HISTORY OF BOTANY. 



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obtained great distinction. On the physiology of pknts in ge- 

 neral, several introductory works have appeared, namely, the 

 Traite Theorique et Pratique sur la Vegetation, by Mus- 

 tel, a French officer, published at Rouen, 1781, in four 

 volumes ; the Physiologie Vegetale of John Senebier, a 

 Genevese clergyman, who died 1809, Geneva, 1800, in five 

 volumes ; the Vegetable Physiology of Darwin, physician 

 at Derby, who died 1802, translated at Leipsig, 1801 ; and 

 the System of Physiological Botany of P. Keith, clergyman 

 at Bethersden, in England, London, 1816, in two volume:,. 



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Native plants have recently been exaniintd with great 

 care. 



To begin with Germany. — In the Manual of Botany, by 

 Christ. Schkuhr, mechanician at Wittenberg, who died 1811, 

 published at Wittenberg between 1791 and 1803, in three vo- 

 lumes, with nearly 500 plates, we have a multitude of very 

 excellent drawings and dissections, chiefly of native, but also 

 of many exotic plants. The Flora of Germany, in plates, by 

 Jacob Sturm, artist at Nurnberg, in three parts, and sixty- 

 five numbers, likewise deserves, in every respect, the most 

 honourable mention. The Flora Germanica of Henry Adol- 

 phus Schrader, professor at Gottingen, of which the first vo- 

 lume appeared in 1806, is distinguished by the most perfect 

 accuracy and care. It is only to be lamented, that it has not 

 been continued till the present time. Among the Floras 

 of particular districts of Germany, we may mention, espe- 

 cially, the Flora Badensis, in three volumes, by Charles 

 Christ, Gmelin, physician at Baden, published at Carlsruhe, 

 1805 and 1810 ; the Flora Cry}itogamica Erlangensis of 

 Charles Frederick Philip Martins, published at Nurnberg, 

 1817 ; and the Prodromus Florge Neoraarchicse of John Fre^ 

 derick Kebentisch, published at Berlin, 1804. 



A general Flora of France was pu!)lished by Augustus 

 Pyramus de Candolle, in the Fl{)re Fran9aise, Paris, 1805 

 to 1816, in six volumes; and by Loiseleur Deslongchampsj 

 in his Flora Gallica, Paris, 1806 and 1807. Among the 



