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much remains still unexplored. To Catesby we are in- 

 debted for some drawings, and but imperfect descrip- 

 tions of plants and flowers, Bartram in his travels 

 through the State in 1776 has added some particulars 

 to botanical information. Walter in his ''Flora Caro- 

 liniana" has brought forward a still greater catalogue ; 

 not, however, without being suspected of stating differ- 

 ent species where varieties only existed. And Michaux, 

 in a work which he has lately published at Paris, has 

 added valuable information respecting the history of 

 American oaks. From these sources, and some others 

 which present themselves, the following indigenous 

 plants may be noted as flourishing within the boun- 

 daries of this State." 



He devotes twenty-four pages of the "A View of 

 South Carolina" to a ''Botanical Catalogue of the most 

 remarkable plants, shrubs and trees, indigenous to the 

 State of South Carolina." The succeeding three pages 

 are given to the "Exotic plants." Proportionately lit- 

 tle space applies to the fauna; this is comprised in a 

 list of animals only four pages in length. 



But the work which makes Drayton worthy of men- 

 tion among the botanists of our State is "The Carolin- 

 ian Florist," an unpublished work dated 1807, the 

 manuscript of which is to be found in the library of the 

 University of South Carolina. This is in the form of a 

 book bound in Russia leather and containing 307 pages. 

 It follows very closely in English the "Flora Carolin- 

 iana" of Thomas Walter, which was written in Latin. 

 A clearer insight into the nature of the work can be 

 obtained from a reprint of the exact title and the letter 

 which it contains, addressed to the trustees of South 

 Carolina College. 



" 'The Carolinian Florist,' in which upwards of one 

 thousand plants are mentioned, and the places of 

 growth and times of flowering of many of them are 

 ascertained. 



VBy John Drayton, author of 'Letters Written During 

 a Tour Through the Northern and Eastern States of 



