benefit if some patron of the useful arts would distrib- 

 ute Dr. Darlington's work, gratuitously, by thousands, to the farmers 

 of the author's native state, as a certain work from over the water was 

 distributed through an adjoining state, for the benefit of agriculture.* 

 It should be made a class book in our schools, and children throughout 

 this Union should be taught to rival their neighbors, in having their own 

 regarded as the garden state, rather than to pride themselves on dis- 

 tinctions which are marks of political strife and love of power. 



The work is dedicated to the young farmers of the United States, for 

 reasons which the ■ Preface satisfactorily explains; and we find in the 

 same place an important suggestion, that a work expressly devoted to 

 the Botany of the Arts, is yet to be supplied. The writer s favorite 

 authorities are Torrey, Gray, and De Candolle. A glossary is fur- 

 nished, rendering into plain English all the botanical terms usee ; there 

 is also an explanation of the abbreviations and references. VI e have 

 moreover in a synopsis the Linnaean arrangement of the genera treated 

 of, followed by a summary of the groups and orders noticed in the work, 

 after the plan of Gray : the first series, that of flowering plants, occu- 

 pies in the text 236 pages, and the second, that of nowerless plants, but 

 10 pages. Following a scientific description of each plan , its origin, 

 history, &c, are the author's own observations, showing its relation to 



agriculture. , , P n 



The plants treated of are classified in tables under the following 

 heads ; which give at a glance, an idea of the parucular subjects and 



their importance : _ . e nT „ 



1. Plants yielding esculent Roots, Herbage, or Friuts, for Man. 



2. Plants yielding Food exclusively or chiefly for Domestic Animals. 



3. Plants yielding Condiments or Drinks. 

 " 4. Medicinal plants. 



* Johnsons Agricultural Chemistry, in New York. 



