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INTRODUCTION, 
Under such predicament, I was compelled 
to decide upon a middle course; and I therefore 
undertook this work as a Supplemental Flora 
of North America, a kind of mantissa and ap- 
pendix to all my predecessors, avoiding there- 
by much expense and trouble in accumulating 
all the scattered materials and fragments alrea- 
dy published: altho’ I endeavored to collect 
them whenever I had to frame some peculiar 
careful monographs of neglected Genera or fa- 
milies. The illustration by figures of my New 
Genera and New Species will be kept apart in 
mpt. to be sold apart to any institution or indi- 
vidual that wish to possess them, as well as my 
botanical specimens, general Herbarium, and 
original typical sets collected together under 
the name of my Autikon Botanikon. 
I have called this work, a New Flora of North 
America , and such it is in fact: a real Flora, 
although not classed by the false sexual system, 
nor even my own improved natural method, 
but arranged differently. I do not even know 
yet exactly how it will be gone through ; but 1 
propose to commence by a sample of a Lexi- 
con to be contrasted with the manual Lexicon 
of Eaton, and go on with monographs of inte- 
resting Genera or Families, with a Sylva of my 
New Trees and Shrubs, a Neogenyton or ac- 
count of New Genera, and a Neobotanon or 
compendium of new species. I may, however, 
deviate from this plan if needful or desirable, 
and I hope to conclude the whole by a general 
Index, both alphabetical and classified natural- 
ly of all the Families and Genera. 
While I was preparing this work, I found 
myself so often perplexed and involved into dif- 
ficulties, by the actual improper framing ofGe- 
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