Nov. igo2. Flora of the Island of St. Croix — Millspaugh. 451 



Lit.: Vahl. Eel. Praef. ; Warm, in Bot. Tidsskr. Kopenh. XII 

 (1880), p. 82; Kia^rsk. 1. c. XXIII (1900), p. 45, 46; Pritz. Thes. II 

 ed., p. 344; Urb. Symb. I, p. 173, 174-176. 



1796-? Pflug, Dr., collected on St. Croix during the closing years of 

 the eighteenth century for Prof. Vahl of Copenhagen, who dis- 

 covered a number of new species among his plants. He died 

 before 1797 on St. Croix while still a young man. 

 Coll.: Herb. Vahl in Bot. Museum, Copenhagen; some also in 



St. Petersburg. 



Lit.: Vahl Eclog. I (1797) praef. 



1797. Ledru, Andre Pierre (1761-1825), born at Chantenay, Dept. 

 Sarthe, near Nantes (France), January 22, 1761, an ecclesiastic 

 ' in calling, accompanied as botanist the expedition of Captain 

 Boudin to the West Indies. The expedition sailed from Havre 

 at the end of September, 1796, was detained almost six months 

 on the Canaries, made Trinidad in eight days without having had 

 much opportunity for collecting, and remained on St. Thomas 

 from April 29 until July 16, 1797. From here he made a twelve- 

 day side trip to St. Croix, where he botanized in company with 

 West. From July 17, 1797, until April 13, 1798, was spent mak- 

 ing an investigation of the northern and northeastern parts of 

 Porto Rico, which, like St. Thomas, yielded a rich collection of 

 living and dried plants, and fruits al^o. On his return he became 

 Professeur de Legislation in the Ecole Centrale de la Sarthe in 

 Le Mans, founded a botanical garden, and wrote numerous works 

 on local history, biography and art. He died in Le Mans July 

 II, 1825. 



Coll.: Herb. Jussieu and General Herbarium of the Paris 

 Museum, about 900 species in 8,000 sheets, some also in Herb. 

 Lamarck of the same Museum; duplicates in the Berlin Museum (ex- 

 Herb. Kunth.), Krug et Urban, Florenz (Herb. Webb. ex-Herb. Des- 

 fontaines), Montpellier (ex-Herb. Cambess.). The labels are not 

 always reliable; a large number of the St. Thomas plants undoubtedly 

 come from Porto Rico, and some San Domingo plants have also 

 become admixed. Ledru's private herbarium is in the Municipal 

 Museum of Le Mans. 



Lit: W. B. Hemsl. Bot. Chall. Exp. (1884), p. 5,6; Sir Jos. D. 

 Hooker in Proc. of the Royal Geogr. Soc. XIII (1891), p. 1 15-122; 

 R. H. Vetch in Diet. Nat. Biogr. XXXII (1892), p. 399-404; Cat. Sc. 

 Pap. Ill, p. 930, X, p. 552; Urb. Symb. I, p. 95. 



1817-48. Benzon, Peder Eggert (1788-1848), son of Rev. L. J. 

 Benzon, born at Vestenskov on the island of Laaland (Denmark) 

 October 27, 1788, passed his pharmaceutical examinations in 

 1814, went to Christiansted, St. Croix, as pharmacist in 1817, 

 later became assessor of pharmacy at that place, and in 184S 

 returned to Copenhagen, where he died on July 24, shortly after 

 his arrival. He collected chiefly on St. Croix, but also on St. 

 John and St. Thomas. 



