HISTORY OF BOTANY. SS5 



described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in several works, (Synop- 

 sis Plantarum succulentarum, adjungitur Narcissorimi revisio, 

 London 1819, octavo ; Miscellanea Naturalia, London 1803, 

 octavo ; Transactions of Linn. Soc. vol. vii. p. 1. s.) The 

 Spathaceae were divided by John Bellenden Gawler, now Ker, 

 into several Genera, (Ann. of Bot. i. p. .^16.) u'ul j v 



The Scitaminese were subjected by William Roscoe (Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. vol. viii. p. 330.), and by William Roxburgh 

 (Asiat. Research, vol. xi. p. 200.) to a new revision. The same 

 w^as done by Olaus Swartz with the Orchideae, (Act. Soc. 

 Scient. L^psa], vi. p. 59. s. ; Stockh. Acad. Handl, 1800, 

 p. 202. s. ; Schrader's Journal, 1799, st. ii. s. 201 ; and 

 Neues Journal, st. i. s. 1. f.) 



Of the Chenopodeae, Peter Simon Pallas studied the salt 

 plants of the East ; (Illustrationes Plantarum imperfecte aut 

 nondum cognitarum, Leipzig 1803, folio.) 



Among the Thymelsese, the genus Daphne was examined by 

 John Em. Wikstrom; (Diss, de Daphne, Upsal 1817, quar- 

 to.) 



A complete revision of the Proteace^ was published by 

 Robert Brown ; (Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. x. p. 15. — 226.) 



Of the Amentaceae, the Willows were examined by George 

 Francis Hoffman, (Historia salicum, iconibus illustrata, vol.i.ii. 

 Leipzig 1785 to 1791, folio) ; and by W. C. Seringe, teacher 

 at Bern, (Essai d'une Monographie des Saules de la Suisse, 

 1815, octavo). 



The North American Oaks were studied by Andr. Mi- 

 chaux ; (Histoire des Chenes de TAmerique, Paris 1801, in 

 folio.) 



Of the Tricoccas, the genus Croton was made the subject 

 of an inquiry by Edward Ferdinand Geiserl ; (Crotonis Mo- 

 nographia, Halle 1807, octavo.) 



The genera Primula and Nicotiana were studied by J. G. 

 C. Lehmann, professor at Hamburgh ; (Monographia generis 

 Primularum, Leipzig 1817, quarto ; Historia generis Nico- 

 tianarum, Hamburg 1818, quarto.) The same author pub- 

 lished a classical revision of the Asperifolias ; (Plantae e fami- 

 Ha Asperifoliarum nuciferae, vol. i. ii. Berlin 1818, quarto.) 



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