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ELEMENTS OF BOTANY:

OR

OUTLINES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY

OF

VEGETABLES.

ILLUSTRATED BY FORTY PLATES.

BY BENJAMIN SMITH BARTON, M. D.

President of the Philadelphia Linnean and Medical Societies; one of the Vice-
Presidents of the American Philosophical Society; Member of the Imperial
Society of Naturalists at Moscow in Russia; and Professor of
Materia Medica, Natural History, and Botany,

in the University of Pennsylvania.

THE SECOND EDITION,
CORRECTED AND GREATLY ENLARGED.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR.

1812.