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sier, Squibb, Lewis, and Walter; from Sweden, Professor 
Kalm, a pupil of Linnaeus and collector for him ; fromGer* 
many, Fursling and Pursh ; France has sent us Michaux 
and Volney, and Prussia, Baron Humboldt and King. To 
these indeed many other names might be added ; but among 
them all there is not one of our own countrymen—no one 
who has received our patronage or encouragement. If you 
are unwilling to engage a botanist for this purpose, let eve¬ 
ry member who is at all acquainted with the subject, en¬ 
gage to occupy himself in multiplying the number of local 
Floras ; and we may thus, perhaps, obtain the vegetable 
contents of the state. Should this plan be adopted, each in¬ 
dividual engaging should undertake to survey a district con¬ 
tiguous to his residence, with special and minute investiga¬ 
tion. The nomenclature and classification of the vegetable 
tribes are now reduced to such a systematic form, that any 
discovery may be registered with the greatest ease and pre¬ 
cision. If this method should be pursued with industry 
and skill, we might soon reverse, in regard to this region of 
our country, the position of the poet, and say 
JVot “ many a flower is born to blush unseen. 
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.” 
