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and by Clayton*, Bartram-f, ColdenJ, Muh- 

 lenberg §, Marshall II, Barton^, and Cutler** ; and 

 the plants of different portions of South America^ 

 by Plumier, Aublet, mad. Merian, dqn Ruiz, don 

 Pavon, and others ; and of the South-Sea Islands^ 

 by the indefatigable Dr. Forster, whose Nova Ge- 

 nera Plantarum may be considered as one of the 



* Dr. Clayton, '^ a native and resident of Virginia. This ac- 

 curate observer passed a long life in exploring and describing th« 

 plants of his country; and is supposed to have enlarged the bota- 

 nical catalogue as much as any man who ever lived." Notes on 

 Virgijiia. — Clayton's Flora Virginica appears to have been first 

 published about the year 1743. It was afterwards republished by 

 Gronovius, at Leyden, in 1762. It holds ^ very important sta* 

 tion in the history of botany. 



f See Additional Notes — (A A.) 



X Cadwallader Colden, esq., lieutenant-governor of the province 

 of New York, who was before mentioned. He had a great fond- 

 ness for botanical studies. He made very valuable communica- 

 tions of American plants to Linnaeus, especially those \vhich ap- 

 pear under the title of Plantce Coldenhamenses, m the Acta Up- 

 salmsia, for 1743 and 1744; and his name is mentioned fre- 

 quently, and with great respect, in the Species Plantarum of that 

 diotingi^iished botanist. This gentleman's daughter, IVIiss Colden, 

 was also fond of botany, and corresponded with Linnaeus j who, 

 in honour of one or both of them, in his Flora Zcylanica, gave to 

 a plant of tlie Tetrandrous class, the name of Coldema. — Stoever's 

 Life of Linnwus, and Pulteney's Sketches. 



§ Index Florae Lancastricnsis. Vols, iii and iy of the Trans- 

 actions of tlie American Philosophical Societi/. 



II Arbustrum Americanum, 8vo, 1785. 



% Collection for an Essay towards a Materia Medica of the 

 United Slates; and other publications. Since the close of the 

 century Dr. Barton has published an elementary work on botany, 

 which is highly honouratJp^to him. See Additional Notes — 

 (hB.) 



** An Account of some of the Vegetable Productions naturally 

 growing in Americay by Manasseh Cutler, D. D. — Memoirs of th( 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciaias, vol. i. 



