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THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM 



Vol. 7 CHARLESTON, S. C, FEBRUARY, 1911 No. 2 

 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SYLVA OF SOUTH CAROLINA* 



DE BRAHM, GLEN, HEW AT 



In the period between Catesby and the publication of Walter's 

 Flora Caroliniana several general works on South Carolina treat 

 briefly of its flora and natural resources. These are of a more se- 

 rious and reliable nature than the descriptive pamphlets of the 

 later years of the seventeenth century, though scarcely more scien- 

 tific. De Brahm^ gives us lists of trees found growing in different 

 situations, as "on swamp land," "on rich land," and "on sandy 

 soil." 



Gov. Glen's^ reference to the trees of the state is most meagre, 

 consisting of a single paragraph enumerating seventeen trees, con- 

 cluding with ' ' and variety of other Sorts of Trees, the names of 

 which are scarcely known." Considering that Dr. Alexander 

 Garden accompanied Gov. Glen on his journey into the country of 

 the Cherokees in 1752 and that Glen's Description of South Caro- 

 lina was not published until 1761, this statement appears inexpli- 

 cable. Dr. Garden, while he probably published nothing on trees, 

 was yet enough of a botanist to have been of material assistance 

 to Linnaeus, and it is hardly conceivable that he should not have 



' Continued from the December number. 



'De Brahm, William Gerard, Philosophico-historico-hydrogeography of South Car- 

 olina, Georgia and East Florida. Reprinted in Weston, P. C. J. Documents connected 

 with the history of South Carolina. 1756. 



'(Glen, James.] A description of South Carolina. 1761. Reprinted in Carroll, B. E. 

 Historical collectiona of South Carolina. 1836. 



