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botanic science, nor do HENNEPIN 1679, CHARLEVOIX, LAFITAN add much, 
although, they describe the common plants. In 1635, however, JACQUES PHIL- 
LIPPE CORNUT of Paris published a list of Canadian plants under the title of 
“Canadensium plantarım alierumque nondum editarum historia”. It contains 
descriptions of a very considerable number of common plants which are figured 
in admirably executed plates. Dr. SARRASIN of Quebec who sent a number 
of plants to Europe discovered the pitcher-plant in whose honor it was named 
Sarracenia by TOURNEFORT. In 1749, PETER KALM proceeded by way of 
Albany and Lake Champlain to Canada making a somewhat prolonged stay 
at Quebec, where he met Dr. GAULTHIER and discovered the plant dedicated 
to his friend, Gaultheria. The labors of Kalm gave a decided impulse to 
Canadian botany, as his collections formed so conspicuous a part of the material 
on which Linnaeus based his descriptions of American plants. Kalm was-the 
first botanist in the field and may justly be regarded as the father of Canadian 
botany. Following KALM in 1785—86, ANDRE MICHAUX, a disciple of BERNARD 
DE JUSSIEU visited America on a similar mission and in 1792 he reached 
Montreal and Quebec and proceeded to the lower St. Lawrence, Lake St. John 
and Mistassini, and thence towards Hudson Bay. On this trip, he determined 
the northern limit of a number of North American forest trees. His notes 
and collections served as the basis of his Flora Boreali-Americana which 
was published by the eminent botanist CLAUDE Louis RICHARD in 1803 with 
descriptions of 1700 plants with illustrations. ARCHIBALD MENZIES was the 
first English naturalist to enter the field of botanic collections in Canada and 
although he published nothing of importance yet his collections were important 
to the science, FREDERICK PURSH made extensive collections in Canada, 
chiefly in the province of Quebec, but all the material thus accumulated was 
subsequently destroyed by fire, prior to his death which occurred at Montreal 
in 1820. The botanic collections of Dr. A. F. HoLMEs, Tırus SMITH, JOHN 
GOLDIE, Davın DoUGLAs (1824), BACHELOT DE LA PYLaıE stimulated great 
scientific activity and for the first time the names of W. J. and J. D. HOOKER, . 
as also of ROBERT BROWN, become permanently connected with the history 
of Canadian botany. Within the same period was a somewhat remarkable 
advance in botanic science in the United States the results of which was an 
important influence exerted on Canadian botany. In 1828 NUTTALL’s Genera 
of North American plants appeared to be followed in 1842 by his important 
supplement to the work of the younger MICHAUX on the North American Sylva. 
The names of W. P. BARTON, JOHN TORREY, PARRY are incidentally associated 
with the northern flora. In 1840 WILLIAM JACKson HooKER published his 
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great work Flora Boreali-Americana and in it recorded all the knowledge of 2 
species and their distribution obtained by the early travellers and explorers, 
such as ROSS, FRANKLIN, BEECHY and the officers of the Hudson Bay Company. 
TORREY and GRAY in the same year published their work on the Flora of 
North America which included the Polypetalae only. Three years later the 
Gamopetalae to the end of the Compositae was published by the same authors = 
