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SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
MYRTACE. 
Eugenia buxifolia was discovered in San Domingo by the Swedish botanist Swartz,’ and was first 
noticed in the United States on Key West by Dr. J. L. Blodgett. 
1 Olof Swartz (1760-1818) was born at Norrképing in Sweden, 
and at the age of eighteen was sent to the University of Upsal, 
where he studied natural history under the younger Linneus. In 
1783, after the preparation of his Dissertatio de Methodo Muscorum 
and his account of Gentiana pulchella, he left Sweden with the view 
of improving himself by foreign travel. Having spent a year in 
North America, he visited the West Indies, where he remained 
for two years studying the vegetation of the tropics and gather- 
ing botanical specimens, chiefly in San Domingo. In 1786 Swartz 
returned to Sweden by way of England, and four years later was 
made president of the Academy of Stockholm and a professor in 
the Burgian Agricultural Institution, where he devoted the remain- 
der of his life to the study of botany and the elaboration and pub- 
lication of his large West Indian collections. In his Genera et 
Species Orchidearum Swartz established upon fixed principles several 
new genera of orchids, adding many new tropical American species 
to this family, which by him was first elaborated in a comprehen- 
sive manner. He was the author of a number of classical works on 
the West Indian flora, in which the first descriptions of many genera 
and species are found. He paid particular attention to the study 
of cryptogamic plants, especially Mosses, and published a manual 
of the Swedish species in 1799. He was the author of a Synopsis 
Filicum, published in 1806, in which seven new genera are distin- 
guished ; and he is said to have discovered in the neighborhood of 
Stockholm alone three hundred species of Lichens new to the flora 
of Sweden. Swartzia, a genus of noble tropical American trees of 
the Pea family, was dedicated to him by Willdenow. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Puate CCVI. EvuGeEniA BUXIFOLIA. 
A flower, enlarged. 
OHARA WD 
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. A seed, enlarged. 
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bo 
. Diagram of a flower. 
A stamen, enlarged. 
A flowering branch, natural size. 
Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 
. A flower, the petals and stamens removed, enlarged. 
. An ovule, much magnified. 
. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
. Vertical section of a fruit, enlarged. 
. A fruit cut transversely, enlarged. 
. An embryo, enlarged. 
