164 SOME AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANISTS 



The people of Apalachicola hope some day to 

 erect a suitable monument over Chapman in their 

 city graveyard ; but the perishable flower is more 

 enduring, and, if the ghostly sponsor, with unim- 

 pressioning feet, should tread again these earthly 

 fields, his spirit will be sufficiently gratified to 

 find his work marked " rare " in the antiquarian's 

 catalogue. 



