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Ampdopsis qtiinquefolia of Northeast America. The five-leaved creeper transported to Europe 

 and cultivated at Paris more than five years before — the account by Cornuti pi. loo of the " edera 

 quinquefolia Canadensis : " cultivated more generally throughout Europe for ornamenting walls, it 

 has in some localities become naturalized (A. Dec): was observed by Forskal at Constantinople. 

 Westward, was received by Hooker from Lake Huron ; was observed by Michaux from Canada to 

 Virginia ; by myself, wild in the forest from 45 to 38 along the Atlantic ; by Elliot, in South Caro- 

 lina ; by Baldwin, on Bermuda and to 31 in Florida ; by Bartram, to 28 ; and by E. James, along 

 the Arkansas. 



"The same year" (Lubke and Lutrow), at Madura in Southern Hindustan, commencement of 



the great hall of the Tschultri of the temple. 



" The same year" (art de verif ), Mustafa succeeded by Amurath IV. or Murad IV., eighteenth 

 Turkish sultan. Coins of Murad IV. issued at Cairo, are figured in Marcel p. 215. 



" 1624 A. D. = 4th year of the ' thian-ki ' of Hi-tsoung, and 9th year of Thian-ming," Mantchou 

 ruler of Northern China (Chinese chron. table). To this time (as described by P. Alvarez Semedo), 

 the Chinese wore their hair : but Liao-toung being recaptured by the Mantchous, an edict was issued, 

 compelling the inhabitants to shave the head after the manner of the Mantchous. — The edict was 

 afterwards extended to the whole of China, and the Mantchou fashion becoming universal, has con- 

 tinued so to the present day. 



" The same year" (Prince, Hubbard, and Holmes), a settlement commenced on Cape Ann, and 

 a fishing-stage set up there for the Plymouth settlers. 



" In this year " (C. Francis biogr. Ell.), publication in London of " Good newes from New-Eng- 

 land " by Edward Winslow. 



" Aug. 26th " (Rymer, and Holmes), the Virginia charter having been annulled, a new commis- 

 sion for the government, issued by king James : the governor and council to be appointed during the 

 king's pleasure ; and no assembly was mentioned, nor allowed. 



L ' In this year" (A. Dec. g. b. 627), Marc. Zuer. Boxhorn publishing his " Origines gallicae." It 

 contains the " Botanologium " of John Davies, in which about a thousand plants are enumerated 

 under their Welsh and Latin names. 



"In this year" (title-page), Sir Wm. Alexander publishing his Encouragement to colonies. 

 From information collected, he describes Port Royal in Nova Scotia as having '■ land fit to be 

 laboured lying betweene " the meadows overflowed by the tide and '• the woods, which doe compasse 

 all about with very faire trees of sundry sorts, as oakes " (Quercus rubra ?), " ash " (Frarinus sam- 

 bucifolia), "playnes" {Acer saccliarinum), "maple" (Acer rub rum), "beech" (Fagus ferruginea), 

 "birch" (Betula papy raced), " cypresse " {Thuya Occidmtalis), "pine" (Strobus Americanus), 

 " and firre " (Abies bahaiuca). 



" 1625, March 27th" (Nicol. p. 340, Alsted p. 5S7 giving "26th"), James succeeded by his son 

 Charles, second king of United Britain, and a Catholic. 



" May 13th " (Chalmers, and Holmes), proclamation of king Charles ; placing Virginia under the 

 immediate direction of the crown, and ordering all patents and processes to issue in his own name. 

 Fears now began to prevail, Lest the English ecclesiastical government should be extended over the 

 colonies (Bradf.). 



"The same year" (Smith, Dougl., and Holmes), Roger Conant in removing from Nantasket to 

 Cape Ann, found a place called Naumkeak, which he judged suitable for a settlement, and sent notice 

 to his friends in England. 



Paris, — and termed "polygonatum spicatum " by Cornuti pi. 32 and 34. and "Virginian's Salomon's 

 seale " by T. Johnson (edit. Gerarde 905); described also by Morison xv. pi. 4, and Stapel. West- 

 ward, the "Virginia Salomon's seal" was seen by Josselyn 45 in New England: S. stellata, by 

 Michaux in Canada; by myself, from 47 30' on the Lower St. Lawrence to 42° along the Atlantic; 

 by Torrey, to 41° on the Hudson ; by Pursh, from Canada to the Alleghanies of Virginia; by Nut- 

 tall, from Lake Erie to the Arkansas, the Missouri as far as the Mandans, and the sources of the 

 Columbia. 



Bignonia (Tecoma) radicaus of Northeast America. The trumpet-flower, a procumbent woody 

 vine climbing by rootlets, transported to Europe and Paris as early as this date, — as appears from 

 the account of the "gelseminum ederaceum " by Cornuti pi. 103 ; described also by Morison , con- 

 tinues under cultivation for ornament ; and according to Graham has been recently introduced into 

 the gardens of Hindustan. Westward, was observed by myself wild in openings and on the margin 

 of the forest from 40° fp 38 along the Atlantic ; by Catesby i. pi. 65, and Elliot, in South Carolina; 

 by N. A. Ware, in Florida ; by Chapman, "Florida to North Carolina, and westward ;" by Nuttall, 

 and E. James, on the Arkansas ; and by Beck, on the Mississippi near St. Louis. 



