LIST OF PLANTS DISCOVERED BY JOHN FRASER. 
and used for making light elastic and dur- 
able summer hats and bonnets. Having 
. obtained a patent for this manufacture, it 
was brought out under the gracious pa- 
tronage of her late Majesty, Queen Char- 
lotte. The work was superintended by his 
sister, and he was extremely sanguine as 
to its importance to his family, but disap- 
pointment attended the speculation, and 
his persevering exertions were frustrated 
by the want of capital. 
_ A list is here subjoined of North Ame- 
rican plants, discovered and introduced by 
John Fraser, from the year 1785, taken 
from his own Hortus Siccus, in possession 
ofhis son, J. Fraser, F.L.S. and H.S., who 
was his father’s companion in all his jour- 
neys to Russia, and in the two last of his 
expeditions to North America and the West 
ies, After the decease of Mr. Fraser, 
senior, this son proceeded to North Ame- 
nca, with a view to form a collection of 
plants, and in 1817 returned- to England, 
bringing several choice new species, and a 
large selection of the more desirable kinds, 
gathered chiefly in the southern states, 
i having extended his researches further 
South than his father, in East Florida. 
These collections he disposed of on his 
Teturn, by public sale, after which he form- 
ed à respectable nursery or botanical esta- 
“shment in Kent, called the Hermitage, 
near Ramsgate, and having last year (1835) 
retired from business, he was succeeded 
by Mr. Wm. Curtis, son of Mr. S. Curtis, 
of Glazenwood, Essex, the proprietor and 
Publisher of the Botanical Magazine, as 
Well as of the original work in which this 
ef memoir now appears. 
To Mr. J . Fr 
beautif, 
m; EUM by the great skill of our 
P orticulturists, those ** Makers of 
hie end The description, accompanied 
j sentation of the original species, 
ound on referring to Curtis's Bota- 
303 
nical Magazine, tab. 210, published in 
1803; and the second known kind of Dah- 
lia was introduced to our gardens, from 
Madrid, by Lady Holland, about three 
years subsequently. 
NORTH AMERICAN PLANTS, DISCOVERED 
AND INTRODUCED BY JOHN FRASER, 
BETWEEN 1785 AND 1799; AND BY 
J. FRASER, JUN., FROM 1799 To 1817. 
Agrostis Cornucopie. 
Andromeda cassineefolia, Bot. Mag. t. 970. 
— — ——-— Catesbæi, Bot. Mag. t. 1955. 
dealbata, Bot. Reg. t. 1010. 
— ferruginea. 
——  —— — floribunda, Bot. Mag. t. 1566. 
serratifolia. 
Annona pygmea. 
Aletris aurea. 
Allium cernuum, Bot. Mag. t. 1324. 
— —— reticulatum. 
Asarum arifolium, Hook. Ex. Fl. t. 40. 
Asclepias amplexicaulis. 
acuminata. 
‘Linaria. 
pedicellata. 
perfoliata. 
—— — — salviefolia. 
Azalea arborescens. 
— calendulacea, Bot. Mag. t. 1721 (£.) 
scens. 
coccinea, Bot. Mag. t. 180. 
———— Cane 
nitida. 
Bartsia coccinea. 
Befaria racemosa. 
Betula lutea. 
Blandfordia cordata. 
Buchnera pedunculata. 
Calycanthus glaucus, Bot Reg. t. 404. 
— ——— — Vevigatus, Bot. Reg. t. 481. 
Carex Fraseriana, Bot. Mag. t. 1391. 
Chaptalia tomentosa, Bot. Mag. (Tussilago 
integrifolia) t. 2297. 
Clethra scabra. 
Collinsonia ovalis. 
tuberosa. 
Commelina angustifolia. 
Convolvulus tenellus. 
Coreopsis latifolia. 
Corypha Hystrix. 
