142 Natural Histoiy. 



iissonierre/ Kalm/ Cornutus/ Wangenheim.j 

 Schoepf/ and Walter;'^ and by our respectable 

 countrymen, Clayton/ Bartram/ Golden/ 

 Muhlenberg/ Marshall/ Barton/ and Cut- 



After having discovered many new genera and species, he returned to 

 England, about the year 1748. He transmitted not only to his country- 

 men, but also to LiNNTEUS, much valuable information respecting Ameri- 

 can plants. The great Svsredish botanist viewed him with so much respect, 

 that he took care to perpetuate his name, by giving it to an American plant, 

 the M'ltchella Rcpens. 



z The Marquis de la Gallissionerre, who, about the middle of the 

 century, was Governor of Canada. He explored the natural history of that 

 country wich great industry, and returned to France laden with botanical 

 riches. — Kalm's Travels. 



a A Swedish botanist, who was sent, in 1748, to America, for the pur-- 

 pose of discovering and collecting plants. After remaining between two 

 and three years in our country, and collecting many new plants, in which 

 pursuit he travelled through Pennsylvania, Neiv-yersey, Nezv-Tork, and 

 Canada, he returned to Sweden. See his Travels^ translated by Forster, 

 a vols. 8vo. '772. 



b Canadens. Plant. Historia. 



c Wangenheim and Schoepf were two botanists who came to Ame- 

 rica, with the German troops, during the late revolutionary war. Their 

 works on American plants, though by no means entitled to a place in the 

 first class of botanical publications, are yet of considerable value. 



d Thomas Walter, a planter oi South-Carolina, who ^uhYishcd, in 1788, 

 Flora Caroliniana, a work of respectable character. 



e Dr. Clayton, " a native and resident of Virginia. This accurate 

 observer passed a long life in exploring and describing the plants of his 

 country; and is supposed to have enlarged the botanical catalogue as much 

 as any man who ever lived." Notes on Virginia. Clayton's Flora Vir- 

 ginica appears to have been first published about the year 1 743. It was 

 afterwards republished by Gronovius, at Leyden, in 176a. — It holds a 

 very important station in the liistory of botany. 



J' Travels. 



g Cadwallader Colden, Esq. Lieutenant-Governor of the Province 

 ®f New-York, who was before mentioned. He had a great fondness for 

 botanical studies. He made very valuable communications of American 

 plants to LiNNiEUS, especially those which appear under the title of Planta 

 Cold^nhamenses, in the Acta Upsalensia, for I 743 and 1 744; and his name 

 is mentioned frequently, and with great respect, in the Species Plantamm of 

 that distinguished botanist. This gentleman's daughter. Miss Colden, 

 was also fond of botany, and corresponded with Linnjeus; who, in honour 

 of one or both of them, in his Flora Zeylanica, gave to a plant of the Tetran- 

 drous class, the name of Coldenca. Stoever's Life of Litincsus, and Pulte- 

 Ney's Sketches. 



b Index Flora Lancastriensis. Vols. ill. and iv. of the Transactions of tbs 

 American Philosophical Society. 



i Arbustru7n Amcricanum, 8vo. 1785' 



j Collections for an Essay toivards a Materia Medica of the United States» 

 and other publications. Dr. Barton has also a larger work on botany 

 BOW in the press, of which high expectations are formed. 



