298 Bibliography. 
12mo, 800 pages. Boston and Cambridge : James Munroe and Com- 
pany. London: John Chapman. 1848.—This work which we announ- 
early copy of the contents and preface, we cannot do better justice to 
the learned author than by copying a portion of the latter. 
“This work is designed asa compendious Flora of the Northern 
ed to be comprised within the compass ocket volume, which 
might serve as a vade-mecum in herborizations, as well as a convenient 
manual of reference at home. But the volume has attained a some- 
what unwieldy bulk, notwithstanding every effort at condensation, and 
the rigorous exclusion of all irrelevant matter, however interesting in 
itself, and of all synonymy not really essential.” * * * * 
“‘ The wide district which this compendious Flora embraces, although 
irregular in form, plainly belongs to one and the same botanical region. 
With the exception of the small patches of alpine vegetation which 
crown the higher mountains of Northern New England and Northern 
New York; of the sea-side plants, and of some appropriately Southern 
forms which not only reach Delaware and New Jersey (especially the 
Pine barrens), but also straggle northward coastwise, in diminishing 
numbers, quite to New Hampshire ; of a very few which belong to the 
Great Lakes; and perhaps a larger number of Western prairie plants 
which extend into Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan :—with these excep- 
tions, the vegetation is remarkably homogeneous for so large a dis- 
trict, and a very great proportion of the species are sporadic over the 
whole breadth.” * * * * 
founded on obvious characters ; and, whenever there are two or more 
species under a division, I have italicized some of the leading distine- 
tions (after the manner of Koch’s Flora Germanica), so that they may 
at once catch the student’s eye. The full-face type, in which the 
names of the genera and species are printed, affords a similar facility, 
y rendering them very conspicuous. ‘To aid in their pronunciation, I 
have not only marked the accented syllable, but have followe Lou- 
k (’)- 
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In respect to this, my friend, Mr. Folsom, has obligingly rendered 
ed Glossary and Index combined, should serve to convey the requisite 
elementary knowledge of the science, and to explain all the technical 
