1 90 The Life and Writings of 



The second part has the following: 



(118) Chronological Index of the principal Botanical Works and 



Discoveries published by C. S. Rafinesque. pp. 33-37. 



(119) Index of the Florula Mandanensis of Bradbury* and Rafin 



esque, published in 1817 and in 1820, with Notes and addi 

 tions, pp. 37-41. 



(120) Monograph of the Species of G. Samolus, in my Herbarium. 



pp. 41-43. 



(121) Genus Cypripedium. pp. 43, 44. 



(122) Genus Spiranthes. pp. 44, 45. 



* John Bradbury, born August 20, 1768, died 1823. The grave of this famous 

 botanist is in the cemetery at Middletown, near Louisville. This naturalist 

 made a journey up the Missouri river, two thousand nine hundred miles 

 above New Orleans, in 1811. Extensive collections of plants were made; of 

 these some were shipped to England, with the intention of describing the 

 rarer forms. But it appears that his confidence was violated and the collec 

 tions were submitted, in advance of his return, &quot;to a person of the name of 

 Pursh, who has published the most interesting of my plants in an appendix 

 to the Flora America Septentrionalis&quot; (1814.) Bradbury published in his 

 book.t &quot;Travels in the Interior of America, in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811,&quot; 

 on pp. 335-338, a catalogue of the more rare and valuable plants found. This 

 I have carefully compared with the list which Rafinesque gives in his Florula 

 Mandanensis, but only very few are the same. There is here an interesting 

 matter connected with these plants; were the names given by Rafinesque be 

 stowed upon plants already named by Bradbury? or did Rafinesque publish 

 first and anticipate the names assigned by Pursh ? In any event there is very 

 little evidence that Rafinesque used the Bradbury list, as he did those of 

 Robin and Darby! 



t Travels | in The Interior of America, | in the | years 1809, 1810, and 1811 ; | including | A 

 Description of Upper Louisiana, | together with | The States of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, | and 

 Tennessee, | with the | Illinois and western Territories, | and containing | Remarks and Obser 

 vations | useful to | Persons emigrating to those countries. | | By John Bradbury, F. L- S. 



London, | Corresponding Member of the Liverpool Philosophical Society and Honorary Member 

 of | the Literary and Philosophical Societies, New York, United States, America. | = \ Liver 

 pool : | Printed for the author, | By Smith and Galway, | and published by Sherwood, Neely, 

 and Jones, London. | | 1817. (8vo, pp. 1-12 [Errata], 9-364.) 



