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ascertaining the name, and uses of any plant, the student may 

 proceed to the study of the Natural Order, referred to in the 

 Second Part of the Introduction to Botany. The Grasses, 

 Carices, and Umbelliferous plants are too difficult of investi- 

 gation for the first season. It is desirable to have recourse 

 +o some experienced botanist in pursuing this study: Mr. 

 Baxter, of the Botanic Garden, gives able lessons in Botany ; 

 and his Generic Plates, with the Plates of Sowerby to 

 English Botany, or those of Gerarde in his Herbal, will 

 prove useful aids to the student; but, in no case, we repeat it, 

 should the student attempt learning botany, by a mere 

 7'eference to 'platen. To reap advantage, and to derive satis- 

 faction from the study, he must proceed scientifically, and 

 examine nature herself. He will find the Compendium of 

 Smith's Knglish Flora, bound in the smallest form, a con- 

 venient pocket Vade-Mecum. 



The following additional books may be recommended to 

 the Student of Natural History. 



White's Selborne. 



Journal of a Naturalist. 



Drummond's Letters on Natural History. 



Botany. 



Sir James Edward Smith's different Publications, including 

 his Grammar, Introduction to Botany, and English 

 Flora. 



Hooker's British Flora, 8vo. — 



Lindley's Works. 



Loudon's Magazine of Natural History, 8vo. 



Paley's Natural Theology. 



Duncan's Botanical Theology, 2nd edit, and his " Analogies." 

 The learned reader, who is desirous of prosecuting his 

 botanical studies further, will find ample catalogues of bota- 

 nical works, in the first vol. of Decandolle's Regni Vegetabilis 

 Systema Naturale, 1818, and in the volumes of Sir James 

 Edward Smith's English Flora. 



The Linnagan Transactions contain many admirable Bota- 

 nical Papers : a useful selection might, perhaps, be published 

 from that expensive and voluminous work. 



