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and bj Thomas Nuttall, Genera of North American Plants, 

 Philadelphia 1818, in two volumes. Stephen Elliot exa- 

 mined the southern states ; Botany of the Southern States, 

 Carolina and Georgia, Charlestown 1817, 1818. Some con- 

 tributions were furnished by Henry Muhlenberg, clergyman 

 at Lancaster, who died 1816, Catalogus Plantar um Americae 

 Septentrionalis, Lancaster 1813, octavo ; by Const. Schmalz 

 Rafinesque, Florula Ludoviciana, translated from the French 

 of C. C. Robin, New York 1817, octavo; and by C. W. Ed- 

 dy and J. Torrey ; (A Catalogue of Plants growing sponta- 

 neously within thirty miles of the city of New York, Albany 

 1819, octavo.) 



Olaus Swarz, professor at Stockholm, who died 1817, des- 

 cribed in a very complete manner the West Indian Flora in 

 his Flora Indise Occiden talis, Erlangen 1797 to 1806, in 

 three volumes. 



The Spaniards Hippolytus Ruiz and Joseph Pavon, have 

 made us acquainted with a multitude of new genera and spe- 

 cies belonging to Peru and Chili, in their Flora Peruviana 

 et Chilensis, Madrid 1798, in folio. But Alexander von 

 Humboldt has gained immortal honour by his numerous bo- 

 tanical discoveries, the fruits of his travels through Spanish 

 America. He published them along with Amatus Bonpland, 

 in his Plantes Equinoxiales, and with Charles Kunth in his 

 Nova Genera et Species Plantarum, Paris 1815, in three vo- 

 lumes. 



Lewis Nee, the companion of Malaspina, examined with 

 much care the South Sea Islands. Antony Joseph Cava- 

 nilles, professor at Madrid, wlio died 1804, availed himself of 

 his treasures, and described them in his Icones et Descrip- 

 tiones Plantarum, Madrid 1791 to 1799, in six volumes. Ja- 

 cob Julius la Billardiere published an excellent Flora of New 

 Holland, under the title Novae Holiandiae Plantarum Speci- 

 men, Paris 1804, in folio, with 265 copperplates. We owe 

 the greatest obligations to the ingenious Robert Brown, whose 

 Prodromus Florae Nova? Holiandiae, London 1810, very rare, 

 and his General Remarks on the Botany of Terra Australis, 

 London 1814, are uncommonly valuable. 



