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fuming to decide, whether they are the exdulive growth 

 of North America : the determination of this point is the 

 province of botany. 



TriUium Erectum. 

 Furaaria Ciicullaria. 



A fpecies of Dracontinm,with leaves like theCannalndica. 

 Uvularia Perfoliata. 

 Heuchera Americana. 

 Mimulus Luteus, a Peruvian plant. 

 A fpecies of Rubus, probably a variety of the Rubus 

 Idaeus, but with larger berries^ and a large laciniated 

 red calyx. 



None of thefe plants are found in Kamtchatka, or in 

 any of the neighbouring, iflands *.- 



■* According to Mr. Pallas, the plants of the new-difcovered iflands 

 are moftly alpine, like thofe of Siberia ; this he attributes to the fliort- 

 nefs and coldnefs of the fummer, occafioned by the frequency of the 

 North winds. His words are : '* Quoique les hivres de ces ifles foient 

 alTez temperes par I'air de la mer, de fafon que les neiges ne couvrent 

 jamais la terre que par intervalles, la plupart des plantes y font alpines^. 

 comma en Siberie, par la raifon que I'ete yeft tout auffi-courte et froide, 

 a caufe des vents de nord qui y regnent." This pafTage is taken from a 

 MS treatife in the French language, relative to the new-difcovered iflands 

 communicated to me by my very learned and ingenious friend Mr. Pallas, 

 profelTor of natural hiflory at St. Peterfburg; from which I have been 

 enabled to colleft a confiderable degree of information. This treatife was- 

 fent to Monf. Buffon ; and that celebrated naturalift has made great ufe 

 of it in the fifth volume of his Supplement a I'Hifloire Naturelle. 



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