Floristic work. — West Indies. 35 
ALFARO, JUAN J. CoOPER, and Bishop BERNARDO AusvsTo THIEL. GUSTAVO 
NIEDERLEIN in a pamphlet entitled The Republic of Costa Rica issued by the 
Philadelphia Commercial Museum gives an account of the character of the 
vegetation. Finally to KARL SAPPER, we owe much concerning the geology, 
physiography and plant geography of the Central American region. 
X. West Indies. 
OVIEDO was apparently the first to describe the plants of the West Indies. 
Volumes VII—XI of his Primera parte de la historia natural y general de las 
Indias, Seville 1535, deal with the vegetation of the islands then known to the 
world. Jost DE AcosTA in the fourth volume of his Historia natural y moral 
de las Indias (Seville 1590) describes the natural history of the Island of Santo 
Domingo, Mexico and Peru. CATESBY follows with the Natural History of 
Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands published in two volumes at London 
in 1731—1743. The first important works were those of Sir Hans SLOANE 
1696-1725 and of PATRICK BROWNE (1756) both on the flora of Jamaica. 
The collection of Sloane forms one of the treasures of the British Museum. 
PLUMIER’s works 1693—1760 refer chiefly to Haiti. Enumerated his works 
are these: 
Description des plantes de l’Amerique avec leurs figures. Paris 1693. 
Nova plantarım americanarım genera. Paris 1703. 
Catalogus plantarım americanarum. Paris 1703. 
Filicetum americanum. Paris 1703. 
Tractatus de filieibus americanis. Trait€ des fougeres de l’Amerique. Paris 1705 
. Botanicon americanum seu historia plantarum in Americanis insulis nascentium 8 vol. 
1697—1704. 
7. Botanographia americana, plantarıum ex America icones 3 vol. 
. Antill: insularum natur, icones bot. I vol. 
arum americanarum faseiculus primus(-decimus), continens 
Plumierius, botanieorum princeps, detexit eruitque, atque in insulis An 
primum in lucem edidit, concinnis descriptionibus et observationibus, 
Joannes Burmannus. Amstelodami 1755—1760. 
NICOLAUS J. JACQUIN published a number of works on the botany of the 
West Indian islands, viz., Enumeratio systematica plantarum in 1760 and Se- 
lectarum stirpium americanarum historia in 1763. — The name of OLOF SWARTZ 
is also prominently identified with the history of West Indian botany. He is 
best known, as the author of Nova genera et species plantarum Seu a 
dromus descriptionum vegetabilium, maximam partem incognitorum qua® er 
itinere in indiam occidentalem annis 1783—87 digessit” (1788); and ger _ 
occidentalis, etc. 3 vols. 1797—ı806. SWARTZ was in Jamaica, Haiti m = 
a few of the lesser Antilles 1784—89. ni 
Much less important are the publications of the first sixty years ” - 
nineteenth century. Tussac’s Flora Antillarum (18082 7) contains 138 color = 
plates of plants, many were collected in Haiti, others in the Island of Jamaica. 
Lunan’s Hortus Jamaicensis 1814 is a mere compilation and er 
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