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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ...stigma its roots, the tips of which eventually reach the ovule, and there complete their evolution. Schleiden and Wydler have already published their ideas upon this subject, and Mr. Endlicher declares himself an advocate of the same views. In the papers of the former physiologists, the supposed fertilizing influence of the pollen was disposed of; but no attempt was made to shew in what the said influence resides, if not in the pollen. Mr. Endlicher supplies this omission by assigning that function to the papillae of the stigma. A Flora of North America; arranged according to the Natural System, by John Torrey and Asa Gray. Vol. 1. part I. New York, July 1838. The poor compilation by Pursh, and the meagre Flora Boreali-Americana of Michaux, are the only general works yet published upon the Flora of that vast part of the North American continent which lies north of Mexico; and neither of these works was written by an American. Most extensive materials for giving a good account of those varied regions have been accumulating for many years; several excellent local Floras have been published in the United States, Sir Wm. Hooker's valuable work, the Flora Boreali-Americana, is a mine of information concerning the species inhabiting the British possessions, and the journeys of Douglas, Drummond, Nuttall, Coulter, and others, have produced a very considerable amount of information, of which little is yet published, concerning the Southern and once Spanish territories. It is the purpose of Drs. Torrey and Gray to consolidate these materials into three closely-printed octavo volumes, of about 550 pages each; and, to judge from the previous writings of these eminent Botanists, and from the present work, the task could not have been undertaken by more able men. I have...