HISTORICAL SKETCH. 
only to a few selected medical plants — mine has 
100 wood cuts — Brereton botanical Journal, a 
Horticult. Journal in Baltimore, another in 
Philadelphia by Landreth, have only reached 
one or a few numbers. Audubon in bis splen- 
did work on Birds, has given many inaccurate 
figures of Trees and Shrubs, similar to those of 
Catesby — The best figures were those of Mi- 
chaux and Pursh, but those of Hooker now ex- 
ceed them still. I have published few of my 
own; many engraved in 1807 for me, were 
mostly lost before publication. I have reserved 
my labors in that way for my leones variorum 
yet mpt. and my Autikon Botanikon or plan 
of Self figures by specimens : of which Grey’s 
Grasses is as yet the only imitation with us. 
A splended flora of Newfoundland was be- 
gan in France, but has not been completed. 
The miscellaneous or partial labors on our 
Botany are very numerous, including tracts, 
essays, descriptions of single plants &c,. scat- 
tered in the transactions of our learned societies, 
Journals and periodicals &c, to seek for them 
is often a task or difficult matter. Several mo- 
nographs of New Genera and Species are thus 
linsia , Clintonia . Many may be found in 
Silliman’s physical Journal. 
Nuttal’s Genera of N. America and Eaton r s 
manual of Botany are two of the most striking 
and useful as general miscellanies. Eaton’s 
has had the luck to go through several editions 
as a school book ; but each Edition is different, 
enlarged or revised ; yet very defective in 
general, and lacking nearly all my new plants. 
