OF ACCOMPANYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 96 1 



E. pentanthum 481, Angelica montana 101, Caucalis elongata 303, Athamantha verticillosa 437, 

 Oenanthe apiifolia 124, Statice angustifolia 876, Armeria fasciculata 1361, A. cephalotes 1360, A. 

 humilis 1362, Linn >n tenue 891, 5«7/a monophyllos 1552, Ornithogalum roccense 1596, O. chloran- 

 thu7ii 1595, Leucoium trichophyllum 1572, Polygonatum ambiguum 11 75, Colchicum tesselatum 1525, 

 Rumex thyrsoides 18, A lisma trinervium 1 166, Diantkus attenuates 290, Silene arenaria 921,5'. 

 sabuletorum 922, 5". psammitis 923, Ly thrum meonanthum 936, G^//»z Atlanticum 286, Cirfaj zwrt- 

 cilliflorus 371, Delphinium pentagynum 26, Linaria dealbata 457, Z. mullipitnctata 880, Z. amethy- 

 stma 881, Z. linogrisea 882, Z. bipunctata 883, Z. Lusttanica 885, Antirrhinum meonanthum 108, 

 Bartsia maxima 57, Euphrasia scabra 496, Z. filifolia 495, Cochlearia acaulis 377, Cheiranthus 

 longisiliquis 860, Malva tuberculata 55, Lathyrus helodes 74.0. 837, Genista triacanthos 543, Astra- 

 galus cymbaecarpos 171, An thy His hamosa 106, Omithopus sativus 1089, (9. repandus 1281, Hyperi- 

 cum hnariaefolium 765, //. tomentosum 768, Cichorium divaricatum 355, Helminthia spinosa 230, 

 Scorzonera multifida 1295, i\ pinifolia 1294, Anthemis fuscata 323, Centaurea uliginosa 771, C. 

 polyacantha 774, C. limbata 775, <4«nz.r anthropomorpha 1592, Quercus phellodrys 787, Mercurialis 

 elliptica 1025. 



" In the reign of Cliun-tchi " (according to Chinese historians, Pauth. 433), the population of 

 China amounting to " 14,883,858 families." 



" 1662 A. D." (Chalm., and Holmes), by the assembly of Maryland, a law for establishing a mint : 

 being, with one in Massachusetts already noticed, the only laws in the country for coining money — 

 until the Revolution. 



" Aug. 24th : ' (Neal, and Holmes), in England, enforcement of the Act of uniformity in religion : 

 by which about " two thousand " dissenting clergymen were ejected, without provision for themselves 

 or families. Many, for exercising their ministry in private, died in prison; but a considerable number 

 found an asylum in New England. 



" In this year" (Klapr. mem. i. 324), the Dutch driven out of Formosa and the Pescadores by 

 the Chinese pirate Tching-tching-koung or Koxinga ; — who with his successors held possession 

 twenty-one years. 



" The same year " (Chinese chron. table, and Pauth. 433), Chun-tchi succeeded as emperor by 

 his child Khang-hi, under the guardianship of " four regents." One of their first measures was the 

 expulsion of eunuchs from the palace and all posts of honour and dignity. The abandonment of the 

 seacoast was also ordered by the regents : on account of the depredations of Koxinga, the pirate- 

 chief of Formosa. 



" In this year" (Spreng.), Georg a Turre, after visiting Crete, publishing his Cat. hort. Padua, 

 enumerating "rubia arborescens cretica" Ernodea montana, and "petroselinum creticum radice 

 tuberosa " Bunium ferulaceum. 



" 1663, Jan. 26th" (Josselyn, and Holmes), a severe earthquake throughout Canada, New Eng- 

 land, and the New Netherlands. 



" July 27th," Josselyn on his Second voyage arriving in the harbor below Boston. He proceeded 

 to Black point "six mile to the Eastward of Saco," * — and remained in New England until "Oct. 

 10th, 1671." 



During the governorship of Berkeley (Spreng. gesch.), John Banister in company with William 

 Vernon and David Krieg, arriving in Virginia, meeting with Xyris bulbosa (Ray pi. 2), "cyperus mili- 

 aceus marilandicus" Trichophorum eriophorum, Elymus Canadensis (Ray suppl. 599), Lechea minor 

 (R. s. 132), Houstonia carulea (R. s. 502), Hedyotis purpurea (R. s. 262), Plantago Virginica (R. 

 hist. ii. 188), Onosmodiitm Virginianum (R. s. 272), Phlox pilosa (R. a. 490), Spi^elia Marylandica 

 (R. dendr. 32), Ceanothus Americanus (R. dendr. 69), Euonymus Americanus. (R. d. 57), Sanicula 

 Marylandica (R. s. 260), Cicuta bulbifera (R. s. 260), Oenothera pumila (R. s. 416), Gaultheria 



* Platanus Occidentalis of the Mississippi and its tributaries. The button-wood or American 

 sycamore possibly brought and planted by the natives in Eastern New England : observed by Jos- 

 selyn voyag. 70, "a stately tree, growing here and there in valleys, not like to any trees in Europe, 

 having a smooth bark, of a dark brown colour, the leaves like great maple, in England called sycamor, 

 but larger : " — "a button-wood tree which measured nine yards in girth," is mentioned by Paul 

 Dudley writing from New England in 1726 (phil. trans, xxxiii. 129, and arch. Am. iv. 125): P. 

 Occidentalis was observed by F.. A. Michaux as far East as Portland, and from 44 on Lake Cham- 

 plain throughout the Western States, but rare in the lower portion of Carolina and Georgia; by 

 myself, not clearly indigenous along the Atlantic in New England and our Middle States, but wild 

 alonf the banks of the Ohio ; by Catesby i. pi. 56, and Elliot, in South Carolina ; by Bartram, as far 

 as 30 in Florida ; by Darby 77, to 31 in Louisiana : by Nuttall, at 34° on the Arkansas ; by Long's 

 Exp , as far up the Mississippi as 41° ; and by E. James, on the Missouri and the Canadian. 



