ELEMENTS OF BOTANY.

OR

OUTLINES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY

OF

VEGETABLES.

ILLUSTRATED BY FORTY ENGRAVINGS:

BY BENJAMIN SMITH BARTON, M. D.

President of the Philadelphia Linnen and Medical Societies; one of the Vice Presidents of
the American Philosophical Society; Member of the Imperial society of Moscow
in Russia; and Professor of Materia Medica, Natural History
and Botany, in the University of Pennsylvania.

A NEW EDITION:

REVISED AND CONDENSED,

WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE AUTHOR,

BY. WILLIAM P. C. BARTON, M.D.

A Senior Surgeon of the U. S. Navy; Formerly Professor of Botany in the University of
Pennsylvania; and of Materia Medica and Botany in the Jefferson Medical College of
Philada.; and now Lecturer in the Therapeutic Institute of Philadelphia; for teaching Bo
tany, Materia Medica, &c.

PHILADELPHIA:

ROBERT DESILVER, 110, WALNUT STREET.

1836.