782 REPORT OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



John Bartram, however, transmitted quite a number of speci- 

 mens to Linnaeus, which, although usually credited to Pennsyl- 

 vania, must have come from across the Delaware in New Jersey. 



The first American botanist to name and describe additional 

 species on the plan established by Linnaeus was Thomas Walter,* 

 who, in 1788, published a volume on the Plants oi Carolina, in 

 which appear forty New Jersey species with which Linnaeus was 

 unacquainted. After him came Andre Michaux,t the French 

 botanist, who, after Linnaeus, was the author of the largest 

 number of our New Jersey plant names. Michaux traveled 

 widely in America, and in his Flora (1803) are published 117 

 species of New Jersey plants unknown to Linnaeus or Walter. 

 Apparently none of these, however, was discovered within our 

 limits. 



Rev. Henry Muhlenberg, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, probably 

 the most learned American botanist of his time, is authority for 

 42 of the species mentioned in the preceding pages. These were 

 mainly published in a posthumous work on Grasses and Sedges 

 or in Willdenow's Species Plantarum, from specimens sent him by 

 Muhlenberg. The latter published a Catalogue of North Ameri- 

 can Plants in 1813, but as descriptions are lacking and as death 

 prevented him from publishing the full descriptive work that 

 he had contemplated, most of the names here proposed rest as 

 mere nomina nuda, with no' place in scientific nomenclature. 



Of the early botanists who did more or less actual collecting 

 in the Coastal Plain of New Jersey, Pursh is responsible for 

 33 of our species; Nuttall for 29; Rafinesque for 17 and Torrey 

 (sometimes in conjunction with Gray) for 37. 



Only ICX3 of the 1401$ species listed in the foregoing pages 

 were originally described from southern New Jersey, which 

 emphasizes the fact that most of the early American botanical 

 works were based upon collections made in other States — espe- 

 cially in Virginia and the Carolinas. Furthermore, although many 

 botanists have explored the New Jersey Pine Barrens in subse- 

 quent years and many collections have been made, there has 



*Cf. Brainerd Bull. Charleston (S. C.) Mus. III. 33, for biography. 

 t Cf. Hot. Gazette VIII, 187 for biography. 

 t Cf . Bottom^ of p. 806. 



