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28& Catalogue of Plants groiving in East-Florida. 



BOTANY. 



Art. XII. — A Catalogue of a collection of Plants made in 



Ens.'Florida, during the mon'.hs of October and Xovem- 



her, 1S2:. B^' A. Ware^ Esq.—Bij Thos. Nuttall. 



Thk very imperfect knowledge ■\vbicb we yet possess of 

 the vegetable produc:ions of Florida, and more particularly 

 that part of it now recently^ceded to ihe United States, ren- 

 ders any additional iniormation acceptable, however incoai- 

 plele The first enterprising naturalist who visited this de- 

 li^btfully tetiiperate region, was our venerable friend Mr. 

 Wdliaai Bavtram, of Kingsessing, but unfortui-ately for sci- 

 ence, his collections have been consigned to oblivion, though 

 stih, 1 believe, existing in the Banksian herbarium. Doctor 

 Fothergill, his patron, being rather an amateur than a suc- 

 cessful cultivator of natural science, never brought forward 

 tlie result of Mr, Bartram's labours. 



The next scieniinc traveller who visited Florida, was the 

 indefatigable Andre Michaux, who did indeed describe a 

 few of the peculiar plants of this country ; his account, 

 however, is extremely limited, and many of the most re- 

 markable productions menUoned by Bartram are unaccount- 

 ably overlooked or nedected. 



The interesting fasciculus now collected by Mr. Ware, 

 though made at an unfavourable season of the year, indi- 

 cates the existence of a rich and varied Flora, and of a cli- 

 mate almost congenial to the cultivation of every important 

 commercial production of the tropics. 



We have given the collection as we found it, and enume- 

 rated those plants which are common as well as those which 

 are new or rare, considering the whole as importantj at least 

 in a pbysiral and geographical point of view. 



Since Mr. Ware's visit to this country w^e have been 

 credibly informed of the discovery of the common Fig, the 

 Plantain [musa paradisiaca,) ^nA the, Bamboo cane, [Bam- 

 has aruadiiiacea,) near the shores of east Florida, to the 

 south of the 28th degree of latitude. In another small col- 

 lection I have also seen a species of Tournefortia. 



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