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flore albo" of Canada (Eupatorium ageratoides) pi. 21; "verbena urticaefolia flore violaceo" of 

 Canada ( Verbena hastata ?) pi. 23 ; " polygonatum ramosum flore luteo majus " ( Uvularia grandi- 

 flord) pi. 39; "hedysarum triphyllum Canadense " (Desmodium Canadense) pi. 45; "fumaria sili- 

 quosa sempervirens " (Corydalis glaucd) pi. 58; "fumaria tuberosa insipida" {Dielytra Canadensis) 

 pi. 126; ''aster luteus alatus" of North America (Helenhtm autumnale) pi. 63. "asteriscus latifolius 

 autumnalis" {Aster cordifolius) pi. 65; " aconitum baccis niveis et rubris " {Actcea Americana) pi. 

 77; "apocynon minus rectum Canadense" (Asclepias incamata) pi. 93; "trifolium asphaltion Cana- 

 dense (....) pi. 13 j ; "pimpinella maxima Canadensis" (Sanguisorba Canadensis) pi. 174; "cere- 

 folium latifolium Canadense," esculent, and perishing in the third year ( . . . ) pi. 177 ; " thalictrum 

 Canadense" (7". Cotnuti) pi. 187; "eupatoria foliis enulas " {Eupatorium purpureum) pi. 191; 

 " calceolus Marianus Canadensis " (Cypripedium spectabile) pi. 205 ; and " herbatum Canadensium, 

 sive panaces moschatum" ( . . . ) p. 212; Plantago cucullata 163, Smilacina racemosa 37, Scutel- 

 laria peregrina 129. 



Crambe Hispanica of the West Mediterranean countries. An annual received by Cornuti pi. 

 148 from Spain and termed "rapistrum maximum monospermum," — described also by Morison iii. 

 pi. 13 ; known to grow in maritime situations in Spain (Dec. syst ), also on Sardinia (Moris), Sicily 

 (Guss.), and observed by Chaubard among rubbish at Modon and Pylos in the Peloponnesus : received 

 by Achille Richard from Gabdia in Tigre in Northeastern Abyssinia (A. Dec). 



"In this year" (inscript, and Krapftrav.), Francisco de Xeixas de Cabreira appointed to the com- 

 mand of the fortress at Mombasa. "He reduced into submission" the coast of Malindi, and "made 

 the kings of Tondo, Mandra, Lazieva, and Jaca, tributaries : " — "visited Pat^ and Sio with a pun- 

 ishment never before witnessed 'in India, levelling the wall's thereof to the ground : " " imposed a 

 fine on the Muzungulos, and punished Pemba and its rebel people, killing the petty king : " and at the 

 end of four years rebuilt the fortress. 



" 1636 A. D. = 1st year of Tsoung-te," Mantchou ruler of Northern China (Chinese chron. 

 table, and Pauth. p. 417). Suspension bridges, some of iron, in use in China and Thibet; such struc- 

 tures being as yet unknown in Europe (Pauth. 234). 



"In this year" (Spreng.), after the death of Michael Boym, Jesuit missionary in China, pub- 

 lication of his Flor. Sinens. 



"In this year" (Relat. du Groenl. 227), by the Greenland Company of Copenhagen, two vessels 

 sent "to that part of New Greenland which is on the coast of" Davis' Gulf. While trading with the 

 natives, a sea-unicorn (Monoceros unicornu) was observed on the "grass" (Zostera) which "the 

 tide had left dry," these animals it was said allowing themselves to be temporarily stranded : it was 

 immediately attacked by a crowd of natives, killed, and its "horn" sold to the Danes. 



"The same year" (Hutchinson, and Holmes), Roger Williams finding himself excluded from 

 both Massachusetts and Plymouth Colonies, and land being offered by Narraganset chiefs, com- 

 menced a settlement with several of his friends at Mooshausick ; changing the name to "Provi- 

 dence." — The beginning of the fourth important town in New England, and of the separate State of 

 Rhode Island. 



" The same year " (Hubbard, and Holmes), a murder by aboriginals of Block Island, who sought 

 refuge among the Pequots : giving rise to the first serious war against a native Tribe. — The Pequots 

 were in the following year broken up and dispersed. 



"In this year" (Stirling, and W. W. Hunter), a daughter of the emperor Shah Jahan healed by 

 surgeon Gabriel Boughton. As a reward, the English were allowed to trade in Bengal and Orissa 

 free of all duties. 



Virginia ; and according to A. Gray, grows from "New England to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and 

 northward," a "popular aromatic." 



Angelica lucida of Northeast America. Transported to Europe is termed "angelica lucida 

 Canadensis" by Cornuti pi. 197, — described also by Morison ix. pi. 3, and Jacquin hort. iii. pi. 24: 

 Westward, was received by Muhlenberg from Carolina and the Cherokee country, and according to 

 Pursh tows in Pennsylvania. The "thaspium actaeifolium" of Nuttall, or nondo, observed by Short 

 in Kentucky, and growing according to A. Gray in "rich woods, Virginia, Kentucky, and southward 

 along the mountains," may be compared. 



Solidaao sempervirens of Northeast America. A tall golden-rod, transported to Europe termed 

 by Cornuti pi. 169, "solidago maxima Americana" three to four cubits high, its stem smooth and 

 somewhat purplish ; described also by Morison vii. pi. 23, and Plukenet aim. pi. 235, the leaves 

 according to Linnaeus "subcarnosis tota hyeme persistentibus " (Pers.). Westward, observed by 

 Michaux in Canada and New York (Pers.) ; by Pursh, from Canada to Pennsylvania; by A. Gray, 

 sometimes "eio'ht feet" high, in "less brackish swamps, with thinner and elongated linear-lanceolate 

 leaves ; " by Elliot, in South Carolina ; by Baldwin, as far as 30 in Florida. 



