272 Dr. Hooker on American Botany. 
have received an <onetd kind reception and much valuable 
information from Bartra 
1802, Mr. Pursh I i d the charge of the extensive gar- 
dens of Ww. Hamilton, Esq. called the sie which hav- 
ing, immediately previous, been under the charge of Mr. 
Lyon, an Englishman, and an eminent collector, were found 
to hes enriched with a number of new and valuable plants ; 
and Mr. Pursh affirms, that through Mr. Lyon’s means, more 
rare and novel plants have been introduced from thence to 
Europe than through any other channel whatever. The her- 
barium, as well as the living collection of Lyon, was of great 
use to Mr. wars 3 and the plants aescribed by him, from spe- 
arco m the Pacific Ocean towards the United 
ah A fart — extensive herbarium had been formed 
by the mne expedition on the ascent towards the Rocky 
and among the chains of the Northern Andes; 
but gies was lost, in consequence of the inability to carry it 
heyond a certain point. 
Another set of specimens to which Mr. Pursh had free ac- 
cess, was that belonging to Mr. Ensley, a German naturalist, 
who had been sent out to America by Prince Lichtenstein. 
It was particularly sc in the vegetable productions of Lower 
Louisiana and Georg 
ram, which ripened into an uncommon fipndshin and continued 
webat the least abatement anti pie cise by the hand of death. Here 
it was that Wilson found himself translated, if we may so speak, into a 
: he was now a to. 
whom the experience of a long life, speie in trayel and rural retirement, 
had rendered qualified to teach. Mr. Bartram soon perceived the bent 
of his friend’s mind, and its congeniality tohis own, and took pints pains 
to encourage him in a Stats, which, while it expands the faculties and 
“purifies the heart, i et leads to the contemplation of the “ 
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