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tinctoria, which has oblong edible fruits, Ayac, in Louisiana 
4. Cocos, Etymon wrong: comes from Coco, palm lg 4 
the Haytian language. Introduced by Co lumbus in 1494: see 
Acosta. Having restored the Haytian language, by collecting 
800 words from early travellers, for my History of American 
Nations, I have found many etymons; I shall mention a few:— 
r Niames; Potatoes, Batatas; Manioc, Juco; Mangrove, 
Mangle; Ceiba or Cotton rie Ceiba; Guava, Guayava; Pimento, 
Pimento; Guiacum, Gua Mance a, sane Cassava, 
Cazabi ; _ hogany, eee Laces 0, Copal, and many more. 
Bh. o genera, Bellis L. and Belis ue This last my 
6. art and Lari«. Why Salisbury quoted instead of Tourne- 
ie: 1700; or Adanson, 1750; or Jussieu, 1789 ? 
Gymnocladus, Our [Kentucky] coffee tree, 80 ft. high in the 
foes quite straight ; = catel for coffee. This fine tree called a 
tree, a shrub, and a vine at o 
38. Juniperus vir a "the figure has large round berries; 
ours has ee ovoid warty berries. "The figure of J. bermudiana 
more like 
3 ne Fert um virginicum is Melanthium virginicum, by description 
an 
O The asters of North America are a chaos as yet. We have 
100 species: you have increased the confusion. Your Krigeron 
carolinianum is certainly an Aster by figure, with few rays. A. T'’ra- 
descanti is differ en from ours. Aster aryophylius, three rays in 
description ; five rays in figure. I have prepared a work on this 
genus for ont, fa divided into many subgenera oF = or 
double rays, entire or toothed, seeds smooth or villo Cc. 
D. Don has already grouped Aster argophyllus and the lous related 
eae into a genus named Haztonia.—J. D. 
41. Soli The species of North America are in the ame 
confusion as those of Aster. The figures of your S. bicolor, odora, 
mexicana, flexicaulis, do not correspond with er description nor with 
our species. S. flexicaulis is our 8. latifolia, I am 8 
oa uke on this genus, by seeds caacili or hairy, rays few or 
many, 
42. Nena americanum Decandolle is my Negundium (1808) 
Ffraxineum. e @ second species in the 
43, Nyssa. All aia pre they are all pe with us. 
44, eet ia, name too like Cucurbita. It is my Phialospora. 
us Pheri 1814, for Boletus, with irregular cells, 
omitted ; mds many other — of my pamphlet, 1814. [Précis des 
Découvertes pomclogiy ues, 
46. Piper. ‘* None out of tropies.’’ Wrong: a species, P. lepto- 
stachyum, found in Florida, lat. 28°, by Mr. Ware; described by 
Nutita. 
“7. ‘I have discovered and described thirty-four species of 
Trillium I my Medical Flora); also 
48. 80 species and 100 varieties of native North American 
