no The Life and Writings of 



of avenues. The single exception, which is impor 

 tant, is the first, or almost the first, list of Kentucky 

 plants, published by Doctor Henry McMurtrie, in his 

 &quot; Sketches of Louisville&quot;, in 1819.* This volume con 

 tains an appendix called &quot; The Florula Louisvillensis sive 

 Plantarum Catalogus vicinitate urbis, Henrico M*&amp;gt; Murtrie, 

 M, /?.,&quot; and comprises pages 207-230. The name of 

 Rafinesque nowhere is mentioned in connection with 

 this catalogue, though he was credited with lists of the 

 shell-fish and the fishes given on pages 62-66. But a 

 writer in the Western Review and Miscellaneous Maga 

 zine, Volume II, page 90, speaking of the list of plants 

 as &quot;a pretended view, of the vegetables of that section 

 of the country&quot;, states that McMurtrie was indebted to 

 Rafinesque for the names and classification of his plant 

 list! Certain it is that the list contains some of the 

 Rafinesquian genera, and thus shows some acquaintance 

 with Rafinesque s work on Kentucky plants, very little 

 of which had been published at that date. 



* Sketches | of | Louisville | and its Environs; | including among a great 

 variety of Miscellaneous Matter, a | Florula Louisvillensis; | or, A Catalogue 

 of | nearly 400 genera and 600 species of Plants, that grow in the vicinity 

 of | the Town, exhibiting their Generic, Specific and | Vulgar English 



Names. | By H. McMurtrie, M. D., etc. | . . . | | To Which is Added | an 



appendix, | Containing an accurate Account of the Earthquakes experienced 

 here from | the i6th December, 1811, to the 7th February, 1812, extracted 



prin- | cipally from the Papers of the late J. Brookes, Esq., | | First 



Edition. | | Louisville, | Printed by S. Penn, prin. Main-Street | 1819. 



