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HisTOny or botany. 



du Regne Vegetal, Paris, 1799, four volumes ; as also Au- 

 gustus John George Charles Batsch, professor at Jena, who 

 died 1802, bj his Tabulae Affinitatum Regni Vegetabihs, 

 Weimar, 1802 ; and, it is to be hoped, that Augustus Pyra- 

 mus de Candolle, professor at Geneva, will gain the highest 

 credit, by the continuation of his Sy sterna Naturale Regni 

 Vegetabilis, Paris, 1818. 



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The anatomy and physiology of plants have gained new 

 life, especially in Germany, France, and Italy, since the 

 structure of plants has been examined, without reference to 

 preconceived ideas. John Hedwig, along with many import- 

 ant truths, had also given currency to some obvious mistakes, 

 especially in the collection of his scattered works, Leipsig, 

 1 793, in two volumes ; and the correct view (Prodrcmo di Fisi- 

 ca Vegetabile, Padua, J 791) of Andrew Camparetti, professor 

 at Padua, obtained little success, at least in Germany. Antony 

 Krocker, (De Plantarum Epidermide, Halle, 1800), and the 

 author of this history, in his Introduction to the Knowledge of 

 Plants, Halle, 1812, endeavoured, indeed, to lay open these 

 mistakes, and to shew the true structure of plants. But more 

 attention was paid in France to the frequently mistaken ideas 

 of C. F. Brisseau Mirbel, of the French Academy, in his 

 Traite d' Anatomie et de Physiologic Vegetales, Paris, 1802. 

 Meanwhile, Henry Frederick Link, and Charles Asmund 

 Rudolphi, professors at Berlin, as also Ludolph Christian 

 Treviranus, professor at Breslau, published more correct 

 views ; (Link, Grundlehen der Anatomie und Physiolo- 

 gie der Pflanzen, Berlin, 1807 ; Rudolphi, Anatomie der 

 Pflanzen, Berlin, 1807 ; and Treviranus, vom Inwendigen 

 Bau der Gewachse, Gottingen, 1806.) Since then, Mir- 

 bel has come nearer the truth ; (Exposition et Defense de ma 

 Theorie de P Organization Vegetaie, Amsterdam, 1808.) 

 John Jacob Paul Moldenhawer, professor at Kiel, by his 

 Contributions to the Anatomy of Plants, Kiel, 1815, quarto ; 

 and George Kieser, professor at Jena^ by his Memoire sur 

 r Organization des Plantes, Haarlem, 1813, quarto; and by 

 his Grundzuge der Anatomie der Pflanzen, Jena, 1815, have 



