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IV. Borany anp Zoouocy. 
1. Flora Cestrica; an Herborizing companion 4 9 a Young Botan- 
ists of Chester County State of Pennsylvania ; mM. DaR.LInGtTon, 
i ird Edition, Philadelphia, Lindsey and Blakiston, 
1853, p. 498, wath an introduction of 90 pages, !2mo.—The sec- 
ond edition of this Pray popular work, published in 1837, was 
almost a model o ocal Flora. To grace his 71s t birth day, our 
whole according to the natural system. The introductory part oe 
with five preliminary discourses, which siskaantty discuss the scope 
the science of botany, and the inducements to its study ; ‘iia limits aa 
characters of the vegetable kingdom ; the doctrines of morphology ; and 
the sale tag of plants, both by the artificial and the natural method. 
o ery full Glossary of botanical terms, a Linnwan 
atrAigeredt of t Sees and a Conspectus of ore pete ae 
ook. 
Sent instance, since it has made room for the Mosses, Liverworts, and 
even the Lichens ;—the latter being here for the time introduced 
into a Flora of any part of North ‘America, except that of Michaux. 
Nor has the compression eliminated the shane te touches of quaint 
humor and sentiment which still enliven many a page. We must not for- 
With such an excellent aiteca nec, it must be a pleasure and a 
peculiar satisfaction to study botany in Chester County, Pennsylvania ! 
—a county most honorably distinguished, thanks to Dr. Darlington, by 
the possession of a Florula of its own, for nearly thirty years, and still 
unique in this respect. May the excellent author and benefactor of his 
native county survive - see his example imitated in many — se 
oe a our wide ¢ 
2. 5 Carolia "Exsiceats: Fungi of chess, étlustrated ‘by 
Natural § Spuciasene of the ee; by H. W. Ravenet, Corresp. Memb. 
Acad. Nat. Sci., &c., &c. Fase. 1, Charleston: John Russell, 1852.— 
* ee about 30 sets of this a are issued, it will ole be met with, 
ept by the small, but increasing num mber 0 persons who are oe 
ented in the study of this obscure and difficult iy af plants. We 
cond Senmms, Vol. XVI, No. 46—July, 1953. 
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