read before the Literary and philosophical Society of New York

containing generic and specific descriptions of the indigenous plants and common cultivated exotics, growing north of the gulf of Mexico ; part first: North American plants, arranged according to the Linnean artificial method; improved by Persoon, Pursh, Nuttall, and others ; part second: North American plants, arranged according to Jussieu's natural method; improved by Lindley, Brown, De Candolle, and others

including an extended treatise on crystallography: with an appendix, containing the application of mathematics to crystallographic investigation, and a mineralogical bibliography