HISTORICAL SKETCH. 15 



Botanists. They were chiefly found by foreign 

 travellers, collectors or gardeners and sent to 

 Europe. Kalm, Kin, Noisette, Kingston, Drum- 

 mond, Lyons, Bradbury &.c found many such 

 in their remote explorations, and so have I. 

 Whoever therefore neglects my discoveries is 

 either jealous of them, or unable to distinguish 

 plants. But careless Botanists are often blind to 

 disparities and overlook those rare species, I 

 did so myself once and deemed with Muhlen- 

 berg that 15 species of our Lactucas were all 

 L. elongata ! thus blending and overlooking 

 distinct sp. So they do to this day,and then they 

 say they cant see them ! 



NORTH AMERICAN NEOPHYTON. 



I shall dedicate the second part of this flora 

 to describe some of my most remarkable New 

 Herbaceous Plants either new Genera or new 

 Species, reserving the new Trees and Shrubs 

 for the New Sylva of the third part. They 

 shall be enumerated at random rather than by 

 monographs, as I shall refer to them in my fu- 

 ture Monographs and natural arrangement. I 

 possess specimens of the whole, and they are 

 all figured in my Autikon and Icones rariorum 

 by those numbers here employed. 

 ^ 201. ODOGLOSSA Raf. meaning toothed 

 ligule. A new Genus near to Coreopsis and 

 Vernasolis, but differing by the neutral rays, 

 and male floscules mixt in the disk. 



Perianthe double, both octophylous, the in- 

 ternal colored. Phoranthe convex, chaffs seta- 

 ceous and few. Rays 8 neutral, rudiment of 

 Ovary linear bidentate, tube flat imperforate, 



