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ted many genera and synonyms. 
Meantime my own Herbarium and Autikon 
contains about 1200 New Genera and New Spe- 
cies discovered and collected since 1802, but 
chiefly from 1815 to this time ; and whereof but 
a small part has been published or indicated as 
yet. It is therefore to these that I must apply 
myself at first in order to make known my dis- 
coveries and labors with the hidden wealth of 
our Flora. I shall however at the same time 
give many discriminating monographs of Fam- 
ilies and Genera, to elucidate their critical and 
correct knowledge. 
The New trees and Shrubs of North Ameri- 
ica which I have discovered and ascertained 
might form a separate volume ; but I may add 
them if practicable. As I have stated already, 
arrangement is of little consequence now in 
botanical works ; since every botanist changes 
the serial order, by misunderstanding the real 
steps of nature in organized vegetables. If I 
was to offer a very elaborate series of real cor- 
rected natural orders as I did in 1815, they 
would be deemed improper by those who now be- 
gin to dabble in them, and give us jumbled fam- 
ilies without peculiar essential characters , and 
without proper names , as they constantly go 
on to do the same with Genera and Species. 
I seldom was able to publish a botanical work 
exactly as I wished in the proper style and plan. 
I can only collect and afford new materials, ob- 
servations and criticisms for better times or 
moods. Yet my actual labor, is as much a Flo- 
ra as that of Michaux or Pursh, since it includes 
more new discoveries, and may only pass over 
the wellknown and settled plants. But whene- 
ver doubts or disparities occur, they will deserve 
