222 Orchides from the Cape of Good Hope. 



Plate III. Fig. 3. Corycium oroeaxchoidks. 

 CoRYCiUM orobanchoides, kaves linear, distichous, casque with 



a double spur. 

 Corycium orobanchoides. Swartz in Act. Holm. 1800. p. 22-2. 



Idem in Schroder s Neu£s Journal, v. 1. 43. Willd. Sp. PI. 



4. 60. Tkunb. Flor. Cap. 1. 99. 

 Satyriura orobanchoides. Thunb. Prod. 6. Linn. Suppl. 402. 



None of the above three species have ever been represented 

 by any figure, previous to those now published ; nor does any 

 plant of them appear to have been introduced into any European 

 garden. Dried samples of all of them are contained in the 

 Banksian Herbarium. 



Art. IV. A Letter on the Antiquities of the Western 

 Parts of the State of New-York, addressed to the Honour- 

 able Samuel L. Mitch ill, a Vice President of the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society of Nexc-York, Profes- 

 sor of Natural History in the University of the State, S)C. 

 S)C. Communicated by Siu Gilbeut Blane, Bart. 



[AS the process of cultivation extinguishes the remains of antiquities 

 mentioneJ in this memoir, the view of the writer, in publishing it, is to 

 awaken inquiry to a subject of great importance, before the means of 

 investigation are entirely lost.] 



Sir, 

 Bacon describes antiquities, " history defaced, or some rem- 

 nants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of 

 time, tanquam tabula naufracjii, when industrious persons, by 

 exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monu- 

 ments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and 

 evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern 

 not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the 

 deluge of time." The antiquities of our country have always ap- 

 peared to me more important and to deserve more attention than 

 they have heretofore received. We have indeed no written au- 

 thorities or documents to recur to, except the ancient French and 



