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1 1. Mamial of Botany for North America; by Prof. Amos Ea- 

 ton, Sixth edition, Albany, 1833. 12mo. — It is surely a happy 

 token of the wide spread taste for the scientific study of plants, that 

 six editions of Mr. Eaton's Register of American and common gar- 

 den plants have been called for in this country ; in addition to seve- 

 ral otlier works of the same nature. The plan of his work is too 

 well known to require any remark ; it is only necessary to allude to 

 the alterations made in the present edition. To quote from the pre- 

 face, " Nothing new is presented either in the text, or in the cata- 

 logue, excepting what ought to have been discovered in this pro- 

 gressive science, since the fifth edition of this manual was printed ; 

 and not so much of real improvement, has been added, as between 

 the fourth and fifth editions." A few terms of modern invention 

 have been adopted, some genera have been modifiedj and the natural 

 orders of Jussieu have been farther subdivided, in accordance with 

 the best authorities for these innovations. The new generic names 

 of DeCandolle are given as synonyms. The author professes to 

 have engrafted upon this edition, all the improvements relative to 

 American Botany to be derived from the recent writings of Lindley, 

 Hooker, Loudon, and the four published volumes of DeCandolle. 

 The etymologies of the genera are also given, apparently, with con- 

 siderable attention, and will undoubtedly enhance the value of the 

 work; but the copious glossary of terms published in the last edition, 

 we are sorry to see, has been reduced within very unsatisfactory- 

 limits and confounded with the general index. This, surely, is to be 

 regretted, as the student will still have to provide himself with a sep- 

 arate work for obtaining terminological information. " This edition 

 presents a North American Flora , as full as the present state of the sci- 

 ence will admit. It not only includes all the well defined plants of the 

 United States ; but those of the Canadas, Nova Scotia, fee. The 

 number of genera descrided is 1228, the number of species is 5267." 



12. Botany oj the Northern and Middle States; by lunwis Co 

 Beck. Albany, 1833. pp. 471, 12rao. — This is the first descrip- 

 tive catalogue of our plants, arranged according to the natural system. 

 The attempt certainly will not fail of being received with approbation 

 by all botanical students ; and the more especially as the treatise 

 embraces a synopsis of the genera, after the analytical system of 

 Linnseus, by means of which the advantages of both systems are 

 placed together in the hands of the learner. The orders are arrange 



