286 Catalogue of Plants gro7oing in East-Florida. 

 BOTANY. 



Art. XII. — ./3 Catalogue of a collection of Plants made in. 

 Ensi-Florida, during the monthi> of Ortobcr and .h^ov em- 

 ber, 182!. Bij A. Ware, Esq. — By Thos. Nutxall. 



The very imperfect knowledge which we yet possess of 

 the vegetable productions of Florida, and more particularly 

 that part of it now recently ceded to the United States, ren- 

 ders any additional information acceptable, however incom- 

 plete The first enterprising naturalist who visited this de- 

 lif^'iitfully temperate r* gion, was our venerable friend Mr. 

 William Bartram, of Kingsessing, but unfortunately for sci- 

 ence, his collections have been consigned (o oblivion, though 

 still, tb.jlieve, existing in the Banksian herbarium. Doctor 

 Fothergill, his patron, being rather an amateur than a snc- 

 cesoful cultivator of natural science, never brought forward 

 the result of iVlr. Bartram's labours. 



The nelt scientilic traveller who visited Florida, was the 

 indefatigable Andre Michaux, who did mdeed describe a 

 few of the peculiar plants of this country ; his accoumt, 

 however, is extremely limited, and many of the most re- 

 markable productions men;ioned by Bartram are unaccount- 

 ably overlooked or peglected. 



The interesting fas-jiculus now collected by Mr. Ware, 

 though made at an unfavourable season of the year, indi- 

 cates the existence of a rich and varied Flora, and of a cli- 

 mate almost congenial to the cultivation of every important 

 commercial production of the tropics. 



We have given the collection as we found it, and enume- 

 rated those plants which are common as well as those which 

 are new or rare, considering the whole as important, at least 

 in a physical and geographical point of view. 



Since Mr. Ware's visit to this country we have been 

 credibly informed of the discovery of the common Fig, the 

 Plantain {musa paradisiaca,) and the Bamboo cane, [Bam- 

 bos arundinacea,) near the shores of east Florida, to the 

 south of the 28th degree of latitude. In another small col- 

 lection I have also seen a species of Tournefortia. 



