OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 903 



"June 5th " (Hackl. soc, Churchill coll., and Holmes), to avoid being intercepted, Drake pro- 

 ceeded North, anchored in " Lat. 43 ," and called this portion of the continent "Albion." He next 

 followed the coast Southward, and on the " 17th " anchored in a large bay in " 38 30' : " a native in a 

 canoe brought a basket made of rushes {Scirpus lacustris) filled with an "herbe which they called 

 tabah " ( . . . . ) ; in the course of other interviews he ascertained, that the men for the most part 

 go naked, while the women make a loose garment of a kind of bulrushes and "kembing" it after the 

 manner of hemp (cincture of Apocynuni) ; the natives having quantities of the finest down from an 

 herb much like our lettuce (....), also a root called "petah," of which they make a kind of meal 

 and eat raw ( . . . . ) ; the country containing very large fat deer {American elk, Cervus wapiti). 

 Thence he sailed Westward across the Pacific, the Malayan Archipelago, — Indian Ocean, and up 

 the Atlantic to England ; completing the Second Circumnavigation of the Globe "Sept. 26th, 1580," 

 in " two yeares ten moneths and some few odde daies beside." 



"1580 A. D." (Spreng.), Alpinus arriving in Egypt, meeting with Bunias spinosa exot. 200. — ■ 

 He remained "three years." 



Cordia crenata of Tropical Asia ? The " sebesten sylvestris " of Alpinus pi. 8 — is referred here 

 by Delile : C. crenata was observed by Forskal, and Delile, in the gardens of Egypt, and is described 

 as a small tree called "mokhayet roumy;" as though brought from Constantinople.* 



"Between 1580-90 A. D." (Jap. centen. comm. 60), Gorodayu Shonsui returning from China, 

 where he had studied "this branch of trade," brought the art of making porcelain to Japan. 



" 1581 A. D.= 18th year of the cycle" (Pauth. 411), arrival in China of the first Christian mis- 

 sionary, the Jesuit P. Michael Rogerius. 



"The same year" (S. F. Haven in archaeol. Amer. iv. 280), a number of eminent English mer- 

 chants incorporated for trade with Turkey. — A perpetual charter was granted them by king James 

 "in 1605 : " and under the name of "the Levant or Turkey company," the corporation continues in 

 existence to the present clay. 



" In this year" (Spreng., and Winckler), Lobel publishing his Kruydtboeck and Icones, enumer- 

 ating Gymnadenia viridis obs. 90, " colus jovis " ic. 557 Salvia gluti/iosa, JVardus stricta ic. 90, 

 Arrhenantherum bulbosum ic. 23, Ave?ia nuda ic. 32, Plantago subulata ic. 439, Potyenemum erina- 

 ceum ic. 468, Omphalodes verna ic. 577, Symphytum tuberosum ic. 584, Verbascum yirgatum ic. 564, 

 Bunium aromaticum ic. 724, Myrrhis aurea ic. 735, Linum strictum ic. 411, L. campanulatum ic. 414, 

 Tulipa suaveolens ic. 127, Scilla hlio-hyacinthus ic. ior, Allium carinaium ic. 156, Juncus aquaiicus 

 ic. 12, Lusula campestris ic. 15, Triglochin maritimum ic. 17, Alisma damasonium ic. 301, A. ranun- 

 culoides ic. 300, Rhododendron hirsutum ic. 367, Saxifraga Burseriana ic. 375, Dianthus prolifer ic. 

 449, D. deltoides ic. 444, Silene conoidea ic. 338, Silene maritima ic. 337, Cereus Peru-uianus ic. 2. 25, 

 Paeonia hiimilis\ ic. 683, Digitalis ferruginea ic. 573, Cochlearia Anglica ic. 294, Alyssum spinosi/m 

 ic. 217, A. campestre ic. 220, I'ella pseudo-cytisus ic. 2. 49, Erysimum diffusum ic. 205, Erodium 

 gruinum ic. 662, Ononis rotundifolia ic. 2. 73, Cytisus argenteus ic. 2. 41, Astragalus stella ic. 2. 95, 



* Antennaria margaritacea of North America and Kamtchatka. Called in Britain everlasting 

 flower (Prior), "gnaphalium americanum" by Clusius, who in this year received it from England ; 

 where it became naturalized before the days of Ray; was known to the Bauhins only as a culti- 

 vated plant, but has since been found seemingly wild in various parts of Europe (Haller, Allion., and 

 A. Dec). Westward, "live forever a kind of cud-weed" was seen by Josselyn rar. 55 in New Eng- 

 land : A. margaritacea, by Lapylaie from Lat. 49 in Newfoundland ; by myself, frequent from 48 

 on the Lower St. Lawrence to 42 along the Atlantic ; by Torrey, to 41 on the Hudson ; by Chapman, 

 in the " Upper districts of North Carolina, and northward ; '' by Long's Expedition ii., at Rainy Lake 

 (Schw.) ; was received by Torrey from Oregon ; by Gmelin, from Bering's Island and Kamtchatka. 



+ Aquilegia Canadensis of Northeast America. The Canadian Columbine transported to Europe 

 described by Lobel ic. 26, — Cornuti pi. 60, Morison iii. 12. 2. f. 4, and Miller pi. 47. Westward, 

 " columbines, of a flesh-colour, growing upon rocks," were seen by Josselyn 46 in New England : 

 A. Canadensis is known to grow from Hudson Bay and 55 throughout Canada (Hook.) ; was observed 

 by Michaux from Canada to the Alleghanies of Carolina; by myself, on rocky hills throughout New 

 England ; by A. Grav, "common " in central New York; by Schweinitz, at 36 in Upper Carolina ; 

 by Croom, near Newbern ; by Elliot, on the Alleghanies of Carolina and Georgia; by Chapman, in 

 "rocky woods, West Florida and northward in the upper districts ; " by Beck, as far as the Missis- 

 sippi near St. Louis. . 



Limnanthemum lacunosum of Northeast America. An aquatic with small floating Nymphsea- 

 like leaves, and the " lutea minor " found by Lobel p. 258 in the Thames, — may be compared : also 

 as transported to Europe, L. lacunosum is described by Ventenat (Steud.). Westward, according to 

 A Gray <tows in Maine and Northern New York ; has been observed by myself frequent in lakes 

 and slow-moving water from 43° to 38 along the Atlantic ; by Pursh, from New Jersey to Carolina ; 



