RHIZOPHORACEA. 
SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 17 
appears to have been first recorded in the Histoire de la Louisiane by Le Page du Pratz,’ published 
in Paris in 1755.? 
different from all other Trees in the manner of their growth ; for 
from their branches hang innumerable small filaments growing 
downwards, till they touch the Earth, and then take Root.” (Grif- 
fith Hughes, Nat. Hist. Barbados, 2.) 
1 Le Page du Pratz, a native of Holland, having served in Ger- 
many with the French army through several campaigns, emigrated 
to Louisiana in 1718 to take possession of a grant of land in the 
neighborhood of New Orleans which he had received from the 
Later he established himself at Natchez and 
subsequently explored portions of the country west of the Missis- 
French government. 
sippi River now included in the states of Arkansas, Missouri, and 
Texas. He returned to France in 1734 and twenty-eight years 
later published his Histoire de la Louisiane, in which are described 
the topography and natural history of the regions visited by the 
author and the habits of the Indians. 
ber of illustrations are devoted to the trees of Louisiana, which he 
He died in 1775. 
2 «Le Manglier est tres-commun dans toute l’Amérique ; il croit 
Three chapters and a num- 
appears to have studied with special care. 
& la Louisiane dans le voisinage de la Mer sur le bord des eaux 
mortes. II est plus nuisible qu’utile, en ce qu’il veut de la bonne 
terre, qu’il en occupe beaucoup, & que ses racines qui s’étendent 
dans l’eau empéchent l’abordage & ceux qui navigent, & donnent 
une retraite sfire aux Poissons contre les travaux & l’adresse des 
Pécheurs.” (Histoire de la Louisiane, ii. 41.) 
