THE FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA. 13 



he raised many of the seeds he had ji'athered, and many more were 

 cultivated in the Botanical Garden at Upsala. As stated before, 

 he published: 



En resa till Norra Amerika (A Journey to North America), in 3 volumes, 

 1853 — '61. [This has been translated into German and English, and is one of the 

 best accounts of this country at that period.] 



Norra Amerikanska farge-orter, published in 1763. 



He intended to publish a larger descriptive work on the plants 

 and animals he met with on his journey, but this was never done, 

 very likely because he had spent all his funds. All, or at least 

 most of his plants were published by Linufeus in his "Species 

 Plantarum." 



Carolus Linnaeus or Carl von Linnk was born at Rashult, 

 SmS.land, Sweden, the 13th of May (old style), 1707, and died at 

 Upsala the 10th of January, 1778. There is no need of going into 

 details of his life-historj-, for it will be given extensively over and 

 over again this year. Only a few words may be given to show his 

 work on American botany. I shall give it more extensively else- 

 where. 



He became acquainted with the North American plants from 

 the finely illustrated works of Plumier, Plukenet, Catesby, Sloane, 

 and Gronovius; also those of Petiver, Morrison, and Cornuti. 

 Through Gronovius he had a chance to see Clayton's collection. 

 Sloane's and Catesby's plants he saw on his visit to England. 

 He described himself the plants collected by Kalm. A few Amer- 

 ican plants were already under cultivation. These were all incor- 

 porated in the first edition of "Species Plantarum." He after- 

 wards received plants from Barthram and from Colden and his 

 daughter Jane. He corresponded with John Ellis, a resident in 

 the West Indies, and Dr. Gardner, who botanized in Carolina and 

 Florida. Later he purchased a set of West Indian plants collected 

 by Patrick Browne, and received a part of Jacquin's collections 

 through exchange. These were described in the 10th edition of 

 his "Systema Xatura"" and in the 2nd edition of "Species Planta- 

 rum." In all, he described about 2.000 North American plants. 



The works which in part bear on North American botanj' are: 



Species Plantarum, 1753; Edition 2, 1762 — '63. 



Systema Naturw, Ed. 10, 1758— '59. 



"Daniel Carl Solander wSiS, born the 12th of February, 1733, at 

 PiteS,, Sweden. In 1759 he moved to England, and becaiye libra- 



