Dr. Hooker on American Botany. 263 



Table A. fig. 1. C. aristata. Vol. VH. p. 277. 



" ditto 2. lenlicularis. Vol. VII. p. 273. 



" ditto 3. disperma. Vol. VIII. p. 266. 



" ditto 4. granularioides. Vol. IX p. 262. 



Table B. fig- 5. C. setacea. Vol. IX. p. 61. 



" ditto 6. formosa. Vol. Vlll. p. 98. 



" ditto 7. novce-anglice. Vol. IX. p. G4. 



•' ditto 8. Schweiniizii. Vol. IX. p. 68. 



Table C. fig. 9. C. tenera. Vol. VIII. p. 97. 



" ditto 10. longirostris. Vol. IX. p. 257. 



" ditto 11. Deweyana. Vol. IX. p. 62. 



" ditto 12. trispermtc. Vol. IX. p. 63,, 



AuT. IX. — On the Botany of America. By William Jack- 

 son HooKEK, LL.D. F.R.S.E.* 



In noticing, as we propose to do, the progress of botany, 

 and the present state of that science in various parts of Eu- 

 rope, it is by no means our intention to pass by in silence 

 what has been effected by our brethren in North America, a 

 country which, for extent and interest, has scarcely any pa- 

 rallel in the world. If we were to estimate it from its south- 

 ern extremity, we should commence our calculations at the 

 tenth degree of north latitude ; but as we shall confine our 

 observations to those districts which have submitted to the 

 sway of the United States, or to those which may, with more 

 propriety, be termed the British possessions in North Ame- 

 rica, we shall omit the Mexican dominions altogether; and 

 beginning with the thirtieth degree of latitude, we have a 

 space extending northward beyond the arctic circle; and if 

 we include the island of Newfoundland, through eighty de- 

 grees of longitude in its utmost breadth. The vegetation is 

 as various as are the climate and the soil, throughout this vast 

 extent of continent, in the Floridas grows a majestic species 

 of Palm, (Chamcerops Palmetto,) and the Orange, the Col- 

 ton, the Indigo, and even the Sugar cane may be cultivated 

 there to great perfection and advantage. In the Carolinas 

 and the F'orldas the eye of the traveller is charmed with the 

 beauty and grandeur of the forest trees, the various species of 

 Evergreen oak, the numerous kinds of Pine, Walnut, and 



"" From Dr. Brewster's Edinburgh Jeurnasl of Science, No. HI. p. 168; 



