Part 
History and Literature of the Botanic Works and Explorations 
of the North American Continent, 
Chapter I. History. 
$1. Floristie Work. 
The botanic history of. North America has never been written. The 
information, therefore, is fragmentary and often published in an inaccessible 
form. This chapter will be devoted, therefore, to a brief, but comprehensive, 
account of the most important explorations that have made botanic collection 
and study a special feature, and to a mention of the principal monographs, 
Manuals, papers and pamphlets which have appeared on the North American 
flora in general and North American phytogeography in particular. For facility 
nm treatment and also for the purpose of classification the following broad 
atrangement will be föollowed in presenting the historic facts which concern 
this chapter with the following broad classification of material according to 
geography: I. Canada, II. New England, IH. Middle Atlantic States, IV. South- 
eastern States, V. Prairies, Arid Plains and Rocky Mountains including Great 
Basin, VI. Pacific Coast, VII. Great Southwest, VIII. Mexico, IX. Central America, 
X. West Indies. 
Because several of the large scientific expeditions were transcontinental, 
ne IS impossible therefore, to make a strict geographic classification of the 
historic material. In the following account, therefore, such expeditions are 
mentioned in connection with the region with which they were most pro- 
Minently identified. 
I. Canada. 
Passing over the explorations and an account of the voyages of JACQUES 
Eule 1534, CHAMPLAIN 1608, LA SALLE 167982, LA HONTAN 1703, 
new DIERVILLE, who visited the coast of America in 1706 and carrie 
ir to France a number of plants which were submitted to TOURNEFORT, wor 
etrat N one. plant to its discoverer DIERVILLE. MACKENZIE in 19 Br 
ed the heart of British North America, but he contributed nothing = | 
Harshberger, Survey N.-America, I 
