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HISTORY OF BOTANY. 



bryanthemum, London 1794, octavo; Miscellanea Naturalia, 

 London 1803.) 



The Melastomese, collected during the travels of Hum- 

 boldt, were revised by Amatus Bonpland in a magnificent 

 work, (Monographic des Melastomes, fasc. i. — vi. Paris 1809, 

 quarto.) 



Of the Roseaceae, the Potentillse were subjected to a new 

 revision by C. G. Nestler, professor at Strasburg (Monogra- 

 phia de Potentilla, Strasburg 1816, quarto), and by J. C. G. 

 Lehman. The splendid works on Roses by Miss Lawrence 

 (Collection of Roses from Nature, London 1799, folio,) and 

 by P. J. Redoute (Les Roses, liv. i. — xi. Paris 1816, folio,) 

 have not been of an y particular advantage to the science. 



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Among the botanical gardens of recent times, that at 

 Schonbrun near Vienna deserves to be first mentioned. Its 

 treasures were described by the elder Jacquin, in the Hortus 

 Schonbrunnensis, Vienna 1797, in four volumes. To this 

 department belong also his Icones Plantarum rariorum, in 

 three volumes, Vienna 1781 to 1795, and the Eclogae Planta- 

 rum rariorum of his son Joseph Francis von Jacquin, Vienna 

 1811 to 1816. Next to this, the garden at Berlin has be- 

 come celebrated by the zeal of Willdenow, and the rare ta- 

 lents of its present superintendant Otto. The Hortus Bero- 

 linensis of Willdenow, Berlin 1809, folio, rivals the work of 

 Jacquin ; and his Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Berolinensis, 

 Berlin 1809, is a very rich, scientific, and useful catalogue. 



Among the botanical gardens of France, that established by 

 Josephine Bonaparte at Malmaison has been celebrated from 

 the splendid work which the superintendant Ventenat began 

 to publish in 1803, in folio, under the title Jardin de la Mal- 

 maison, and which Amatus Bonpland continued, (Description 

 des Plantes rares cultivees a Malmaison et a Navarre, livr. 

 i. — X. Paris 1803 to 1816, in folio.) Ventenat pubhshed fi- 

 gures of the rarer plants in a nursery-garden, and described 

 them under the titles, Description des Plantes dans le Jardin 



