OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 915 



" In this year (=2oth of wan-ly," geogr. Chin., and Klapr.), Corea invaded and in great part 

 conquered by the Japanese under Fide-yosi. 



In this year (=" 1595 — 3 years " of Barents, Purchas v. iii. 518), on the North coast of Asia, 

 Gielhsidi, sometimes visited by sea from Pechora, won by the Russians from the Tartars. 



" In this year" (Spreng., and Winckler), Adamus Zaluzani publishing his Method, herbar. 



" In this year " (J. E. Smith, and Spreng.), Columna in his " twenty-fifth " year publishing his 

 Phytobas., enumerating Primula Paliuuri pi. 5, Scabiosa Palaestina pi. 22, Campanula graminifolia 

 pi. 34, and Ceraslmm repens pi. 31. 



Stacliys annua of the Tauro-Caspian countries. A weed called in Italy "herba Turca" or "herba 

 stregona " sorceress herb (Targ.), described by Columna phyt. pi. 9 — ■ (Spreng.), and observed 

 by C. Bauhin pin. 233 already in cultivated ground in central Europe : termed " betonica arvensis 

 annua flore ex albo flavescente " by Tournefort inst. 203, "betonica annua" by Linnaeus, and at the 

 present day occurring in and about cultivated ground from France to Russia (Jacq. austr. pi. 360, 

 Pers., and A. Dec.) : observed by Bertoloni in Italy, in one or two instances outside of cultivated 

 ground ; by Sibthorp, on mount Athos and near Constantinople ; by Bieberstein, in waste places and 

 grain-fields in the Crimea; by C. A. Meyer, in cultivated ground on the Talysch mountains. In Bri- 

 tain "from 1830 " has made its appearance in grain-fields in Kent (Engl. bot. pi. 2669, and Bab.). 



" : 593> June 12th" (Hackl. soc ), sailing of Richard Hawkins. On Saint Annes islands 



in Lat. 22 30' off Brazil, he met with purslane j the natives along the coast having canoes carrying 

 seventy or eighty men. Passing through the Straits of Magellan, he gave the natives " lamskinnes," 

 and at Coquimbo procured skins of the " chinchilla "(....). 



Cacalia Kleinii of Western Hindustan ? The cabbage-tree of English colonists is called in the 

 environs of Bombay "gao-zaban" (Graham) ; and in this year a branch sent by Garetus to Clusius 

 — (exot. i. 5) : the plant is described also by Dillenius elth. pi. 54, and Linnaeus hort. cliff. ; and was 

 seen by Clot-Bey in the gardens of Egypt. In its wild state is said to grow on the Canary Islands 

 (Pers.) ; but was observed by Gibson, and Graham, in Western Hindustan, " in high rocky situations " 

 on the Deccan, " used in medicine " by the natives. 



Amaryllis formosissima of Mexico. Roots of the jacobea lily procured in this year by Simon 

 de Tovar from a ship from South America, and sent to Clusius and Bernard Paludanus — (Beck- 

 mann) : the plant is described also by Rudbeck 2 f. 10, and Dillenius elth. pi. 162 ; and continues in 

 greenhouses; was introduced in 1835 into the environs of Bombay, and afterwards in 1837 "from 

 Egypt" (Graham). Westward, according to Descourtilz, has become seemingly wild in the forests 

 of the Antilles, but came originally from Mexico. 



Polyanthes tuberosa of Peru. The tuberose, called in Egypt " zymbyl " (....), at Bombay 

 "gool-shubo" or "cheree," at Cochin by the Portuguese colonists "fulla pipa" pipe-flower (Graham), 

 in Burmah " hnen-ben " (Mason), at Manila " azucena " (Blanco) ; and as early at least as this year, 

 brought from the East Indies by Simon de Tovar and roots sent to Bernard Paludanus, — who pub- 

 lished a description in Li nschoten's Voyage (Beckm.) : also as transported to Europe, is described 

 by Morison ii. pi. 12, and Linnaeus, and from Europe was carried to Northeast America, where it has 

 become a favourite in gardens : was observed by Forskal in gardens at Constantinople ; by him, 

 Hasselquist, Delile, and Clot-Bey, in the gardens of Egypt ; by myself, in Yemen, the flowers brought 

 to market at Mocha ; by Graham, " common in gardens " around Bombay ; by Roxburgh in Eastern 

 Hindustan; by Mason, "exotic" in Burmah; by Rumphius v. pi. 98, in the Malayan archipelago, 

 enumerated as introduced ; by Blanco, on the Philippines. Seems therefore to have been brought in 

 the first Spanish voyages across the Pacific, and was seen by Ruiz and Pavon iii. 66 wild in Peru. 



"Dec. 17th" (Hakl., and Holmes), Henry May in a French ship wrecked on Bermuda. — A bark 

 was built of " cedar " (Juniperus Bermudiana) ; and at the end of " nearly five months," plac.ng on 

 board " thirteen live turtles for provisions," the party left the island. 



" The same year " (Spreng.), arrival of Hernandez in Mexico, meeting with Salvia leonuroides 

 103, Piper geniculaium 126, Commelyna tuberosa 253, Ficus citrifolia 81-2, Toumefortia bicolor 292, 

 Convolvulus {Batatas) littoralis 256, Lobelia acuminata 210, Cerbera Thevetia 443, Lisianthus exal- 

 tatus 233, Ery?igium aquaticum 222, Melastoma fragile 413, Bocconia frutescens 158, Cactus (Epi- 

 fihyllum) phyllanthus 392 and 457, Passiflora perfoliata 301, Geranium Carolinianum 293, Carohnea 

 insimis 68 Achania mollis 117, Stevia punctata 360, Gnaphalium Domingense 232, Epidendrum 

 bifidum 368 Aristolochia arborescens 42. Calopogon pulchellus 283, Acalypha cuspidata 390, Acacia 

 PortoricenHs 5 S, Mimosa comigera 86, and Mirabilis longiflora 170. — He remained there "seven 



years untill 1600." . , 



Hura crepitans of the West Indies and neighbouring portions of Tropical America. The sand- 

 box tree described by Hernandez 88 —and from transported specimens by Clusius exot. 47 (Spreng.), 

 and Linnams hort. cliff, pi. 34- Westward, was observed by Aublet, and Martius in Guayana; ,s 

 known to grow also in the West Indies and Mexico, its milky juice producing "blindness a few days 



