oa ass. 
_ &e., are given in full. Upon examination we 
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person. truly fond of his subject, and who has evidently devoted no little 
attention to it. The wood-cuts are pretty good, the typography and 
paper are handsome, and the volume contains much well selected and 
some original popular matter. The author leaves us in much doubt as 
to the extent of the field he means to embrace. Though we find no 
Statement restricting the general title ‘‘ Trees of America,” we pre- 
‘sume, on the whole, that those of the United States only are intended 
which may be termed par excellence American, in the same way that 
the continental title is applied to our citizens abroad. What is meant 
by the « foreign trees of America,” is not so clear, since Mr. Browne 
has omitted many of the common hardy exotics cultivated among us, 
while he has given such as the Pistachio-nut, the Paraguay Tea, the 
Prunus avium, of Europe, (which stands in his book under the name 
of “ The Wild Cherry tree,” to mislead the general reader,) the Laurus 
nobilis, or True Laurel, and lastly the Camphor-iree, which is surely 
“foreign” enough. On the other hand,the greater part of our Thorns, our 
wild Crab-trees, the Southern Prickley Ash, two of our Rhododendrons, 
and a large portion of our commonest taller shrubs are entirely unno- 
ticed ; not that shrubs do not fall within the range of the work; for the 
low Canadian Barberry, the Zscul tachy d the Ilex vomitoria, 
find the book closes ab- 
ruptly. with the Elm family ; the: Amentaceous and. Coniferous trees, 
that is, our principal forest trees, being left to the contingency of an- 
other “ supplementary volume,” to be published or not, as circum- 
Stances may warrant ;—which we suspect is not exactly according to 
the terms of subscription. We should not have remarked upon this, 
nor upon the singular notion of making the Oaks, Hickories and Pines 
play a supplementary part to Oranges, Almonds, Pomegranates, Myr- 
tles, Figs and Camphor-trees, in a work on the “ trees of this country 
more complete and extensive than had hitherto been published,” if 
there had been any indication upon the title-page or cover, or even an 
explicit statement in the preface, that this is only the first volume of a 
work on our trees, and in itself incomplete. This is “a trick of the 
trade,” for which perhaps the author himself is not directly responsible. 
That we do not consider Mr. Browne as high botanical authority will 
Not be surprising, when it is seen that he describes the Ohio Buckeye 
a$ a variety of the common Horse Chestnut, the Rhus glabra as a vari- 
_ &ty of the Rhus typhina, the Robinia hispida or Bristly Locust as a 
vatiety of the pseudacacia or common Locust-tree ; states his confi- 
dent belief that the Choke Cherry and the Wild Black Cherry ( Cerasus 
virginiana and C. serotina) are one and the same species ; confounds 
in the same way all our species of Ash under Fraziaus americana, and 
allour Elms, even the Wahoo, and Slippery Elm, under Ulmus amer- 
