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testator, and a most zealous botanist. After coming into possession of 
this wble me upon the occasion of opening his course of lectures 
i for the year 1 855, Professor Parlatore pronounced the eulogy here 
¥ -Tished. ” It is illustrated by interesting explanatory notes, and followed 
F by a catalogue of the works and opuscula published by Mr. Webb, twenty- 
four in number; by an account of his library and herbaria; and by se- 
lections from his co orrespondence with various botanists. The li ographed 
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pinees! was published in his great work, the Histoire Naturelle - - 
re Slovicuttural Botany in the Western States——In the fourth volnis 
4 of the Transactions of the ran ini ore Society of Wisconsin for 
1854-7, Mr. Lapham has given a good popular account of the forest 
trees indigenous to that State, illustrated by outline wood-cuts. = the 
‘Transactions of the Ilinois Agricultural Society for 1856-7 the same in- 
defatigable author has contributed, 1. A Catalogue of ae Plants of. Illi- 
nois, prefaced by some historical mi statistical details; 2. An a ccount of 
the N ative, Naturalized and Cultivated Grasses of Iinofe, ‘lustrated by 
three plates or pages of wood cuts. ese do not equal the figures in 
Mr. Lapham’s Grasses of Wisconsin. We are disposed to doubt the 
statement on p. 559 about the difference in the — gravity of the 
pollen of Indian corn and of wild rice, unless the author can vouch for 
it from his own proper observations. Perhaps it ets upon no better 
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sarees ; and that "ae best act to oo en bape y disbelieve, not 
with a Popular Flora, or 
Plants, both wild and "cultivated; 
sexe axtemied works of the apo ids onetions ovine 
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anes iplied in number; 3d, Why plants al 
-are made for and what they do; 4th, How plants are class 
say. Then, in the second part, the work Risin a a 
nitlew. sed including descriptions of the common 
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lants of the cen both those of the woods and fields, as well as those _ 
ae and gardens. It is ae to the natural sys- 
