163 
ie = Carolina in 1788.1 Just after the a of the 
last century, John Drayton,? a resident of South Carolina, 
refer ae to the plant as follows: MDwalt olmetto (Corypha 
pumila) grows in swampy land, which is generally dry; situated 
at the head of fresh water set, in the low country. It also 
grows on the Sea Islands. 
Fifteen years passed, a our little received another 
name. André Michaux‘ in apres it in 18035 gave it the 
name of Chamaerops acaulis. At this roi . we must go back 
ing when considered as the work of a solitary student it in an isolated field, 
2 John baie wa! 2 ne meee leston, South Caroli 
e was only twelve years old at the pies of his father, then chief justice 
ft He studied law, an admitted to -one, 
saaaene g n y in Charleston until 1794. He was a member o} 
e state constitutional convention in 1790, and thereafter, for more than 
thirty years, - was a ost continuously in public service. ome years 
f tk 1799, lieutenant- 
governor; from 1800 to 1802, governor; from 1803 to 1808, state senator; 
in 1809 and 1810, governor for a second term; and from 1812 until his death 
in 1822, judge of the United States oa for the district of South Carolina. 
He died at Charleston, 27 November, 22. His book entitled oA view of 
South Carolina bl 
plants of the state. His most impor tant botanical work, however, was never 
published; it was an English translation of Walter's “Flora Colnaaa 
with additions from Walter’s original memorandum book and other sources. 
Two copies of this manuscript, one dated 1798, the other ee are preserve 
in South Cacti libraries. —. 
: w outh Carolina 66. 
4André Michaux born 746, at Satory, near Versailles. 
s the basi 
ous edit rship of oo Claude aoe eres a 34-1821 1) in 1803. 
Fren ri 
of 1800-05, had 
5 Flora Boreali- peer 1:2 
