England: "The doctor [Andrew Turnbull] carries home some 

 packages of East Florida plants, which you will see. I shall be 



tree, and what you call that herb whose leaves look like the 

 Fern Osmund Royal, while its seeds are large red berries in a 



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The specimens are said to have reached Princess of Wales 

 Garden at Kew, England, in 1768. There they came to the 

 notice of William Alton.' The interest once aroused continued 

 for several years, as will be seen by the following quotations. 

 A few years later Alexander Garden writing to Linnaeus, said: 

 "In the same parcel with the fishes, I have sent, for yourex- 



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