OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 893 



termed " chamaenerion Gesneri" and "lysimachia sili'quosa tertia"by Clusius hist. ii. 51, "Iysimachia 

 siliquosa glabra angustifolia " by C. Bauhin pin. 245, " chamaenerion angustifolium glabrum " by 

 Tournefort inst. 303, and known to grow from Lapland throughout middle Europe (Engl, bot pi. 

 346, Pers., and Wats.) : observed by Linnaeus in Lapland and Sweden ; by Pallas, at 67 on the Oby ; 

 and by Sibthorp. on the Bithynian Olympus. Westward, by Hooker in Iceland, and received by him 

 from Canada as far as 64 and the Rocky mountains ; Was observed by Michaux at Hudson Bay and 

 Lake Mistassiny ; by myself, frequent in New England; by Nuttall, as far as Philadelphia (Dec); 

 by Pursh, from Pennsylvania to Virginia ; and according to Chapman, grows on the " mountains of 

 North Carolina." 



Saxifraga aizoon of Subarctic climates. Described by Gesner, ii. fig. 28, — Barrelier pi. 1310, 

 Morison 12. pi. 9, Plukenet phyt. pi. 221, and known to grow on the Pyrenees and Swiss Alps as far 

 as Austria (Jacq. austr. pi. 438, Lapeyr., Pers., and A. Dec.) ; was observed by Fraas in Greece. 

 Westward, by Colmaster in Labrador (Pursh) ; and was received by Hooker from the Saskatchewan ; 

 by A. Gray, from " Upper Michigan and Wisconsin," and observed by Blake on Willoughby mountain 

 in Vermont. 



Saxifraga cespitosa of the Arctic region and mountain-summits farther South. Termed " sedu- 

 lum quod moschatella alpina lutea" by Gesner ii. fig. 31, ■ — " sedum tridactylites alpinum minus" by 

 Bauhin prodr. 131, and C. Bauhin pin. 284, " s. tridactylites alpina minor et villosa " by Tournefort 

 inst. 252, and known to grow in Lapland and on the mountains of middle Europe as far as Switzerland 

 (Engl. bot. pi. 794, Lapeyr., and Wats.) : observed by Sabine on Spitzbergen (Hook.) ; by Linnaeus, 

 on the mountains of Lapland; by Seguieri pi. 9, not far from Verona; by Sibthorp, on Delphi moun- 

 tain in Greece ; by Bieberstein, on Caucasus. Westward, is known to grow in Greenland as far as 

 Igloolik, also along the Arctic Sea to Kotzebue Sound (Hook.) ; was received by Pursh from the 

 Northwest coast. 



Saxifragra stcllaris of the Arctic region and mountain-summits farther South. The " sedulum 

 alpinum quartum " of Gesner ii. fig. 36 — may be compared: S. stellaris was observed by Linnaeus fl. 

 pi. 2. in Lapland, and is known to grow as far as the mouth of the Lena (Dec.) and Lake Baikal 

 (Ladeb.) ; also from Sweden to Southern Ireland and Wales (Fries, and Mackay), on the Pyrenees, 

 at "seven thousand feet" on the Sierra Nevada (Boiss.), on mount Rotundo in Corsica (Gren. and 

 Godr.), on the Swiss Alps, and mountains of the Black forest (Koch), of Transylvania (Baumg.), and 

 of Thrace and Macedonia (Griseb., and A. Dec.). Westward, was observed by Hooker on Iceland, 

 and received from Spitzbergen, Greenland, and Labrador. 



Solatium pseudo-capsicum of " Madeira." Transported to Europe, described by Gesner hort. f. 

 282 — (Spreng.), Dodoens pempt. 718, and C. Bauhin pin. 61 : cultivated for its ornamental bright-red 

 cherry-like berries, and has become naturalized at the base of the Pyrenees (herb. Req., Dun., Dec, 

 and A. Dec); was observed by Chaubard in the Peloponnesus, escaped from cultivation; by Delile, 

 in the gardens of Egypt; but according to Persoon is wild on Madeira. By European colonists, was 

 carried to Northeast America, where it continues in greenhouses ; to Austral Africa, and thence to 

 the environs of Bombay (Lush, and Graham). 



" 1562, Apr. 30th, Thursday" (transl. Hackit in soc Hakl.), under instructions from (the French 

 admiral Coligny), Jean Ribault with a colony of Protestants arriving on the American coast not far 

 from " 29 30'." In the morning "on the first of May," he entered with boats a great river (the St. 

 John's) : the natives naked, having "the fore part of their body and armes " painted with "azure, red 

 and blacke," and trimming themselves with an " herbe like unto mosse, whereof the cedar trees, and 

 all other trees, bee alwayes couered" {Ti/landsia usneoides) : they presented "mulberies" (Morus 

 rubra), "raspis" (Rubus villostis), "and such other fruites as they founde ready by the way: " in the 

 forests were "palme trees" {Chamarops palmetto), " cypresse " (Taxodium distichum) "and cedars" 

 (Cupressus thuyoides), "bayes y" highest and greatest" (Laurus Carolinensis), "grapes" {litis vul- 

 pind) the vines growing "to toppes of okes " {Quercus prinus) "and other trees that be of a won- 

 derfull greatnesse and height;" also "walnut trees" (Juglans nigra), " hasell trees'' {Corvlns 

 Americana), " cheritrees, very faire and great " (Cerasus serotina) ; the natives brought " rootes like 

 vnto rinbabe, which they haue in great estimation, and make thereof a potion of medecine " (. . . . ), 

 also "some small spices like vnto vire " {Benzoin odoriferzim). Sailing thence Northward, finding 

 "euerv where the highest and greatest firtrees y' can be seene " (Pinus palustris and P. tceda), "very 

 well smelling, and where out might bee gathered, with cutting the only bark, as much rosen, turpen- 

 tine, and frakesence, as men would desire," on " the 27th " he entered with his ships port Royall, find- 

 ing it " one of the fayrest and greatest hauens of the worlde : " here were many " pepertrees, the pepper 

 yet greene and not ready to bee gathered " (Celtis ?) ; and leaving Albert de la Pierria, the first of 

 "thirtie" volunteers, "gentlemen, souldiers, and marriners," he departed "June nth." — Dissensions 

 afterwards arising among the colonists, some were slain, and those remaining built a small vessel, 

 calking it with the "kind of mosse" growing on trees {Tillandsia usneoides), and abandoned the 

 country (Holmes, and J. W. Jones in soc. Hakl.). 



