[863] Smith's Introd. to Phys. and Syst. Botany, p. 304. 1807.

[864] This information was communicated to me by Professor Henslow, of Cambridge.

[865] Book iii. ch. iv.

[866] De Candolle, Essai Elémen. &c., p. 50.

[867] Quarterly Review, vol. xxx. p. 8.

[868] Essay on the Habitable Earth, Amœn. Acad., vol. ii. p. 409.

[869] Principles of Botany, p. 389.

[870] Ibid.

[871] Buffon, vol. v.—On the Virginian Opossum.

[872] Prichard's Phys. Hist. of Mankind, vol. i. p. 54.