THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 117 



3076 species; double the number of species contained in 

 Michaux's Flora. In the supplement, Pursh was able to 

 include a considerable number of species, collected by Brad- 

 bur}^ on the Upper Missouri, much to the discontent of 

 Nuttall, who was in that region at the same time, and who, 

 indeed, partly and imperfectly anticipated Pursh in certain 

 cases, through the publication, by the Frazers, of a cata- 

 logue of the plants collected by Nuttall. 



Pursh returned to America, settling in Canada, intend- 

 ing to continue his studies of the North American Flora, 

 but he died at Montreal June 11, 1820, aged 46 years. "^ 



BERNARD M'MAHON. 



Bernard M'Mahon f was born in Ireland circa 1775, 

 of good birth and fortune. He was obliged to leave Ireland 

 on account of his connection with one of the unsuccessful 

 rebellions, arriving in America in 1796. He settled in 

 Philadelphia, where, in 1809, he founded a botanic garden, 

 which he named Upsal, partly situated on ground near 

 the yards of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad at 

 Huntingdon Station, Philadelphia.! M'Mahon was one of 

 the first successful gardeners of the United States, and was 

 a man of education, and devoted to his profession. He 

 enjoyed the friendship of Jefferson and other distinguished 

 Americans, and it is supposed that the arrangement for 



* His grave in the cemetery at Montreal was marked by admiring scientists 

 The Gardener's Monthly (Meelian's), XXVI, p. 318. 



t See Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography (1888). 

 Sargent— iS'iif/'a of North America, VII : 86. 



j His grand-daughter informed Dr. G. B. Keen, librarian Pennsylvania Histor- 

 ical Society, that the garden was located at the junction of Germantown Road and 

 Township line, being now incorporated in Fotterall Square, at 11th and Cumberland 

 Streets. 



