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HISTORICAL SKETCH. 
Several elements of Botany by Locke, Rich? 
Comstock, Sumner, Nuttal, Grey, and others 
have been published for the use of Schools 
chiefly. None have yet made us familiar with 
the improvements of Decandole, Richard, 
Agardh &c. Lindley has been reprinted. My 
improvements in philosophical Botany will be 
recapitulated in the Introduction to my Flora 
Tellukiana. 
My own miscellaneous works are not few, 
New Genera and Species, 1808 in Mitchell’s 
Med. and Phil, repository. Elements of Semi- 
ology— Analysis of Nature — Reviews of Pursh, 
Nuttal, Eaton, Elliot, Bigelow &c. Decads 
of new plants 1818 — 50 New Genera of plants 
1819 — Neogenyton or 66 New Genera 1825 
Annals of Nature 1820.- — medical flora 1828 
to 1830 — Atlantic Journal 1832 with 150 N* 
G. or Sp. — Herbarium Rafinesquianum 1833. 
Botanical remarks and novelties in the Brux- 
cells Annals of Science 1820 — New plants in 
Mirror of Sciences 1814 — Precis des Decouver- 
tes 1814 &c,. &c. 
In fact I have been accused of having scattered 
too much my botanical discoveries and labors ; 
but I mean now to concentrate them in this 
work. Nuttal’s rare plants of Florida and 83 
new of various parts, with Asa Grey 4 rare 
plants of New York are miscellaneous labors 
like mine. 
Our Botanists besides writers may be divided 
into Collectors, Travellers, Amateurs and Hor- 
ticulturalists. 
Those who have written but little, or merely 
some sketch, are Baldwin, Croom, Thomas, 
Aikin, Conrad, Oakes, Peck, Houghton, School- 
craft, Waterhouse, Locke, James, Halsey, 
