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the genus Rudbeckm, named after this eminent, but unfortunate, 

 botanist : he will now have some interesting ideas, which he can 

 associate with the name when he sees the plant. It is much to 

 be desired that a Biographical Dictionary of eminent Botanists 

 and Naturalists were published, from which gardeners and others 

 might draw a few ideas to associate with the commemorative 

 names of plants. We made an attempt at this, in the first pages 

 of our notes to the Encyclopaedia of Plants ,• but, finding that we 

 could not do it satisfactorily, for want of proper data, we gave it 

 up. It would require a German botanist to undertake such a 

 herculean task. 



Besides the relics before-mentioned, we saw the original draw- 

 ings for a work on fungi by Dillenius, as well as the dried spe- 

 cimens from which he drew and engraved, with his own hands, 

 the plates for his work on mosses. Passing over many other in- 

 teresting articles, we shall conclude by stating that we saw a num- 

 ber of the original drawings made from nature, by three artists, 

 for Mr. Baxter's excellent work, British Phcenogamous Botany. 

 We were happy to learn, from different sources, as well as from 

 Mr. Baxter himself, that this work is exceedingly well received, 

 as, indeed, it ought to be. We are persuaded that, when the 

 nature of the work is known, and that it will be completed in 

 about six volumes, there will not be a scientific young gardener, 

 or any young man or woman whatever, desirous of forming an 

 acquaintance with British plants, who will not become possessed 

 of it. Some persons that we have met with about London con- 

 found Mr. Baxter's British Phcenogamous Botany with Mr. Sower- 

 by's English Botany ; but the important difference between them 

 is, that the latter contains all the species, and the former only 

 one species of a genus. The English Botany will consequently 

 be much more extensive than the British Phcenogamous Botany ; 

 which last will not cost more, uncoloured, than Si. As there 

 are but a few genera of British plants, of which it can be desir- 

 able for a gardener, or, indeed, any person who is not a 

 scientific botanist, to know all the species, we certainly think 

 Mr. Baxter's work perfectly sufficient for every practical man. 

 Whoever knows the characters of a genus, and has seen the 

 typical species, can, generally speaking, easily make out from 

 botanical descriptions, or even short specific characters, any 

 of the species. Those who want to do more than know the 

 principal species, and at the same time to save themselves the 

 trouble of discovering species from descriptions, may have re- 

 course to Mr. Sowerby's excellent work, in which the whole of 

 them are figured, and may be recognised at a glance. For our 

 own part, we think that gardeners and most other persons 

 should endeavour to become acquainted with the genera and 



