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SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



CAPPARIDACE^E. 



Massachusetts ; received a medical diploma at Pittsfield ; moved 

 to Oliio in 1834, and then, in search of a milder climate, to Mobile, 

 Alabama ; was appointed physician and surgeon of the Mississippi 

 and Louisiana Colonization Society engaged in the removal of lib- 

 erated slaves to Liberia, where he remained dm-ing two years. 

 Keturning to America, Dr. Blodgctt settled, in DecembcFj 1838, 

 in Key West, where he established himself as a physician and 

 drui'rist, and where he continued to reside until nearly the time of 



his death, which occurred in Amherst, Dr. Blodgctt is the first 

 botanist who explored the flora of the south Florida keys ■ his col 

 lections were communicated to Torrey and to Nuttall who pub- 

 lished several of the trees in his continuation of Michaus's Sylva in 

 1842, His collections of seaweeds, in which he became specially 

 interested in the last years of his life, were sent to Dr. W. H, Har- 

 vey of Dublin, author of the Nereis Boreali-Amertcana. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 



Plate XIX. Capfaris Jamaicexsis. 



1. A flowering branch, natural size. 



2. A fruiting branch, natural size. 



3. Diagram of a flower, 



4. A flow^er, the petals and all but one stamen removed, showing 



the glands at the base of the sepals, natural size, 



5. An anther, posterior view, enlarged. 



6. An anther, anterior view, enlarged. 



7. Vertical section of an ovary, enlarged. 



8. An ovule, much enlarged, 



9- Vertical section of a portion of a fruit, enlarged- 



10. Vertical section of a seed, enlarged, 



11. An embryo, much enlarged, 



12. An epidermal scale, much enlarged. 



