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AMERICAN BOTANICAL WORKS. 
It may not be useless, or it may at least be grateful, 
to some of our readers, to hear that several botanical 
works are publishing, or will soon be published, in the 
United States ; we are therefore induced to notice 
them ; each will add its mite towards the knowledge 
of our vegetable productions. 
Botany of the southern states, Carolina and Georgia, 
by Stephen Elliot, Esq. Charleston ; begun this year. 
A valuable work, with good descriptions, and many new 
species. 
Descriptio uberior graminum et plantarum calama- 
riarum Americas septentrionalis, indigenarum et cicu- 
rum. Auctore D. Henrico Muhlenberg, Philadelphia, 
1817. One vol. 8vo. 
Descriptio uberior plantae lancastriensis et Ameri- 
canae. Opus postum. auctore D. Henrico Muhlenberg. 
—Announced. 
Manual of the Botany of the northern states. Al¬ 
bany, 1817. One vol. 12mo. 
Flora Novanglica, or Botany of th<e New-England 
states, by Dr. Bigelow and Mr. Bpoth, Boston.—An¬ 
nounced. 
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Prodromus Florae Noveboracensis, or Catalogue of 
the Plants growing within 30 miles of New-York, with- 
