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HISTORY OF BOTANY. 



El. von Bride], (Methodus Nova Muscorum, Gotha 1819, 

 quarto.) 



Sir James Edward Smith had already given much attention 

 to Ferns, and has established the principles according to which 

 they ought to be divided, (Mem. de PAcad. de Turin, vol. v. 

 p. 401.) ; But Oiaus Swartz completed this system, (Synop- 

 sis Filicum, Keil 1806, octavo.) 



Christ. Schkuhr published a good monograph on the 

 Reeds, (Beschreibung und Abbildung der Ried-grasser, Wit- 

 tenberg 1801 to 1806, octavo, with 93 copperplates. The 

 Austrian Grasses were excellently delineated by Nicolaus 

 Thomas Host, an Austrian physician, (Icones et Descrip- 

 tiones Graminum Austriacorum, vol. i. — iv. Vienna 1801 

 to 1814) ; and John Gaudin, clergyman in WaadtLmd, 

 described the Grasses of Switzerland, (Agrostologiae Hel- 

 vetica?, vol. i. ii. Paris 1811, octavo.) John Christian Da- 

 niel Schreber, professor at Erlangen, who died 1810, in-i 

 stituted excellent investigations respecting particular grasses^ 

 and published very good figures of them, (Beschreibung 

 der Grasser, th. 1 — 3, Leipzig 1769 to 1810, in folio.) 

 An entirely new and peculiar system was formed by A. M. 

 F. J. Palisot de Beauvois, (Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrosto- 

 graphie, ou Nouveaux Genres des Graminees, Paris 1812, 

 octavo.) 



Among the Pine tribe the genus Pinus was described 

 by Aylmer Bourke Lambert, (A Description of the Genus 

 Pinus, London 1803, in folio). 



The Coronariae and Liliaceae were studied by Augustus 

 Py ramus de Candolle and P. J. Redoute, (Histoire de Plantes 

 Grasses, i. — xxii. Paris 1799 to 1811, in folio ; and Les Li- 

 liacees, vol. i. — viii. Paris 1802 to 1816, in folio.) The text 

 of the latter work was furnished for the first four volumes by 

 De Candolle, and for the fifth, sixth, and seventh, by F. de la 

 Roche, and for the eighth by A. R. Delile. The genus Aloe was 

 thoroughly and carefully examined by Charles Lewis Willde- 

 now (Berlin Mag. v. s. 163. f.), and by the Prince of Salm- 

 Dyck, (Veizeichniss der verschiedenen Arten des Geschlechtes 

 Aloe, 1817, octavo.) These, and other succulent plants were 



