from complete, nevertheless constitute the most valuable part 

 of the manuscript. Drayton does not translate Walter's Latin 

 descriptions of species, but gives instead English determinations, 

 data as to locaUty and seasonal occurrence, and frequent refer- 

 ence to the works of Catesby, Bartram, and other botanists. 

 Occasionally a species not found in the Flora is introduced. 



ANDRE MICHAUX 



In 1787, a few months before the death of Thomas Walter, An- 

 dre' Michaux made his first journey through South Carolina and 

 started, about ten miles from Charleston, his famous botanical 

 garden, in which he cultivated both European and American 

 plants. Here Michaux is said to have first planted the tallow tree, 

 Stillingia sebifera, in the United States. It is quite possible, how- 

 ever, that Thomas Walter had already introduced this tree, since 

 his mention of it in the introduction to the Flora, dated Decem- 

 ber 30, 1787, shows his famiUarity with it; and its presence among 

 the few surviving trees in his garden when Dr. Henry W. Ravenel 

 visited the place in 1856^ would lead to the natural inference that 

 Walter had planted it there. Unless Walter had previously in- 

 troduced the tree he must have obtained his plants directly or in- 

 directly from Michaux during the few months between Michaux 's 

 arrival in Charleston and the writing of the introduction. 



Neither Andre' Michaux nor his son Francois Andre' Michaux 

 pubhshed any work relating exclusively to South Carolina but their 

 residence near Charleston and travels throughout the state have 

 made their writings particularly useful for this region. The elder 

 Michaux 's Flora Boreali-Americana, pubhshed in 1803, after his 

 death, is not in any of the libraries of Charleston, but a copy of his 

 Histoire des Chenes de I'Amerique Septentrionale, Paris, 1801, is 

 in the Charleston Library Society. This copy is inscribed: Pre- 

 sente' 'a la | Bibhotheque de la Carohne | par I'auteur | Michaux | 

 Charleston le 10 Avril | 1802. Now Michaux the elder had left 

 France in October, 1800, before the pubUcation of this work, as 



>Proc. Ell. Soc. I, 1856, p. 53. 



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