238 Botanical Writings of Rafinesque. 



numbers appeared in 1832 and 1833 ; published at Philadelphia. 

 The whole forms an 8vo. volume of 212 pages. Its contents 

 are miscellaneous, but there are several botanical articles, in 

 which, of course, new genera and species are described. In one 

 of these articles, Rafinesque takes up Dr. Torrey's account of the 

 plants collected by Dr. James, in Long's expedition to the Rocky 

 Mountains, (published in the second volume of the Annals of the 

 Lyceum of Natural History, New York,) upon which he creates 

 twenty new genera ! In another, he describes two new genera of 

 UinhellifercB called Strehlanthus and Orimaria ; one of which is 

 an Eryngium falsely characterized ; the other, a Bupleurum 

 (which had doubtless escaped from some garden) in an undevelop- 

 ed state, which we happen to know Rafinesque had mistaken for 

 a grass, and described as a new genus of that family ; but, be- 

 ing told it was a Bupleurum, he has accordingly published it as 

 a new genus "near to Bupleurum." 



1833. Herbarium Rafinesqiiianum. Loose sheets, printed in 

 24mo., we believe at different times, and reaching to about eighty 

 pages. The first partis chiefly a reprint from the last number of 

 his Atlantic Journal ; the second contains a list of his botanical 

 works, and account of plants offered for sale, a monograph of 

 Samolus increased to ten species, of the American species of Cyp- 

 ripediurn increased to ten species, of Spiranthes, ten species, and 

 oi Jeffersonia and Podophyllum, each increased to four species. 

 The remainder is of the same character. 



1836. Flora Telluriatia : four parts ; each of about one hun- 

 dred pages, 8vo. ; the fourth part, or supplement published in 

 1838. — New Flora a7id Botany of North America ; being a sup- 

 plem.ental flora to the various botanical works of Michaux, Muh- 

 lenberg, Pursh, (^c. <^c. Ifc. Philadelphia ; printed for the author 

 and publisher. Four parts are mentioned; but we have seen 

 only three, of about one hundred pages each. 



The object proposed in the Flora Telluriana is general gen- 

 eric reform ; and the author informs his readers, that " although 

 the attempt may astonish or perplex some timid botanists," he in- 

 tends to establish about one thousand totally 7ieio genera, includ- 

 ing some of those he had formerly published :* it is needless to 

 add, that in this and the New Flora of North America, together, 

 he has nearly fulfilled his promise. According to his principles, 



* Flora Telluriana, Introduction, p. 15. 



