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other European botanists. He is best remembered in the so- 
called Bartram oak, Quercus heterophylla, and in the unique bo- 
tanic garden which he established on the banks of the Schuylkill, 
near Philadelphia. 
An herbaceous plant of the Old World, Michauxia, com- 
memorates the author of the first “Flora of North America,’ and 
the most untiring explorer this country has ever seen. Although 
André Michaux the elder cannot be ranked as a Southern botan- 
ist, as he spent only a few years in the Southern States, he so 
identified himself with our flora, and being the first botanist to 
cross the mountains, in 1795, from the East into Tennessee and 
Kentucky, that we cannot pass him wholly unmentioned. 
Of the 1700 species of plants enumerated in Gattinger's 
“Tennessee Flora,’ over 135 were originally described and named 
by Michaux, and many of these were found by him, some for the 
first time, within our State limits. Michaux, with his son’s assist- 
ance did more than any other man to diffuse a knowledge of our 
forest trees, particularly the oaks. His “Flora” was published in 
1803. 
Passing over a number of names scarcely less noteworthy 
than those already mentioned, we come to those who have been 
most active in the investigation of Southern plants within the 
present century. : 
A yellow-flowered composite plant of the sand hills of Georg!a 
and Florida, named by Nuttall, Baldzwinia multiffora, calls up be- 
fore us one of our pioneers in the field of botany, Dr. William 
Baldwin. Dr. Baldwin was born in Pennsylvania in 1779, edu- 
eated at the University of that State, and in 1811 removed to 
Georgia. He was a man much beloved by his associates, of whom 
Stephen Elliott was one, and was possessed with a most amiable 
character. He studied very minutely the difficult family of 
sedges, and the yet more difficult genera of grasses, Paspalum 
and Panicum. One of his best botanical papers was published 
the Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., of Phila., and another in the American 
Journal of Science, the first relating to sedges, the second pee - 
grasses. He was appointed botanist to the expedition under Mar 
Maj. Long, but his health, never very strong, failed completely eee 
during the journey to the field, and he died at Franklin, Mo., 
