JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ARNOLD ARBORETUM 



Volume IV JANUARY, 1923 Number 1 



MICHAUX'S EARLIEST NOTE ON AMERICAN PLANTS 



Alfred Rehder 



In the year 1792 a note by A. Michaux on some rare and new plants of 



critical 



409-419 



MM 



*ck, Bruguiere, Olivier, Haiiy et Pelletier." This journal 

 which was discontinued after volume II. seems to be very rare and Mi- 

 chaux's note has been therefore generally overlooked and neglected; only 

 part of the new names are found in the Index Kewensis and only a few of 

 them are mentioned in monographs and publications on American plants 

 even when it had been the intention of the author to give a complete 

 enumeration of synonyms. As Michaux's note, which is interesting as 

 one of the earlier publications on American plants, is at present not ac- 

 cessible to the majority of American botanists, an exact reprint of the 

 comparatively short article may follow here with the omission of the 

 remarks of Lamarck on Michaux's activities as collector and traveler: 



p. 409 Notice de quelques plantes rares ou nouvelles observes dans 



l'Am^rique Septentrionale, par M. A. Michaux; adress^e k la 

 Soci6t6 d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris par l'auteur; et r6dig6e, 

 avec des observations. 



Par M. Lamarck. 

 Plantes remarqu6es en Am£rique. 



Monandrie. 



1. Canna Flava. Cette plante habite les bords des rivi&res 



en G6orgie et en Floride. 



Diandric 



2. Pinguicula Lutea. 



3. Pinguicula Violacea. 



Ces deux esp£ces n'ont pas 6t£ decrites, et se trouvent 



dans la Caroline. 



4. Salvia azurea. Nouvelle sauge de six pieds de haut. 



On la trouve sur les rives de la riviere Sainte-Marie, en 

 G6orgie. 



