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icana. Some of these mistakes are copied from Loudon ; butan Amer- 
ican writer on the trees of his own country, who professes to exercise 
his own judgment on these points, should have corrected such obvious 
errors, instead of adding tothem. Some liberty is taken with the snes 
as well as the botany. A part of those beautiful lines— 
“ Wise with the lore of centuries, 
What tales, if there were tongues in trees, 
hose giant oaks could tell,’’— 
are “conveyed” to the Pittsfield Elm, without a sign to indicate the 
change. ‘The fruit of Crategus spathulata is said to- be of “ the small- 
ness of a grain of mustard-seed, (p. 274.) The venerable Hales is 
said to be the author of ** Vegetable Statistics”—instead of Vegetable 
Statics. Mr. Browne, following Michaux, says, “‘ The wood of Olea 
americana is excessively hard, and difficult to cut and split: hence the 
provincial name of Devil-wood,” (p. 382.) An insufficient reason, one 
would think, for the bestowal of such an ungracious cognomen. We 
have heard a better and more probable explanation,—viz. that the 
woed in burning snaps loudly, throwing the fragments explosively from 
the hearth. We should like to know our author’s authority for the fol- 
' lowing curious statement respecting the Sassafras-tree. ‘The most 
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interesting historical recollection connected with this tree is, that it may 
be said to have led to the discovery of America; as it was its strong 
fragrance smelt by Columbus that encouraged him to persevere when 
his crew were in a state of mutiny, and enabled him to convince them 
that land was not far off,” (p. 417.) Acute olfactories the great navi- 
gator must have had, to snuff the fragrance of Sassafras groves in 
Florida, more than five hundred miles off! Besides, now-a-days, the 
flowers of Sassafras are almost scentless. With the greatest propriety 
does the author say that he “ feels called upon to acknowledge that he 
is particularly indebted to Mr. Loudon for a large share of his work, 
taken from the Arboretum Britannicum, and to Dr. Thaddeus W. 
Harris, for many valuable extracts from his Report on the Insects of 
Massachusetts injurious to vegetation.” From the latter copious ab- 
stracts of the highest interest have been very freely taken ; indeed no- 
where, beyond Dr. Harris’s own volume, will so large an amount of 
his invaluable researches be found embodied, as in Mr. Browne? s — 
R. 
3. Outltacs of Siructhiral and Physiological Beinnyss by ARTHUR 
Henrrey, F. L. S., etc. With numerous illustrations: In three parts. 
Part I, Piemeniaey: Structures.. Part {1, Organs of Vegetation. pp- 
106, 12mo. London, 1846. Van Voorst.—The third part, “ contain- 
the Organs of Reproduction and General Physiology,” is doubtless 
